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.

JESS89, TFOG, CPUK, BORNE and ZORIN are a few examples of the ten local hero specials you can find inside this years issue, while more than the half of the mags content consists of the throw-up chapter.

Just like in the previous Gossenpost versions the team managed to combine a large variety of namewriting traces artists did leave in Frankfurt on 100 pages. Besides the usual suspects like LLOYD, ISAAC, ROAM, etc. there is a big amount of tourist tags. OFF, 46, SNOOZE, SPAIR, OTZE, TERZ, ROY, HYDRO, OROZ, CRUSO, NFK just to name a few Berlin related tags.

Once again the arrangement of photographs and the conceptual pages (oldschool tags, blue tags, red outlined throw-ups, etc.) are the highlights of the magazine and do not leave you bored while checking out the 1400 shots.

Be fast and order one of the few very limited editions including “Gossenpost Extrablatt” and the big sticker set!

100 pages, 21 x 29,7 cm, softcover, limited to 300 handnumbered copies
Language: –
Release date: October 2018
Publisher: Gossenpost

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.

When traditional New York Graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon through the media it was mainly one important sub-genre which gained international attention: Trainwriting. Till today namewriting on passenger- and freight trains holds a special status within the graffiti world.

Although most train companies try to ban graffiti from their wagons, more or less fast and successful, a trained eye is able to notice if a car has been painted and got buffed before put back into service. Ordinary passengers may not even realize that the trains surface looks dull and little paint stains remain here and there, and that sometimes leftovers of the fill-in or outline are still visible. But to a writer signs like tags on electric boxes beneath the trains and arrows on the front or back are direct links to the moving canvas the train may once has been.

Rail Experimental consists exclusively of photographs documenting these ‘signs of a struggle’. On 84 pages Belgian Train Worker Art focuses on the little hints the buffers did leave to keep the beholder wondering about the artworks original unspoiled appearance. Remains of pieces by Noach, NAWAS, Tomcat and the Animal Farm crew can be identified in the zine which features only a small sample of the authors huge collection including more than 1000 photographs.

Most of the photographs feature serious and massive attempts of graffiti removal which often did not only damage the trains paintwork but also its substance to the raw steel.
Appearing as a side product of trainwriting these motifs usually are not featured in graffiti publications. But being collected and presented in this way, they gain a whole new value which may arouse the readers interest to keep an eye on their local Train Worker Art.

Every page is a photograph from the authors collection of analog photographs inside a photo album.

Includes one exclusive polaroid photography.

84 pages, 14,5 x 20 cm
Language: English
Release date: 2017
Publisher: Nokkio – Institute of Zines