Back in the late 1980, FUZI dis­coverd Sub­way Art — one of the very early pub­lic­a­tions about sub­way graf­fiti in New York. Soon he got hooked on graf­fiti and hip-hop cul­ture and star­ted to paint his name all over his dis­trict, the Parisian sub­urbs. He inven­ted his own style of graf­fiti paint­ing, he called it the “Ignor­ant Style”.

Switch­ing eas­ily between dif­fer­ent medi­ums, FUZI taught him­self how to tat­too and brought a fresh­ness to his designs that were inspired by his bru­tal life­style: straight black lines with dev­ast­at­ing punchlines. Using the streets, sub­ways, tun­nels or art gal­ler­ies as eph­em­eral tat­too stu­dios, FUZI left his mark on the skins of graf­fiti writers as well as big names in music and fashion. In 2010 FUZI cre­ated “Ignor­ant People”, a hand­made screen-print cloth­ing line based on his per­sonal style.

Last week, FUZI made a quick stop at the Salon Ren­ate design stu­dios for a tat­too ses­sion. The Salon Ren­ate is appar­ently not affil­i­ated to the Wilde Ren­ate club (there’s some­thing about that name, huh!) but a cre­at­ive, col­lab­or­at­ive work­ing space in Neuk­ölln. The FUZI stunt was sup­posed to be a kick off into an extraordin­ary event-season, and extraordin­ary it always is with the artist. His work, whether on skin or paper, is stand out, authen­tic and inter­est­ing. Even if you’ve never seen any of his draw­ings, you’ll instantly cat­egor­ize the style as some­thing spe­cial and unique.