Zevs (artist)

Zevs (born Christophe Aguirre Schwarz on 17 November 1977 in Saverne, France) is a French street artist, best known for his trademark "liquidation" technique.

His work, including selections of all of his major series to that point, was displayed alongside masterpieces in the museum's permanent collections such as Édouard Manet's The Absinthe Drinker and Auguste Rodin's The Thinker.

In this series, he created outlines of the shadows around common objects on the streets, such as streetlights, benches and entrances to the Paris Metro using spray paint.

In these pieces, Zevs painted billboards of major fashion lines, including Gap, H&M and Yves Saint Laurent, so that the models look as if they have been shot.

He kickstarted the exhibition by daubing a dripping, black Chanel logo on the outer wall above the window of a Giorgio Armani boutique in central Hong Kong, which led to his arrest and brief imprisonment for damages done to the building.

By pouring paint over them, the logo dissolves in front of the viewer’s eyes, drawing attention to, and visually disturbing the recognisable and omnipresent trademark.

Interview with PingMag, 11 August 2008 In 2011 Zevs launched his first solo exhibition in New York, titled "Liquidated Version", in which he continued his artistic commentary on various corporations.

Many of the works utilize Zevs' trademark liquidation technique, which seems to dissolve the various logos in front of viewers' eyes, creating an overall drippy aesthetic.