Nadib Bandi

Born 09/05/1980 in France, Nadib Bandi was adept at drawing since childhood and from a family passionate about the arts. Bandi's graffiti work began in the middle of the 90s (1996) during the golden age of Hip Hop in France and for fifteen years the European graffiti movement provided a fertile breeding ground for his generation.

He went to live in Paris and through meetings found himself quickly caught in the gears of being a "Graff Vandal" and from that moment aerosol art became for him more than a means of expression but a way of life.

In 1999 back in Haute- Savoie, Geneva he met with "Choll" and that led to a new approach in more experimental painting. It drew pictorial influences from older paintings and specifically from abstract painting of the 20th century (Georges Matthew Soulages, Pollock). Lettering started to become more of an abstract architectural composition evoking urbanity transfigured by an anachronistic railway universe.

It was in Marseilles along the Mediteranean that bandi continued his pictorial experimentations, 5 years continued to forge his style through meetings and travel between Marseille, Geneva and Barcelona. It was at this time that his activity peaked and it was like bulimia graffiti that ...

Graffiti Konstructivizm (2013) Geneva "Victor Contemporary"
Be The Change (2014) Dubai "Street Art Galery"
Art After Dark 2014 (Dubai)