Clement Sinz

Contemporary mixed-media artist working with paper, paint, ink, and reclaimed materials, Clement Sinz develops a visual language rooted in urban environments. His practice draws from street art, graphic design, and the visual noise of the city — poster walls, tags, fragments of typography, and layered surfaces shaped by time.

Working between construction and erosion, he builds compositions through cutting, covering, tearing, and reassembling. Structure coexists with accident; graphic precision meets material disruption. Paper is treated as an active surface where traces, edges, and imperfections remain visible, becoming part of the visual syntax.

His work explores rhythm, density, and tension — reflecting the city as a living system in constant transformation.
Influenced by graffiti culture, poster walls, and graphic design, my work sits between street art and abstraction. I’m interested in the tension between structure and spontaneity — where control meets accident, and composition meets material chaos.

Each piece is built through layering, covering, revealing, and reworking surfaces. I treat paper as a living material, allowing marks, edges, and imperfections to remain visible. My work reflects the rhythm of the city: dense, t...

Background in graphic design and visual composition, with a strong foundation in typography, layout systems, and material experimentation.

My artistic practice is largely self-directed and studio-based, developed through ongoing research, hands-on exploration of mixed media processes, and immersion in urban visual culture. Influences include street art, collage traditions, graphic structures, and contemporary abstraction, which collectively inform both the conceptual and technical development of my work.

Layup — Toulouse (May 13 – July 13)

Selected for Layup, a major street art exhibition in Toulouse, Clement Sinz presented a series of 14 abstract mixed-media collages under his artist name Jzatoichi. The works combined lettering, tagging, paper collage, spray paint, and typographic fragmentation within a language oscillating between street aesthetics and graphic abstraction.

This presentation marked a key moment of public exposure, bringing studio research into dialogue with a large and diverse audience. The exhibition reinforced the connection between his design background and his materially driven, urban-influenced visual practice.

He also participated in the Layup creators’ market, where his first collages were acquired directly by the public — an early confirmation of the resonance of this body of work within a contemporary urban art context.

Exhibited alongside a diverse lineup of established and emerging artists, this project represents an important step in the consolidation of his artistic trajectory.

Exhibited at Layup, Toulouse, alongside a major lineup of international and French urban and contemporary artists including David Mesguish, Difuz, Fabien Maze, Fenx, Fuzi, Gris 1, Isakov, Jean Rooble, Jerk 45, Jzatoichi, L...