Mission/SOMA
Folsom and Erie
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This mural at the corner of Folsom and Division is by French artist Horfe. According to Alternative Paris: Horfe is considered to be one of, if not the leading graffiti writer in the world. Horfe has been writing his name on walls for the past 12 years, mainly in Paris, where his graffiti can be found on shop fronts, trucks, walls, train sidings and roof tops, city-wide.
His style of graffiti is extremely unique, blending typography and flat coloured illustration – it’s rumoured that Horfe attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris.
Horfe’s ‘dubs’ (graffiti painted quickly with no more than two or three colours), for example, are done with a naivete that disregards typical graffiti style. It is instead reminiscent of very early New York subway graffiti.
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According to the August 2012 Complex Magazine: Horfe is one of the top 25 graffiti artists around today: Horfe is a bit weird and very French. He’s the graffiti poster boy of 2012, constantly evolving and changing. Additionally, his crew Peace & Love are one of the most interesting around at the moment.
While I will admit he is excellent, I would put many of our San Francisco artists up there in the rating of some of the best.
I really love this guy’s work. He’s done a lot to improve the atmosphere of the old SoMa warehouse district. I was thinking the other day about how the underlying inspiration of present-day graffiti artists is much the same as that of twentieth century American hobos and railway workers like Bozo Texino. Hat’s off to Horfe!
Very very cool!
I really like this. You seem to have so much well-executed street art there.