Abraham Clet Biography
Clet Abraham (1966 - ), born in Brittany in 1966, is a French street artist who studied at the School of Fine Arts in Rennes. He exhibited his art in several art galleries in Brittany, then in Rome and Paris before moving to Florence in 2005 where he still works today. Among the most influential artists of his generation, Clet is the artist who hijacks street signs to create brightly colored original works of art that are always imbued with a certain humorous touch. His work is based on criticism of the coldness of road signs, bringing them a more human dimension that symbolizes rules and order. His approach aims to question us when faced with simple orders, he wants to give meaning and more importance to road signs, in order to create a territory of freedom, poetry and humour. Making his work very relevant in the urban space governed by norms and rules. He started in Florence in 2010 where he put his first diversions into practice, cutting out stickers before applying them to road signs in the Italian city. Since then his interventions have been visible in the streets of major European cities such as Paris, Rome, London, Berlin, Brussels, Milan, Florence, Barcelona and beyond.
