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The artist created the lithographs at the New York Academy of Art during his tenure as artist in residence at the Quin hotel. In 2014, Blek le Rat exhibited 3 large-scale original paintings and an edition of 25 unique monotypes with lithography in a setting that bridges these traditional spaces-the Quin hotel in New York City-as part of the hotel's Quin Arts program. The exhibition entitled 'Le Ciel Est Bleu, La Vie Est Belle' (The sky is blue, life is beautiful), featured wooden panels, canvas, screen-print, and photographs, tracing the artist's oeuvre from the early 1980s to the present.Д«lek le Rat has nonetheless expressed preference for the streets over galleries, stating the integrity of an artist is to be seen by as many people as possible, not being sold or recognized in a museum. Д«lek also had an exhibition in December 2009 at the Metro Gallery in Melbourne, a centre of street art in Australia. It included paintings, silkscreen, and three-dimensional artwork, as well as photography from his wife, Sybille Prou. His American gallery debut took place at Subliminal Projects Gallery in Los Angeles in 2008. He participated in the Cans Festival in 2008, which featured outdoor street stencil painting in Waterloo, London. exhibition in London at the Leonard Street Gallery.

In October 2003, Blek le Rat had his first solo U.K. Hugely influential to the present generation of street artists the importance of Blek's work should not be underestimated as this quote from Banksy suggests: 'Every time I think I've painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well.

Influence on and opinion of Banksy Д«ritish graffiti artist Banksy and Blek have expressed mutual desire for collaboration in 2011, Blek was seen adding to a mural begun the previous year by Banksy in the Mission District, San Francisco.

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In 2006 he began his series of images representing the homeless, which depict them standing, sitting, or lying on sidewalks, in attempts to bring attention to what he views as a global problem. Many of his pieces are pictorials of solitary individuals in opposition to larger, oppressive groups. He has had a great influence on today's graffiti-art and ' guerilla-art' movements, the main motivation of his work being social consciousness and the desire to bring art to the people. From that point on, he has worked exclusively with pre-stenciled posters, citing the speedier application of the medium to walls, as well as lessened punishment should he be caught in the act. 'Ballerina' by Blek le Rat at the 941 Geary Gallery, San FranciscoДЇrench authorities identified Blek in 1991 when he was arrested while stencilling a replica of Caravaggio's Madonna and Child, with the connection to Blek and his artwork being made by police. Blek's oldest preserved street art graffito, a 1991 replica of Caravaggio's Madonna di Loreta, which he dedicated to his future wife Sybille, was rediscovered behind posters on a house wall in Leipzig, Germany, in 2012. In 1985, he was on the first meeting of the graffiti and urban art movement in Bondy (France), on the VLP's. He also recognised the influence of Canadian artist Richard Hambleton, who painted large-scale human figures in the 1980s. Initially influenced by the early graffiti-art of New York City after a visit in 1971, he chose a style which he felt better suited Paris, due to the differing architecture of the two cities. His name originates from the comic book Blek le Roc, using 'rat' as an anagram for 'art'.

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He described the rat as 'the only free animal in the city', and one which 'spreads the plague everywhere, just like street art'. The iconic stencils of rats by Blek le RatД«lek began his artwork in 1981, painting stencils of rats on the walls of Paris streets.