SKATEBOARDING.3D BY SEBASTIAN DENZ
For about three years Sebastian Denz has been travelling through Europe with members of the carhartt skateboard team to shoot a series of 3D photographs in a quality never seen before.
Book
February 17, 2010
Calligraffiti – Book Preview
From Here To Fame Publishing present the first title from their spring 2010 catalogue: Calligraffiti – The Graphic Art of Niels “Shoe” Meulman.
January 5, 2010
FAFI Comic Book Preview
The French queen of the graffiti world, Fafi is working now for a year or so on a comic book here is the first fullcolor preview of the comic.
December 3, 2009
Backflashes – Graffiti Tales book review
Another book with graffiti tough action photos? Yep. One or many? Whether we are dealing with a particular book?
November 26, 2009
Book // STENCIL KING – HUGO KAAGMAN
STENCIL KING
On Saturday November 28th, Hugo Kaagman wil officially present and sign the book Stencil King at The American Book Center Amsterdam. The book is a representation of the total scope of his works. During the signingsession, Diana Ozon will read from her works and talk about her memories with Kaagman. Signing from 15:00-17:00.
On Sunday November 29th the official presentation of Stencil King takes place in the artKitchen Gallery. During the presentation Rob Scholte will share his views upon Kaagman’s works and his entire oeuvre can be seen. Presentation starts at 17:00.
Hugo Kaagman was born in 1955 in Haarlem, the Netherlands. He started graffiti in 1969 and stencil in 1977. Until 1985 Hugo was very active as a graffiti artist in the centre of Amsterdam. In his first period, he created murals through stencil and spray by hand and using various elements of punk and reggae culture. He developed a very own and unique graffiti-style. In his works, Kaagman tries to express his worries about the multicultural society, on Western and non-Western cultures clashing and bonding in the Netherlands. He displays an ironic commentary on politics and the society of today.
After initially having sought his inspiration elsewhere, he discovered Holland and developed his own contemporary version of Delft blue tiles. His workspace is located in what used to be a kiosk on Amsterdam RAI Station. The work he makes and exhibits over there provokes, is humouristic and on edge.
Thanks to the combination of exquisite photographic material and texts from Tristan Manco (among others), Stencil King has become a complete and unique chronologic display of the artistic career and godfather of Dutch graffiti art, Hugo Kaagman.
Night Watch, Spray paint on paper; 2008
Source: http://www.abc.nl/
November 3, 2009
Graffiti // Spray the Can: Graffiti Battle with BLADE
Friday November 6th: graffiti battle Spray the Can
SPECIAL GUEST, the famous old skool graffiti writer: BLADE (king of kings NYC)
21:00-01:00 @ Fusion / hiphopcafe4elementz, Marnixstraat 285
During ‘Spray the can battle’ 20 competitors are going head to head in a graffiti/ graphic art battle. All competitors will receive an empty blank Montana spray can, which will be used as the canvas. They have to paint, write, tag, sticker or shape the can as creative as the human mind allows it possible. Montana will provide the spray cans and a broad selection of markers. Any other items such as stencils, stickers or paint are the competitors own responsibility. The spray cans will be judged by a professional jury and the winner receives a goody bag and a cash price of €150,-. During the battle, dj’s will spin the dopest and phattest rap, soul and funk.
Read more about this event and Blade’s signing on November 7th after the bump!
