Thierry Noir

b. 1958, France

Thierry Noir (b. 1958) is a French artist and mural painter based in Berlin. In the 1980s he was among the first to paint the Berlin Wall. It was illegal and dangerous: the wall stood on East German territory, and border guards could detain anyone who approached it. Because of this risk he developed a method he called “Fast Form Manifest”: figures painted in a single continuous line using only a few colours. His works are characterised by bright colours, thick black outlines, faces in profile and simplified, almost naive forms. Over five years he painted about 5–6 km of the wall. His works are held in museum collections in Berlin, New York and London.

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