Astro

Astro (Grégory Teboul, born in 1981) is a self-taught French graffiti artist and muralist. He painted his first graffiti in 2000 in the northern suburbs of Paris. In his early years he focused on lettering and wildstyle, a graffiti style in which the letters interlock until they become hard to read.

Astro then moved away from letters towards an abstraction that keeps their outline, with curves, geometric shapes and gestures drawn from calligraphy. His references include Hans Hartung, Victor Vasarely and Alfons Mucha. His compositions play on shadow, light and depth, so that the façade or canvas seems to lose its flatness. In 2006, with the graffiti artist Kanos, he developed CelloGraff, a way of painting graffiti on stretch film.

In 2019 Astro painted for the Crous in Strasbourg. He has also taken part in the Mursmurs festival in Decazeville. In 2022 he covered two façades on rue des Coches in Amiens for the IC.ON.IC trail.

Astro is a member of the CBS collective, founded in Los Angeles.