ZEVS

Zevs is a French street artist named Schwarz Christophe Arhirre.He was an early and influential graffiti artist and active as a tagger in Paris in the 1990s. He is named after a regional train, Zeus, that almost ran him over one day he was down in the metro. Working with other French names of the second half of the 1990s like Andre` and Invader, Zevs has been among the prominent figures who pioneered the French street art scene.

By the end of the 90's he became known for his poetic drawings of shadows in Paris. Later he 'bombed' models on the billboards between the eyes. Though his interventions have been very popular, it has been discussed in France whether it is vandalism or art.

In 2008 Zevs' art was featured at the classical art museum in the NY Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark. His work was displayed side by side with the museum's permanent collections, mainly of classical Greek and Roman sculpture.