© Saype
ART WITHIN SURFACES
Revolutionary Artwork Made with Graco Paint Sprayers The Graco’s LineLazers and airless paint sprayers have a wide audience in the artists’ world: this professional painting equipment is among the preferred tools for creating very impressive, even revolutionary artwork, like the Saype’s giant land-art paintings.
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he French-Swiss artist Saype is known all over the world for
values such as togetherness, kindness and openness to the world.
his sustainable giant land-art artworks painted on the grass.
It kicked off with the transformation of the grass fields at the foot of
Guillaume Legros (the real name of Saype) is born in France in
the Eiffel Tower into one giant artwork measuring 15 000 m2. The
1989, and he started his career in graffiti art at the age of 14. Today, he
artwork fades over time as the grass grows. The paint is also 100%
has become a true master at ‘land-art’.
biodegradable. “This particular artistic technique on the grass took many
Since 2019, Saype has gained worldwide fame with his ‘Beyond Walls’-
years of research in order to reduce the impact of our paintings” – said
project: ‘The largest human chain in the world’. This project aims at
the artist. “I use chalk for white, charcoal for black and casein, a milk
creating the largest symbolic human chain around the world, promoting
protein, to make the paint stick to the grass”.
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