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Punk graffiti: stencils and tags since 1977

Shepard Fairey, author of the Obey Giant campaign and one of the big stars of postgraffiti, has said it many times: his education didn’t revolve around graffiti, but around skate and punk. When, in 1989, he produced the sticker that was to be the germ of all his subsequent work, Fairey had had little contact [...]

Posted 22 October 2008 § Artivism § Eighties § Graffiti § Postgraffiti § Punk § Seventies ‡ Comments (6) °

What’s graffiti, what’s postgraffiti. Julio 204 and Daniel Buren in the spring of 1968

Some days ago I got in the mail the book Golden Boy as Anthony Cool, published in New York in 1972. It’s a brief look into the first steps of New York graffiti, in the moment when the phenomenon was starting to take form.
Graffiti in the New York tradition, now spread the world over, started [...]

Posted 06 October 2008 § Artists' profiles § Children graffiti § Graffiti § Postgraffiti § Seventies § Sixties ‡ Comments (23) °

Madrid eighties writing scene, Scandinavia, and Garrulo

At the start of the nineties I was lucky enough to meet some of the most influential artists of european graffiti, which was then starting to reach its maturity. Among other visits, the ones that left a more lasting influence in me were the ones I made to Scandiavia, allways one of the main stylistic [...]

Posted 16 June 2008 § Eighties § Graffiti § Punk ‡ Comments (6) °