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  • something passed by my eyes

    “ODEN is graffiti artist who lives in japan. mostly his subjects are from exploring, painting and all his experience. This book is focus to emotional time of those experience from 2016-2017.”

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  • Gossenpost No.3 – Tags & T-Ups

    One year after the release of the “Marker Issue” the guys behind Gossenpost did add another issue to their series: “Tags & T-Ups”. The third number, which is limited to 300 copies, keeps the focus on the Main capital Frankfurt. As the title reveals throw-ups and spraycan tags make up the whole content of No.3.

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  • Rail Experimental – Belgian Train Worker Art

    The author documents the railway workers activity with more than 1000 photographs between 2013-2017. The presented pictures were selected from this growing collection. This publication is a part of a research project: Conceptual Urban Art.

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  • Hamburg

    For more than 20 years Hamburgs cityscape has been overdrawn by artworks which are attributed to OZ. Since the early 1990s OZ’ œuvre included tags, smileys, pieces, abstract forms, political slogans and curls mainly executed illegally with spraypaint.

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  • Eruption

    In 2012 in Berlin suddenly a couple of wholecars mostly on the Ringbahn (circle line) appeared. Although a traditional trainwriting format of a full size length and height wagon has been chosen, the painted subject was far from traditional graffiti. Despite the use of ordinary writing tools like spraycans, paint and fire extinguishers the wholecars, which irregulary popped up in…

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  • ZAR ZIP FLY ZORO – Die erste Schicht Graffiti in München / The first layer of graffiti in Munich

    It was 7th April 1983 when the German TV channel ZDF aired “Wild Style!” for the first time. The movie was only the peak of a wave starting in New York City which hit Europe in the early 1980s. Graffiti began to influence above all youngsters who soon would start to imitate what they saw in printed and moving pictures.

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  • Sprühlinien – Emmett E. (2nd Edition)

    Destroy- or Terrorlines appear in different places in Berlin. Each line has its own history and sometimes also expresses the emotion of the creator, because destruction is not always the motivation.

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  • Boxcar Magazin – Zwei

    Only one year after the release of the first Boxcar magazine, the second one lines up to give this high quality publication a perfect continuation. As in the prior issue, you can find representatives of the European freighttrain scene which peak out concerning a combination of quantity and innovative pieces.

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  • The G-Word: Virtuosity and Violation, Negotiating and Transforming Graffiti.

    Since graffiti became a public phenomenon in the 1970s, there has always been the paradox of its illegal occurrence in the streets and on trains on the one hand and being an young and vivid form of expression in an art context on the other hand. Jacob Kimvall, writer, art-historian and co-founder of the Swedish Underground Productions magazine focused on…

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