Dani’s Blog

I was looking at those brown doors last night, remembering their old red, yellow and purple and thought, when are we going to paint them?

A little while later, while contemplating my collage in the 4th floor hallway, Gaki walked by holding a tall paintbrush with a bright dab of yellow at the end. There was a matching dab on his cheek.

What are you up to? I asked.

He said, with his characteristic smile, on peins la porte, viens.
(We’re painting the door, come.)

You don’t have to tell me twice.

Details of the collaboration's rainbow of fruity flavors

Slimane paints a base coat in blue

Saverio Montella paints with two brushes simultaneously

Suisse Marocain and Barry, who accompanied the painters with song and dance

Suisse and Gaki at the door-painting party

Francesco adds his signautre style

Suisse Marocain closes the doors of 59 rue de Rivoli for the night. To be finished tomorrow...

“Also Women Can Paint” : Suisse Marocain

Back when I started this blog, one of my reasons for it was to share photos from random celebrations, which I usually send by email in a long film-strip-like montage. I forgot about this for a while, and now that I’ve learned how to create this scrolling box (html beginner that I am), I’ll start posting these.

Last night there was a party to celebrate 10 years of residence at 59 rue de Rivoli, an artist squat that opened in central Paris a decade ago and has recently become legitimate studios, owned by the city of Paris, and still housing many of the original artists from last century. It doesn’t take much of a reason to have a party with the Electrons Libres, but this one is a milestone. I didn’t shoot much, but here are some faces in the crowd.