Lot 12

This artwork is in very good condition. All ceramic tiles are intact and floating within the resin. There are minor scratches upon the perspex, one apparent in the top right hand corner approximately 4cm in length. There is white foreign matter found on the artworks stand, approximately 1.5cm
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Lazarides, London, 2011
Private collection, Melbourne

Invader is a French Street Artist who has been working on the Space Invader Project since 1998. This collection is about liberating art from museums and galleries. "Each time I put a new piece in the street, it is like a memorable exhibit" . Invader uses ceramic tiles to bring the pixilation's into our physical world. He started installing his characters around the streets of Paris before taking the invasion to a global scale.

For every work that Invader puts in the street, he also creates one 'alias' mosaic. These are to be sold in galleries, the works are of better quality and set into perspex. Each alias is accompanied by an ID card recording the sale and location of the original invasion. For the collector these artworks are symolicially linked to the work on the street.

The March Prints and Multilples auction brings us Alias LDN-08. Originally created on Old Brewers Yard, Shelton Street, London and the date of invasion June 1999. The alias exhibited within Invaders solo show at Lazarides Gallery, London. It has since been brought to Australia in a private collection.