The Genesis of Haring Street PopBorn in 1967 and currently based in the vibrant cultural hub of Lyon, Étienne Schmitt has emerged as a definitive voice in contemporary Neo-Pop. His practice is an uncompromising devotion to the Haring Street Pop aesthetic, a visual language characterized by uniform-weight black outlines and radiant, kinetic figures. Drawing inspiration from the raw energy of subway chalk art, Schmitt translates the fran…