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From the streets of Lima to walls worldwide
It all starts in Lima, in the early 90s. BERNS is eleven when his cousin puts a skateboard in his hands; riding the city, he discovers the walls, the spots, the writers. His first tags are done in shoe polish, before he moves to the can. In 1999 he founds the DMJC crew with his friends — today the oldest graffiti collective still active in Peru.
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A spray-can globetrotter
Leaving Lima at 17, BERNS spends eleven years in New Zealand, where he finishes his art studies and settles his style. Based in France since the 2000s — Strasbourg, Grenoble, then Paris where he joins the ODV crew — he has painted in Argentina, Chile, Australia, the United States and across Europe. He has appeared at the Grenoble Street Art Fest, where he signed a monumental mural near the Bastille, at Meeting of Styles, at the Biarritz Latin America Festival, and on the collector bottles he created for Desperados.
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An instantly recognisable style
Letters and characters saturated with colour, gradients inherited from Andean textiles, animals — eagles, fish, hybrid creatures — inhabiting his walls. BERNS invented his own writing game: melting two words into the space of one, letting one letter be born inside another. His universe is joyful and committed, between lush nature and a critique of consumer society. It is all of that latinidad he comes to lay on the walls — and the objects — of Comptoir Latino.
The Comptoir Latino mural
Long before the event, the mural is waiting for you. Come and look at it, admire it, and take the chance to visit the shop: in the basement of Comptoir Latino, BERNS has painted a monumental work, rich in colour and exoticism, bringing the whole soul of Latin America into the heart of Montmartre. Painted to stay: it welcomes you all year round.
Order your customised object
Pick your object: BERNS paints it by hand and signs it. Paid in full at order, collected in store or posted to you.
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