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Victor Ash

Victor Ash, also known as Ash, is a Copenhagen-based artist originally from Paris, France. Ash works primarily on canvas, lithography and occasionally installations. Since the late 1980s, he has exhibited regularly in various museums and galleries around the world.

He began his artistic career in the early 1980s spray painting on fences at the Louvre and around the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. From 1983 to 1986, Ash was known as Saho, then Ash2.

In 1984, Ash was the first to paint in the legendary land of Stalingrad or La Chapelle, which quickly became a gathering place for the Parisian hip-hop movement. Ash was part of the Bad Boys Crew or BadBc with JayOne and Skki. The BBC with Bando, Mode2, JonOne, the alphabetic force are considered precursors of the graffiti movement in Europe.

Inspired by the lettering styles of the New York subway murals, most of them started by spray painting their names and marking them in the subway. With some stencils like Blek le rat and Miss.Tic, they represent the first wave of street art in Europe.

Ash's early graffiti has been published in several books on the subject, such as Henry Chalfant's Spraycan Art, and more recently in Marcus Aurelius' Writers and International Bomb It.

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