Jérôme Mesnager

Jérôme Mesnager joined the Boulle School in 1974 to study cabinetmaking, where he later taught. In 1979, he took comic book classes taught by Yves Got and Georges Pichard, instructors at the Duperré School of Applied Arts.

In 1982, he was one of the founding members of Zig-Zag, a group of about ten young artists who decided to take to the streets by creating graffiti and organizing ephemeral performances in abandoned factories.

On January 16, 1983, he created the Man in White, a symbol of light, strength, and peace. Jérôme Mesnager reproduced this white silhouette all over the world, from the walls of Paris to the Great Wall of China.

In 1990, Jérôme Mesnager left his childhood home, where he had met Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch, founded his associations, and created his first works, to settle in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. There, he exhibited a series of fences themed around fights at the Loft gallery, which published a catalog.

In 1995, he created a large mural titled "We Are the Guys from Ménilmontant" in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, on Ménilmontant Street.

Jérôme Mesnager often collaborated with Némo, whose signature character is a black silhouette of a man in a raincoat wearing a hat. This collaboration linked him to the Parisian urban art movement, notably with Blek le Rat, Miss Tic, Jef Aérosol, Némo, and to Figuration Libre in the early 1980s.

In 2006, Jérôme Mesnager created a series of canvases inspired by Art Nouveau and Art Deco. That same year, he carried out an intervention at the Hôtel des Académies et des Arts in Paris by filling the space with his "White Bodies."