STATEMENT
Falco is a self-taught artist, born in 1998 in Annecy and now based in Paris. Engaged, he challenges conventions and transforms public spaces into genuine grounds for expression. His works aim to provoke, challenge, and denounce, while offering, at first sight, a perspective where irony and hope intertwine. Falco has left his mark on walls in Paris, New York, London, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Grenoble or Lyon…
Beyond the wall, he conceives his exhibitions as true scenographies, going beyond the traditional frame of the artwork to create immersive installations designed as complete experiences.
Sensitive to conceptual art and Duchamp’s readymade, Falco also enjoys playing with the definition of art: What is art? What are its limits? Must one paint like Caravaggio to be considered an artist?

STORY

Between the ages of 15 and 18, he began spreading his nickname, FALCO, through custom stickers and t-shirts before eventually studying Art History. Daily confronted with the analysis of powerful, conceptual and meaningful artworks, he quickly felt the need to create and share his work beyond the confines of a screen.
In 2019, driven by this necessity, he cut out his first stencil, initially conceived as a simple tool to materialize his illustrations. He painted his first wall without realizing that what he was doing was, in fact, “street art.”
Later, aspiring to become a graphic designer, he enrolled in an applied arts school, which he left three weeks later. He realized he could not create if someone was holding the top of his pen, nor express himself through imposed filters. Choosing the path of an artist became his true act of foundation, his ticket to freedom.