Guillaume Picart, known as Lasveguix, is a French artist from Seine-Saint-Denis, who began his artistic career as a graffiti artist under the pseudonym Guix along the Canal de l'Ourcq as a teenager. After taking a break from artistic creation, he returned to his passion in 2022 and is currently working on a number of works on various media, mainly inspired by pop art influences.
Lasveguix is directly inspired by Jacques Villeglé and Raymond Hains, and uses photographs of famous faces and torn posters to create his paintings. He then covers these supports with graffiti and paint sprays, giving life to colorful, powerful works reminiscent of urban walls torn from the street.
His artistic signature lies in his ability to give relief and volume to his paintings. He cultivates a real taste for the texture and material of torn paper, creating an impression of movement by superimposing successive layers of paper.
Jérôme Mesnager entered the École Boulle in 1974, where he trained as a cabinetmaker and later taught. In 1979, he took comic strip courses with Yves Got and Georges Pichard, professors at the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré.
In 1982, he was one of the founders of Zig-Zag, a group of a dozen very young artists who decided to occupy the streets with graffiti, and also to briefly occupy disused factories for the duration of an artistic performance.
On January 16, 1983, he invented the Man in White, “a symbol of light, strength and peace”. This white silhouette has been reproduced by Jérôme Mesnager all over the world, from the walls of Paris to the Great Wall of China.
In 1990, Jérôme Mesnager moved out of his childhood home - the site of his meetings with Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch, the headquarters of his associations and the studio of his first works - and into the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He exhibited a series of palisades on the theme of combat at the Loft gallery, which published a catalog.
In 1995, he created a large-scale mural on rue de Ménilmontant, in the 20th arrondissement, entitled “C'est nous les gars de Ménilmontant” (“It's us, the guys from Ménilmontant”).
Jérôme Mesnager is often associated with Némo, whose favorite character is the black silhouette of a man in a raincoat and hat. As such, he accompanied the Parisian urban art movement (Blek le rat, Miss.Tic, Jef Aérosol, Némo, etc.) and Figuration Libre in the early 1980s.
In 2006, he produced a series of paintings inspired by art nouveau and art deco. The same year, hedrew his white characters in the Hôtel des Academies et des Arts in Paris.
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