High performance meets High art in Maserati x Cyril Kongo GT4
From dropout to working with global icons Airbus, Hermes, and Chanel, Kongo takes to his latest "canvas" and sexes up a competition legend Maserati Granturismo GT4
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It’s an understatement to say that Cyril Kongo?s art is expressive. In 2016, a collaboration with Richard Mille saw the international street artist transform his namesake RM 68-01 Kongo Tourbillon into an unprecedented work of art. Abstract yet avant-garde, his contemporary work is infused with street culture, boasting layers of heavy contextual expression. Kongo’s most recent work sees him move from a mechanical microcosm to something a little bigger in scope: a Maserati GT4.
High performance meets High art in Maserati x Cyril Kongo GT4
The Maserati x Cyril Kongo GT4 is the latest in the street artist’s universe of graffiti. From high school dropout to working with global icons like Airbus, Hermes, and Chanel, Kongo aka Cyril Phan, would never have figured out that his work would sell today for sums up to ?15,000 per square meter, nor imagined that the graffiti he painted on the streets of Paris would become famous beyond French borders.
From graffiti unknown to cultural super star, the self-taught French-Vietnamese artist has never forgotten his roots but heritage which drives his visual identity lives on a legacy of high profile vehicular installations like th...
The post High performance meets High art in Maserati x Cyril Kongo GT4 appeared first on LUXUO.
It’s an understatement to say that Cyril Kongo?s art is expressive. In 2016, a collaboration with Richard Mille saw the international street artist transform his namesake RM 68-01 Kongo Tourbillon into an unprecedented work of art. Abstract yet avant-garde, his contemporary work is infused with street culture, boasting layers of heavy contextual expression. Kongo’s most recent work sees him move from a mechanical microcosm to something a little bigger in scope: a Maserati GT4.
High performance meets High art in Maserati x Cyril Kongo GT4
The Maserati x Cyril Kongo GT4 is the latest in the street artist’s universe of graffiti. From high school dropout to working with global icons like Airbus, Hermes, and Chanel, Kongo aka Cyril Phan, would never have figured out that his work would sell today for sums up to ?15,000 per square meter, nor imagined that the graffiti he painted on the streets of Paris would become famous beyond French borders.
From graffiti unknown to cultural super star, the self-taught French-Vietnamese artist has never forgotten his roots but heritage which drives his visual identity lives on a legacy of high profile vehicular installations like th...
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