3TTMan

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3TTMan's spontaneous, painterly style has affinities with both Pop art and cartoons like Tom and Jerry or Bugs Bunny, combining bold compositions and often garish colours with sometimes brutal imagery. Originally from Lille, he started painting on canvas, and only later began working on the street. His name derives from the French trois tête man, or three headed man – a recurring figure in his work, which reflects a divided, often directly contradictory spirit. He talks about this three-way consciousness as 'three ways of expressing something in the same process, three ways of thinking in the same body'. In Madrid, he often targets billposters as a surface for his work, cutting away and painting over the original advertisement to transform commercial imagery into art. 'We're playing with the city, playing with what we've got around us,' he says. 'We're playing with advertising for advertising something else, a thought, an idea.'