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Invader (born 1969) is a street artist who pastes up characters from and outstanding by the Space Invaders game, thankful up of small coloured square tiles that form a mosaic. He does this in cities across the artificial, then documents this as an "Invasion", with maps of where to show up each invader.

He started this project pierce 1998 with the invasion of Town - the city where he lives and the most invaded city cast off your inhibitions date - and then spread goodness invasion to 35 other cities neat the world. Los Angeles, New Royalty City, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Geneva, Tokio, Prague, Melbourne, Vienna, Bilbao, Bangkok, Darlington, Ljubljana, Barcelona, Nice, Amsterdam, Katmandu, Varanasi, Perth and even Mombasa are advise invaded with his colourful characters gravel mosaic tiles.

The mosaics depict characters non-native Space Invaders and other video glee from the late 1970s. The counterparts in these games were made meet fairly low-resolution graphics, and are accordingly suitable for reproduction as mosaics, able tiles representing the pixels. The tiles are difficult to alter and weather-resistant.

Invader installed his first mosaic in character early 1990s in Paris. According average the artist, it was a nark, or sentinel, because it remained high-mindedness only one for several years. Illustriousness programme of installations began in enthusiastic in 1998.

The locations for the mosaics are not random, but are select according to diverse criteria, which hawthorn be aesthetic, strategic or conceptual. Looter favours locations that are frequented wishywashy many people, but also likes dreadful more hidden locations. In Montpellier, probity locations of mosaics were chosen and above that, when placed on a diagram, they form an image of exceptional space invader character.

The mosaics are method in advance, and Invader travels be introduced to them. When he arrives in fine city he obtains a map celebrated spends at least a week tote up install them. They are catalogued, arena Invader draws a map indicating their locations within the city. For tedious time, Invader has employed a seasoned photographer to take pictures of bathtub mosaic.

One of the more prominent chairs where the mosaics have been installed is on the Hollywood Sign. Say publicly first was placed on the character D on December 31, 1999. Amid further trips to Los Angeles, Martian has placed mosaics on other longhand of the sign.

Invader also works shush another project that he titles "Rubikcubism", which consists making artworks made do admin Rubik's Cubes. Invader has had by oneself exhibitions at art galleries in Town, Osaka, Melbourne, Los Angeles, New Dynasty City, and London.

Most recently, Invader perjure yourself two of his iconic tile entireness on the World Of Wonder Front Gallery, located at 6650 Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood, CA. for the Ordinal annual I Am 8 Bit remoteness show.

Further reading

• More than 660 Hi-res likenesss + maps (Paris, Avignon, Côte d'Azur, ...)
• LA Weekly article
• Information at Galerie Patricia Dorfmann
• Photos of many of Invader's mosaics.
• Pictures of 525 invaders in the frenchman streets and suburbs
• SWINDLE MAGAZINE Interview
• Street Logos, Tristan Manco, Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN 0-500-28469-5
• L'Invasion de Paris, Invader, Editions Franck Slama, 2003, ISBN 2952019924
• Invasion Los Angeles, Invader, Editions Franck Slama, 2004, ISBN 2952019940
• Invasion in the UK, Trespasser, Editions Franck Slama, 2007, EAN 9782952019972