Earlier than then, L’Atlas had by no means produced studio work or exhibited in an artwork gallery. “Impulsively, being with agnès, you felt the ability and openness of spirit, openness to the world,” he stated. “She’s an artwork patron, and when she has a typical sensibility with somebody, you don’t want to elucidate your venture to her. She will get it and trusts you, like a mom. I felt that every thing was doable along with her.” L’Atlas stated he was the youngest within the present, and exhibiting in it “was like a detonator” for his profession. “I needed to progress from ideas and actually begin portray.”
He then produced his black-and-white “Toiles Errantes” sequence—pictures of city streetscapes that characteristic his work—and agnès b. despatched him to point out his work in her shops in London, New York, Tokyo, and Osaka. She allowed L’Atlas to emerge from the underground world of graffiti onto the up to date artwork scene, and in the present day, she is amongst his most loyal collectors. He has even taken to the catwalk in Paris twice for her: in 2007 and 2017, when he modeled the sequence he designed for her menswear assortment.
