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When the Berlin Bank confused in 1989, its Western ancillary was covered with graffiti art. French artisan Thierry Noir had been amid the aboriginal to mark the bank with paint, he says.

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“I lived actual abutting to the wall. It was black — the afterlife strip, watch architecture and soldiers advancing and going, that was my view,” he says by buzz from his home in Berlin. “I capital to change something. So I started to acrylic the wall. I capital to accomplish some [statement] adjoin it, to abide the burden of that activity and the sadness.”

Now Noir — who has been alive steadily as an all-embracing accessible artisan for decades — has created a mural in Los Angeles, “Freedom Boulevard,” on the ancillary of a abrupt white accommodation architecture in the North Hollywood arts district. The 300-foot-long work, meant to mark the 50th ceremony of Berlin and Los Angeles as sister cities, depicts his signature continued animation active in profile. The images grew out of what Noir calls his “Fast Form Manifest” style, article he developed in Berlin during the ’80s.

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“It was banned to acrylic on the wall. It was not an art activity but a baleful border. So: Just acrylic and disappear,” he says.

Noir has created several murals in L.A. over the years, including one on Wilshire Boulevard as allotment of the Wende Museum’s 2009 activity commemorating the ceremony of the abatement of the Berlin Wall. But “Freedom Boulevard” is his better accessible mural to date. With it, Noir hopes to accomplish a account adjoin bound walls and to drag the alcohol of those who canyon by.

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Where: Lofts at NoHo Commons, 11136 Chandler Blvd., North Hollywood

Commissioned by: MWest Holdings

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More from the artist: “If, back you attending at ‘Freedom Boulevard,’ you accept one additional of animated on your face, it’s the best thing. I anticipate that’s the aboriginal important affair to me. The additional is, I did that appearance on a baleful border, so it’s important to agenda that on our side, on the West Berlin side, we were free; and on the East Berlin side, we were not. So it’s a account of freedom. Today, there are a lot of crazy things accident in the world. So ‘Freedom Boulevard’ is like a defense, of advance symbolically, but a firewall to assure Los Angeles adjoin applesauce of the world.”

deborah.vankin@latimes.com

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