Last Saturday, Shooting Gallery opened the doors to Parisian street stencil artist, C215’s latest solo show, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (previewed). The show is inspired by cigarette iconography and advertisements that lie and typically depict affluent people enjoying a smoke in order to sell their products to the common folk and working class. The stencil pieces in the show consists of fake adverts that depict everyday people who are actually smoking the cigarettes and are the targets of these corporations, but are never shown. The artwork created for this show feature a wide range of sizes and are on various found materials (such as cardboard, metal, weathered canvas, an old cigarette tin, and a worn briefcase).
Unfortunately the artist was not able to attend the opening due to a few commission commitments in Morocco, but you can check out additional photos of the opening after the jump…
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