About

Text by Nina Ferrer-Gleize. Read entire texte in the exhibition catalog.

Adrian Falkner became an artist by writing on walls, mixing his voice with that of the city. Today, his artistic gesture is transposed; no longer immediately in contact with the surface of the wall or the floor, but removed in time and to another surface—that of the canvas, in the studio. Like Germaine Roussel or Brassaï, Falkner takes, isolates, and detaches fragments of this language of the city, the drawings and signs that it creates. He would later go on to draw inspiration from them in his work as a painter. This is …