HONET

Paris | France

HONET - east Europe traveller, graffiti bomber and artis at the same time, reconizable for clean graphic characters of hooligans or russian soldiers.




















HONET - interview
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1. Could you please tell us something about your long career of graff writer and artist? Did you studied any art school?

I studied "economy" (?) but I was most of time outside than at school, doing tags on the metro or messing around... after that I've been in the army for two years ! I never learnt anything about art but the only thing I know is Graffiti !

2. You travel around Europe and it seems you like to go far east. Also from some of your images is evident that you like the aesthetics of old communist times. Why are you so interested in that?

Probably because I was educated by my grand-parents who were both communists and they were always telling me stories about east countries and Russia. They travelled a lot in those areas. But also maybe because those countries are full of energies and new freedoms compare to our lazy western ones...

3. You are well know in graffiti world for all the trains you painted, but you also paint murals or canvases with different
motives-mostly people, characters painted in clean graffic style. Do you feel any border between the world of galleries and the world of letters and images painted outside mostly by night?


There is a direct link in between all the things I'm doing: firstly it's about "having fun" and then, being "sometimes" creative! I like adventures. Painting a train at night is an adventure but doing a show in a gallery is also a kind of adventure and until it's exciting me, I'm doing it !

4. Living the livestyle of graffiti brings many stories. Please mention one you like.

Sure I have many stories. Just to stay in the same idea: I spend my life dreaming about "going to Moscow" cause it was something what seems to be a crazy and impossible adventure (because of visas, rumours, etc...) And now, in some way because of graffiti, I've been there 3 times in two years, I did there some crazy graffiti actions and I'll probably go there again this summer. I have lots of contacts there and one of my best friend now is a Russian/French guy living in Paris, so it seems that the "Russian way of living" became my everyday way of life !

5. You have been in Praha couple of times. What do you like most in our city? Do you have any spot you want to return?

Last time I was there was with some German friends and one of them brought me to an old restaurant where nothing changed from the communist time... I don't remember where it was but I will ask and I will return there !


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