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This volume presents the contributions of the conference held in Rome at the Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea (MLAC) at Sapienza University in April 2022. There international scholars and experts in the field of graffiti writing as well as renowned writers from Rome and Milan came together for intense discussion and exchange. Texts and images present current research and answer to the question of style between the two apparently distant but somehow interconnected fields of art history and graffiti writing.
EGIDIO EMILIANO BIANCO studied art history, art and culture management in Milan. He is currently a PhD candidate at KU Linz, with a thesis on graffiti writing in Rome. His passion for and specialization in urban arts has led to a wide range of activities, including contributions to magazines, books, conferences, and exhibitions, as well as his current work for the auction platform Catawiki.
ILARIA HOPPE is Professor for Art History and Visual Culture at KU Linz. Previously, she worked at Humboldt University in Berlin. There she began with her research on street art and graffiti, starting with the very first academic seminar on the topic in 2007.
DETAILS
Size: 15×21 cm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 140
Language: English
Year: 2023
Publisher: edifir – Edizioni Firenze
Author: Egidio Emiliano Bianco, Ilaria Hoppe
ISBN/EAN: 978-88-9280-129-5
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Graffiti legend, artist and author BUS 126 has been surprising us for decades with ever new forms, techniques and locations for his paintings. In caves, in forests and on the facades of the city, he creates a work consisting of three letters and a number, BUS 126, reaching far beyond graffiti, extending like a root into the most diverse areas of artistic expression.
The original version of ENEMY KIDS was written in 1997 as a reaction to ODEM’s „On the Run“, the first german-language work of so-called „graffiti literature“, which is, of course, above all an argumentative piece of coming-of-age prose. BUS 126 has two chapters dedicated to him in this book, in which he finds it difficult to find himself. Prompted by the text, which was noticeably formulated by a ghostwriter, he recounts his own view of the West Berlin graffiti scene, of his childhood and youth in Lichtenrade and Marienfeld. Were these beginnings of hip hop and graffiti in Berlin really so glorious and creative? Who were the young men whose lives included graffiti as naturally as violence, drugs and boredom? What was the mood like in the walled-in half of the city?
Finally completed after 25 years, ENEMY KIDS seems like a journey back in time, into a city whose places and street names are familiar to us but which is nevertheless a completely different world. Completely dispensing with name-dropping and glorification, BUS 126 tells of a time without mobile phones and the internet, without video surveillance and graffiti bars. A time in which knives were just as normal a pocket item in certain circles as markers, fights were as natural as surfing the subway and love was as far away as any prospect of ever getting out of it all.
DETAILS
Size: 115 x 170mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 104
Language: German
Year: 2023
Publisher: possible books
Author: BUS126, editing by Jo Preußler & Stefan Wartenberg
ISBN/EAN: 978-3-910700-00-0
