WIKILYNCA (Tanguy Anguelidis)
Born in 1999, he is a painter and street artist whose universe is built around spontaneous drawing and character creation. Since childhood, he has developed an instinctive visual language shaped by diverse influences.
His style first took shape on the pages of his notebooks, through a free practice without preparatory sketches, where improvisation guides the gesture. This intuitive approach remains at the heart of his work today: creating without anticipation, allowing forms to emerge, and trusting the movement.
In 2020, his first exhibition marked a decisive turning point and encouraged him to share his work more widely. Since then, WIKILYNCA has developed his practice through exhibitions, murals, and collaborations with various brands, gradually asserting a distinctive artistic signature.
In 2023, discovering vinyl paint opened a new chapter in his work. This medium, with its matte and velvety texture, transformed his relationship with color and allowed him to further explore layering, nuances, and chromatic harmonies. His universe, initially deeply rooted in black and white, then expanded toward more colorful compositions, where texture becomes a central element of the visual narrative.
Black and white nevertheless remains an essential breath within his creative process: a space to return to a raw, direct, unfiltered gesture. After several years of exploring dense and abundant works, his recent practice has evolved toward more open compositions, made of fragments and “zooms” into his own worlds, in order to refocus the energy of his characters and rethink the balance of the composition.
Through his work, WIKILYNCA explores the relationships between forms, bodies, and the flows of energy that move through them. His characters, often intertwined, express movement, the continuity of gesture, and a vibrant circulation of color.
Coming from a mixed cultural background, he also brings a more intimate dimension to his work, connected to his personal history and origins. Between cultural heritage, external perceptions, and self-construction, his visual universe expresses the feeling of existing between several spaces, several references, and several sensibilities. From his maternal Caribbean roots to his childhood in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, he draws from memories, sensations, and introspection, transforming them into a living material made of forms, rhythms, and colors.
