- 27. April 2019
KUNSTFORUM International. Graffiti NOW – Ästhetik des Illegalen
Read moreIn its 50th issue the established German art magazine KUNSTFORUM International did introduce Graffiti for the first time as the volumes’ main topic to its readers in 1982. Back then “graffiti” was still a wide ranged term including murals from Central America, political slogans, ironic writings, ancient carvings and often illegal interventions in the cityscape. Traditional New York graffiti writing,…
- 16. April 2019
AMSTERDAM ON TOUR – The early signs of Dutch graffiti
Read more“The year is 1983 A.D.. New York graffiti occupies the globe, the Old Europe is entirely clean and name writing does not exist on the continent. Well, not entirely… One small village…” If you ever did research on the origins of graffiti, several forms of name writing culture such as hobo writings, the carvings of Pompeii or Mr. Joseph Kyselak…
- 8. April 2019
Groß-Clochard (HUMAN INSIDE)
Read more“Numerous smartphone snapshots. Frozen snippets of moments from SAEIO’s last trip to Southland. Lightheartedness. Together with two Germans SPAIR & EXOT in a car full of spray paint. Under bridges, on beaches. Train track stones plop into the sea. A booklet about the acquaintance of three artists which was about to evolve into an icy alliance. An alliance with the…
- 26. February 2019
SEISMOGRAFFITI – No.1
Read moreThe author of SEISMOGRAFFITI invited 31 writers to take part in a book project which exclusively focuses on black-and-white drafts. On 44 pages writers like GHOO, HOFF, MIKDO, PLÜK, SHERON or ZAST give insight into a part of their works which usually remains unrecognized in their private archives.
- 20. February 2019
Guide 04 (+ interview)
Read moreAlmost one and a half year have passed since the last Prague based Guide zine was released. Whilst all three previous issues had a regional focus on the Czech capital, this time five European writers are featured in big chapters: BICLOO (Marseille), PIANO (Leipzig), ZKAP (Prague), TEFRA (Athens/Berlin) and KOLA (Kiev).
- 15. February 2019
DIAMONDS – Geben Sie ihm keine Zigarette, er ist noch ein Kind
Read more“We have learned nothing new!” declared the shocked painter Pablo Picasso upon visiting the cave paintings of Lascaux. He was wrong though, and he realised this shortly after, when his chauffeur drove him back to his villa and he sat in front of his rectangular canvases. But Picasso was a wise man, choosing not to tell anyone about this. Instead,…
- 11. February 2019
OH – by Boris “DELTA” Tellegen
Read morePainting freighttrains became more and more attractive to European writers within the last 15 years. After decades in which boxcar trains have most often been ignored by writers it seems as if the promise of an alleged everlasting piece which travels thousands of kilometers and several countries evolved into a novel genre of writing.
- 4. February 2019
Disz. The first Dutch writer bombing the New York City subway.
Read more…New York City is still the capital and cultural center of graffiti. It’s like Mecca to those who worship at the altar of style. Not long ago, a writer named Disz showed up in New York with his camera at the 125th Street station of the Broadway Local. What is a young man from The Hague doing bombing the…
- 1. February 2019
451 – 452
Read moreThe passion to paint trains is often combined with a big enthusiasm for trains, different and rare models and their history. Paradoxically trainwriters often admire and paint subways and commuter trains at the same time. For some interrail writers it has become a mission to travel global and cross off specific train systems off their personal list after painting them.
- 25. January 2019
CALYBA – Screen Print
Read moreIn Joachim Spurlosers and Stefan Wartenbergs 2015 publication “CALYBA” you can find poems based on the pseudonyms of graffitiwriters and crews. They did note down every single name out the everyday natural habitat we see them in and rearranged the mess into poetic writings. In this hand pulled screen print you can now find more than 3000 names in alphabetical…
