“50% of the information about him is false”: who really is Invader, street artist and secret star?

It's the story of someone everyone knows, but who has never shown his face publicly.

The story also of a small character from a first generation video game, “Space Invaders”, from the “Pac-Man” era of the 1980s, who will proliferate twenty years later in Paris and then throughout the world, on the walls of 188 cities in 32 countries.

Invader, the invasion.

Finally, the story of its 356,000 fans, the “flashers” who, since the creation of its application in 2014, have obtained ten to one hundred points by photographing the mosaics of the hexagonal Banksy with their smartphone.

The Frenchman remains a pioneer: he chose to be invisible before the mysterious Briton, and his app preceded Pokémon Go.

While a huge retrospective dedicated to the 54-year-old artist, on the occasion of his 1,500th Parisian mosaic revealed this Saturday, opens this February 17 in République, in the former building of the Libération newspaper, a giant parking lot deserted since 2015, in a space of nine floors to its disproportion, perhaps we need to start at the beginning.

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