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SEEN (Opera Gallery Geneva) Apr 24 - May 11, 2013
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Born in 1961 in the Bronx, Richard Mirando,
a.k.a SEEN, began his career in the midseventies.
At the age of 11, he started to
customize cars with spray paint in his uncle’s
garage and went on painting whole cars in the
New York subway, becoming more and more
well-known in the city. At the time, the street
art movement was emerging, and SEEN is often
considered as a pioneer of graffiti, referred to
as “The Godfather of Graffiti”. He picked the
name “SEEN” because he liked the double “E”
sequence and the meaning of the word was a
perfect fit for his art. The significance of SEEN’s
work goes beyond the subways of New York
and in 1981 it took a seat alongside the work
of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Basquiat
in the exhibition “New York / New Wave” at
P.S.1. Since then, his work has been exhibited
around the world and is part of prestigious
public and private collections. SEEN shares his
time between New York and Paris.
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