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Ernest Pignon-Ernest was born in 1942 in Nice, France. An established French artist, he has been creating performance and installation work on and around city walls for thirty years. He is obsessed with images of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and has transferred paintings, drawings and serigraphs onto city walls and telephone booths. These images become part of the urban architecture, are accepted by the local population and protected against deterioration. Mr. Pignon-Ernest disdains art created for exhibitions and museums, and describes his work as a way to capture the essence of a place, based in history and memories, as well as in light and space. He feeds off of a cultural heritage that mixes the pagan and the Christian, and makes reference to famous artists, particularly Caravaggio. To distinguish himself from artist Ernest Pignon, whose identical name caused confusion when they once shared an exhibition, he repeats his first name after his surname.