L’Atlas’s Cryptograms: Street Art Meets Calligraphy in Milan

French street artist L’Atlas (born Jules Dedet Granel, Toulouse, 1978) presents a new series titled Cryptograms at a Milan exhibition. The works, executed with spray paint, blend graffiti with influences from optical and kinetic art. L’Atlas has studied Chinese, Arabic, and Hebrew calligraphy, creating custom fonts that evolve across his series. His career includes site-specific projects for private clients like Guerlain and public spaces in Beirut, Paris, Rome, Dakar, New York, and Yogyakarta. He has exhibited at Centre Pompidou, Grand Palais, Palais de Tokyo, and Fondation Cartier. The exhibition in Milan features works that merge the meditated gesture of a painter with the cold-blooded gesture of a writer, inviting viewers to decipher signs and navigate labyrinths reminiscent of Gonzaga mottos in Mantua’s Palazzo Ducale.