SETH

Julien MALLAND better known under the pseudonym SETH who initially signed "Set", born in Paris in 1972, is a Parisian urban artist known for many mural compositions of characters, often children, seen in three-quarter back (or three-quarter back). Seth is a globe trotter artist, named after himself as the original "world-painter" and known to the general public as an author and animator of television programmes thanks to reports on urban art in many countries. Some of his reports were broadcast on the French television channel Canal+ as part of a weekly programme. He is also the author of books on this subject and co-founder of the publishing house ("The Eye of Horus"). Seth is the initiator of the "Wasted Talent" collection, which offers a series of monographs by artists from the graffiti urban culture movement. The artist has also collaborated, as a cartoonist, with the comic strip Lascars, which emerged from Canal+'s animation series. Seth" began her career as an urban artist in 1996. Lycéen, he began to take an interest in street art by photographing graffiti in the streets of Paris. Invited by friends, he launched a first artistic action: he made drawings and his friends the lettering. His first bomb compositions were made on the walls of the twentieth arrondissement of Paris. Seth, according to his own statements, immediately began to create very stylized characters. The artist graduated from ENSAD in 2000. The creation of characters is therefore his specialty and his travels around the world (2003), the discovery of customs and contacts with local urban artists open him other artistic perspectives and change his style. One of his latest books, called Globe Painter, sums up his vision and his ideal: it is a travel diary combining photos, drawings and illustrations tracing the route of this muralist painter who sought to meet street art artists from around the world (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santiago de Chile, Valparaiso, Sydney, Hong Kong, Tokyo). In this collection, Seth discusses another way to travel and live the pictorial activities of the street.