Clet Abraham

Clet Abraham (born in 1966 in Brittany) is a French artist based in Florence, known for the road signs he alters with stickers. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, then left for Rome, where he worked as a restorer of antique furniture.

In Florence, Clet Abraham began working on the city's signs in 2010. His first piece turned a dead-end sign into a crucifixion. He cuts his stickers in the studio, then applies them to the signs, keeping each sign legible and without damaging it irreversibly.

His signs later appeared in Paris, London, Rome, Berlin, New York and Kyoto. In 2016, he exhibited in Mulhouse and altered more than two hundred signs there. Clet Abraham also works in three dimensions. He fixed a giant nose to the San Niccolò tower in Florence, and placed on the Ponte alle Grazie "l'Homme du commun" (the Common Man), a sculpture in metal and fibreglass, with one foot on the bridge and the other above the Arno. The work has been removed and reinstalled several times. His studio is on via dell'Olmo, in the San Niccolò district.