LE MUR Luxembourg

Spike

The "LE MUR Luxembourg" urban art adventure continues with a new piece by Luxembourg Artist Spike, who will be taking over the façade of the Lëtzebuerg City Museum beginning this Friday, 21 November.

Since the mid-1990s, Spike has constantly been conquering new ground. Rooted in traditional graffiti and wildstyle, his early years set the stage for a bold shift in his approach at the dawn of the 2000s. Still basing his pieces on the letters S-P-I-K-E, he maintained the elaborated structure of his letters but pared them down to their basic skeleton. They thus become graphic shapes, and are used mostly in monochrome.  

This evolution led the artist, who trained as a graphic designer, to move away from traditional, visible walls and seek out atypical surfaces: rusty doors, broken windows, abandoned buildings. These structures, packed with history, have become Spike's playground. The environment thus becomes part of the composition, leading Spike to play with the relationship between his letters, empty spaces and the irregular surface of the wall.

For Spike, his art is no longer merely about the act of painting. It is about the process of discovery, exploration and being at one with these spaces that are on the verge of disappearing. His spiky, slicing shapes become part of the history of these places… sometimes fleetingly, as with LE MUR, and sometimes for good, like the works on a façade along the Chemin de la Corniche and at 16, rue des Capucins. The final piece is only a snapshot of this experience.