Le Diamantaire

Le Diamantaire (born 1987 in Caen) is a French urban artist and sculptor who pastes diamonds cut from salvaged mirrors onto walls. In 2001 he discovered Obey's "André the Giant Has a Posse" poster and started doing graffiti in his home town. A ban on graffiti then pushed him towards stencils.

Le Diamantaire studied metalwork, then boilermaking. In 2008, he moved to Paris to train in visual communication. His first diamonds appeared on Parisian walls in 2011. He collects abandoned mirrors, cuts them and assembles them into two-dimensional diamonds, which he paints and numbers before pasting them up.

From 2012, Le Diamantaire exhibited in galleries. In 2013, Galerie Derouillon in Paris hosted his first solo exhibition, "Atelier", devoted to engraving, wood and metal. The same year, in Los Angeles, he painted a mural on Melrose Avenue with the street artist Kaï Aspire. In 2014, he had a 900 m² studio and took part in the MURAL festival in Montreal. The following year, he exhibited in a duo show with Zoé Byland at Trace Gallery in Zurich, made a steel sculpture measuring 6 by 6 metres and showed "Diamonds are Forever II" at the Wide Painting gallery in Paris.

Galerie Gabel, on the Côte d'Azur, now presents his work.