Post-Graffiti Gallery
Aesthetics Gallery #01
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When we got into graffiti in the early 1990’s, it was exciting because we felt like we had found a way to express ourselves in total freedom. But the more we left the restricting rules of society behind us, the more we automatically accepted the rules of vandalism: “You should not paint like this, you should not paint there, it should look like this“. We realised that we have exchanged our bourgeois life, not with a free one, but with the life of an enchained outlaw. [...] It was, and is, a progress of almost 20 years. Every step we made was a tiny one. But it all started when we looked from a distance and saw that we were doing nothing other than what people were doing 40 years ago, only because we followed “the rules”.
Moses & Taps
DELTA aka Boris Tellegen on Instagram
The love I have for graffiti and the euphoria I feel at the moment of being in contact with ink and markers led me to such a state of ecstasy that I began to experience street writing in a more spiritual way.
Esnore
I have been drawing in the subway for three years now, and although my career aboveground has skyrocketed, the subway is still my favorite place to draw. There is something very “real” about the subway system and the people who travel in it.
Keith Haring
The drawings are designed to provoke people to think and use their own imagination. They don’t have exact definitions but challenge the viewer to assert his or her own ideas and interpretation. Sometimes, people find this uncomfortable, especially because the drawings are ina space usually reserved for advertisements which tell you exactly what to think.
Keith Haring
Crime for art's sake. Art for crime's sake.
Igit's World (2016) on Youtube
The Berlin Kidz saw more in graffiti than a rigid art form. They understood it as a culture of breaking the rules for art and entertainment's sake. So they even broke the rules of graffiti, invented an own calligraphy and brought attention to rapelling and train surfing.
Berlin Kidz (2013) on Youtube
Berlin Kidz 2 (2018) on Youtube
Spiritual Letters (2021) on Youtube
I feel like my mission in this life is to create unique art. Radical, but spiritual. I want to send a message to the world by creating art that pushes the limit. I want the people to wake up.
Mr. Paradox Paradise
If you don't control your mind, someone else will.
Mr Paradox Paradise
I do not have a political agenda when painting graffiti, but bombing in itself is political. I consider graffiti to be the last avant-garde art form.
Alone
The vivid colors are a way for me to say on the streets, 'Hey, I'm here. I'm somebody'. I want you to look at my graffiti more than the McDonald's ad next door. I wanted to get loud, and I think graffiti in that sense is very contemporary. That's how the Internet works. All the images are really loud and everybody wants to have the best picture. The streets are like the Internet; over information, super overwhelming. You want to have a style that really captures people's attention.
Felipe Pantone
PANT1 aka Felipe Pantone on Instagram
This gallery is part of our Aesthetics Gallery series, where we curate multi media material according to the concept of Universalpoesie and inspired by the radical power of social media feeds. To find out why we create these pages and under which criteria we select the aesthetics, read our Manifesto for an Aesthetic Warfare.
