Miss. Tic: where and when does the funeral of the Parisian artist take place?

MISS ICT. This Wednesday, June 1, 2022 will be held the funeral of the street artist who died at the age of 66 in Paris. A final tribute will be paid to him publicly at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Time and address information.

[Mis à jour le 31 mai 2022 à 12h43] The funeral of the famous street-artist Miss. Tic, who died on Sunday May 22 following cancer, will be held on Wednesday June 1 at 3:30 p.m. at the crematorium of the Père-Lachaise cemetery, in the Salle de la Coupole in Paris. Following his death, his family specified on the official website of the street-artist that his funeral would be “according to his wishes, open to the public”. It is therefore at 71, rue des Rondeaux in the 20th arrondissement of Paris that a last tribute will be paid to him publicly.

Miss. Tic has left behind many stencils painted on the walls of the capital since 1985. “Accessible to everyone, her stencils were both funny and raunchy, tragic and romantic, tender and violent, modest and erotic. She tattooed our cities and our hearts by the scope of his words and the beauty of his drawings. The street was his gallery, the walker his visitor, our walls his canvas; his drawings were whispers that captured our attention for a moment, almost our ear”, can we read in a Press release of the Ministry of Culture, in homage to the deceased.

A pioneer of street art, her stencils of brunette and sexy women accompanied by sometimes poetic, sometimes political messages, remain forever engraved in the streets of Paris. “I came from street theatre, I liked this idea of ​​art in the street”, explained the artist in 2011 to AFP. Since 1985, Miss. Tic “adored Paris and dressed this city with his art, his thought”, entrusted Carine Rolland, assistant to the mayor of Paris in charge of Culture, to the Parisian. A feminist before the hour, we have all come across her sentences in the capital of women in love but who certainly do not intend to let themselves be trodden on:

The street artist Miss. Tic died on Sunday May 22, 2022 at the age of 66, from cancer. The stencil artist Jef Aérosol, from the first wave of street art like her in the 1980s, announced on her Instagram that she “fought against the disease with so much courage”. The mayor of the 13th arrondissement of Paris has announced that a street or a square will bear his name.

Miss. Tic died in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, where she lived and had her studio in Butte-aux-Caille. “I am so sad to learn of the death of this great poetess, philosopher, feminist. We had an exhibition of her works inside and outside the walls, at the Butte-aux-Cailles. It is this exhibition with the incredible success which also gave me the desire to develop street art in the district”, testified the mayor of the 13th arrondissement Jérôme Coumet (DVG). On her official Facebook page, the news was accompanied by a photo of her in her studio:

Who was Miss. Tic?

Real name Radhia Novat, Miss. Tic was born in Paris on February 20, 1956 to a Tunisian immigrant father and a Norman mother. She first grew up Montmartre, then his family moved to the Cité des aviateurs in Orly in 1964. In 1966, she lost her mother, her brother and her grandmother in a car accident. This tragic accident makes her a “necessary left-hander”. In 1972, when she was only 16, her father died of a heart attack. After studying applied arts, she moved to California in the 1980s and witnessed the birth of hip-hop and graffiti. Back in Paris in 1985, the visual artist and poet she had become began to line the walls of Paris with her art. An amorous spite inspires him with his first stencil on a wall of the 14th arrondissement of Paris: “I put on wall art to bombard words with hearts”. The queen of street art died of illness on May 22, 2022.

What is the work of Miss. Tic?

Miss. Tic used the spray stencil technique on the walls of the city of Paris. She began by illegally practicing street art at night, in 1985, on the walls of the districts of Montmartre, Ménilmontant, Marais, Montorgueil, Butte-aux-Cailles. In 1985, the artist posed his first stencil in a street of the 14th arrondissement. Very quickly, success is at the rendezvous: Agnès B notices her and opens the doors of her gallery to her.

After several arrests in flagrante delicto, a landlord wins a lawsuit against Miss. Tic, who was fined 22,000 francs in 1999. The artist then changed strategy: she asked for permission from the owners of the walls on which she wanted to “poach”. She thus meets local residents’ associations, district town halls and shopkeepers, who very quickly support her. Since then, his works can be found both in galleries and on the walls of Paris.

But it was in the 2000s that the recognition of urban art by institutions came. Brands and gallery owners are finally interested in her work: she is finally exhibited and receives public commissions. She participates in contemporary art fairs in Venice and Miami.

In 2007, it entered the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She realizes the poster of the film “The Girl Cut in Two” of the director Claude Chabrol. On March 8, 2011, his works appear in the stamps of La Poste on the occasion of Women’s Day. In 2013, she is designing the 5th line of the tramAgglomeration of Montpellier.

“She was a feminist and supportive of the cause of women, but in her own way, very free, independent and poetic. She was not an ideologue, but a deeply anarchist”, confide her stepchildren, Antoine and Charlotte Novat.

Miss. Tic, a name borrowed from Scrooge

Comic fan, Miss. Tic borrows his pseudonym from the character of the witch Miss Tick from “La bande à Picsou”, created by Carl Barks.