Housekeeper - Silhouettes

Jérôme Mesnager, born on January 30, 1961, in Colmar, is one of the first Parisian street painters, father of "the Man in White". In thirty years, his art has become an artistic movement commonly called "urban art" or "graffiti".

He was one of the founders, in 1982, of Zig-Zag, a group of about ten very young artists "zig-zagging in the jungle of cities" who decided to occupy the street by drawing graffiti and, also, to briefly occupy, for the duration of an artistic performance, disused factories. On January 16, 1983, he invented the Man in White, "a symbol of light, strength and peace". This white silhouette also called "White Body" or "the White Man", Jérôme Mesnager has reproduced it throughout the world, from the walls of Paris to the Great Wall of China.

In 2006 he tackled the Hôtel des Académies et des Arts in Paris and invaded the space with his Corps blancs. Jérôme Mesnager's characters are painted on the walls covered in raw canvas-effect wallpaper. A white giant is also housed on the wall of the inner courtyard painted in bright red and is revealed from the ground floor to the 5th floor.

"I said to myself: I will be free from any commercial circuit, in the street, we can make art for the people of our time, for passers-by as well as for tramps!"