Daniel Buren (*1938), photo souvenir: wild postering, work on site, Rue Visconti, Paris, April 1968.

The conceptual artist Daniel Buren was the first to create illegal artistic wheatpaste works, later called paste-ups. He always used vertical, colored, and white stripes.Photo: Bernard Boyer, Paris. © Daniel Buren / Adagp, Paris. Detail.

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Blek le Rat/Xavier Prou (*1951), Christ, stencil graffiti, Gérard Zlotykamien (*1940), ephemera, spray graffiti, Paella [Chimicos]/Michel Palacios (*1962), poster, Rue Visconti, Paris, 1988.

Three pioneers on one wall: Zloty, the “first” sprayer, the stencil pioneer Blek le Rat, and Paella. Inspired by May 1968, he illegally pasted around 15,000 posters in Paris between 1985 and 1990.

Photo: Xavier Prou/VG Bild-Kunst, 2024.

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