The artist & his vision: COFEE
CALLIGRAFFITI | When the Written Gesture Brings Life
Writing, Movement, and Emotion
Cofee, whose real name is Guillaume Pujol, is a self-taught French artist born in 1990, whose artistic journey is deeply rooted in urban culture and the exploration of the artistic gesture. Having drawn since childhood, influenced by a creative family environment, he truly discovered his artistic path as an adult through his exposure to graffiti and pivotal encounters that shaped his perspective and practice. Initially introduced to lettering alongside urban artists, he quickly turned to portraiture and the depiction of the living, developing a unique approach where technique becomes language.
Over the years, Cofee has developed a unique style, blending calligraphic precision with gestural freedom, giving rise to a recognizable pictorial language: calligraffiti. His works, found on walls, canvases, and in art venues, stand out for their visual power, their mastery of black and white, and their ability to transform a simple glance into an immersive emotional experience.
COFEE's Vision
The essence of Cofee’s work rests on a fundamental paradox: making the image more complex without ever losing its legibility.
His works always offer two levels of interpretation:
• A figurative, immediate, accessible image
• A rich, labyrinthine abstract calligraphic structure
The viewer recognizes a face, an animal, a gaze. Then, upon closer inspection, they discover a multitude of micro-strokes, textures, nuances, and gestures that make up the whole. This approach reflects a demanding pictorial exploration: making complexity invisible and letting emotion take precedence over technique.
For Cofee, the work never imposes a narrative. It opens up a space for interpretation.
The gaze wanders, gets lost, and constructs its own story.
SHADOW GAZE — THE WRITING OF THE GAZE
A presence in the shadows, a gaze in the light.
In the depths of pitch-black darkness, a presence emerges. Silent. Intense. Magnetic.
With Shadow Gaze, Cofee does more than simply paint an animal:
he sculpts an emotion.
At first glance, the gaze captures the essence: that of the feline: piercing, almost hypnotic. But as you get closer, the image transforms. The forms fragment, the textures vibrate, and the face reveals itself to be an invisible construction of gestures, signs, and movements.
This is where Cofee’s uniqueness lies: in creating a work that is immediately legible, yet infinitely complex in its structure.
“Simplicity is only apparent. My work consists of making my paintings more complex without it being obvious. [...] The image is not fixed; it appears in a single stroke and disappears immediately.”
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Art as the Writing of Life
Cofee develops an artistic practice rooted in gesture, movement, and immersion, where calligraffiti becomes a visual language in its own right. His work is not limited to canvas or walls: Cofee integrates his practice into immersive and collaborative art projects.
One of the most notable projects of his career remains "La Sainte-Manu", a former tobacco factory in Riom that had been abandoned for nearly forty years and was artistically revitalized in 2016 in collaboration with the artist Rino. Transformed into a veritable temple of graffiti, this three-story building became, after five years of work, a monumental space for artistic expression bringing together more than 75 artists and covering nearly 15,000 m² of painted surfaces. Combining murals, performances, music, dance, and multimedia projects, "La Sainte-Manu" transcends the scope of a simple painting venue to become a unique, collective work of art.
This major artistic endeavor, documented in the book La Sainte-Manu: histoire d’une rinovation, continues Cofee’s commitment to making art accessible and immersive, while preserving the legacy of a work that has since disappeared but has been immortalized through images, archives, and virtual experiences.
Through projects like this, Cofee affirms a vision of art as a living experience: a practice in which the image is not merely exhibited, but becomes part of space, time, and the encounter with the public.
“I prefer to talk about calligraffiti rather than calligraphy. I don't write words, I write images.”
HIS ARTWORK | SHADOW GAZE
Cofee, a unique figure in the world of calligraffiti, fully embodies the essence of Just Art Paris: transforming art into a living, sensory, and wearable experience. With *Shadow Gaze*, he creates a work in which gesture becomes language and the image is constructed through a subtle pictorial language, poised between presence and movement.
The panther, emerging from the shadows through a multitude of calligraphic strokes, offers a dual interpretation: immediate through its visual power, profound through the invisible complexity that structures it. Every detail, every texture, and every vibration of the stroke bears witness to a constant exploration of gesture, where the body, the hand, and rhythm shape the image.
Through this limited collection, Just Art Paris presents an immersive work to be both seen and worn, where apparent simplicity reveals a universe rich in symbols and emotions. More than just a garment, Shadow Gaze becomes a presence, a gaze, a fragment of living art to be collected.
Meet the gaze. Wear the presence.
COFEE : WRITING THE LIVING THROUGH GESTURE
A self-taught artist, Cofee developed an instinctive relationship with drawing at a very early age, fueled by practice and the observation of living subjects.
His breakthrough came through his exposure to graffiti and urban culture, where the act of drawing becomes a language in its own right.
Initially drawn to lettering, he gradually shifted toward portraiture and the depiction of living subjects, both human and animal, in order to capture what he calls the emotional essence of a subject. It is through his artistic encounters that he gradually shapes his unique style: calligraffiti. A hybrid technique in which the fundamentals of calligraphy are no longer used to write words, but to compose images.
For Cofee, the line does not describe.
It writes.
It suggests.
It constructs form through the accumulation of masterful gestures.
"La Sainte-Manu" — The Immersive Work
The former Riom Tobacco Factory, which had been abandoned for nearly forty years, became a true temple of graffiti in 2016 under the leadership of Cofee and Rino. Over the course of more than five years of work, the site was completely revitalized, cleaned, secured, and transformed into a monumental immersive artwork bringing together more than 75 artists and covering over 15,000 m² of murals.
Much more than a creative space, La Sainte-Manu has established itself as a living laboratory of urban art, blending painting, performances, artistic encounters, and visual memory—now immortalized in the book *La Sainte-Manu: histoire d’une rinovation*.
Light Painting — Writing with Light
Cofee explores light painting as a natural extension of his artistic language. Using light sources and a camera, he creates ephemeral images in which gesture replaces the line and light becomes a pictorial medium.
This practice is based on the movement of the body in space: each light trail is captured in a single shot, without retouching, giving rise to unique and immaterial works.
Light painting extends his “calligraffiti” by transposing rhythm, precision, and gesture into a luminous dimension, where the image exists solely through time, movement, and presence.
Gesture & Performance — A Painting in Motion
Beyond the canvas and the wall, Cofee grounds his practice in a gestural and performative approach, in which the body, the hand, and rhythm play a full part in the creation of the image.
Using a variety of mediums, spray paint, acrylic, airbrush, and Posca markers, he builds his works in successive layers, ranging from broad strokes (macro) to micro-calligraphy.
An active member of the urban art scene and involved in collective and performance-based projects, he develops a vibrant, immersive, and evolving style of painting, in which each work becomes the trace of a movement rather than a static image.
Over the years, Cofee has refined his calligraffiti through monumental murals, immersive projects, and artistic collaborations. Inspired by life and movement, he creates work that is legible at first glance but structured by an invisible complexity of lines, textures, and movements.
From walls to canvas, from light painting to performances, he constantly explores new formats, driven by a single intention: to transform gesture into pictorial writing. Major projects such as *La Sainte-Manu* illustrate this vision of a living, collective, and immersive art form.
With Just Art Paris, his world becomes part of everyday life: a piece to wear, a presence to feel, a fragment of living art to collect.
And this is just one step, because for Cofee, every stroke is already the beginning of a new work.
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Fine Art by Cofee · Collector's Edition Case /50
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