GRAFFITI AVANTGARDE™

MOSES & TAPS™ – GRAFFITI AVANTGARDE™

GRAFFITI AVANTGARDE™ offers a deep insight into MOSES & TAPS™' broad body of work between 2011 and 2020 across 544 pages with over 2,000 photos in ten chapters, complemented by a variety of exciting and insightful texts. The book illustrates how they managed to balance train bombing and their lives as artists, and clarifies why these two worlds do not have to be opposing forces.

The monograph begins with an interview of MOSES & TAPS™ by criminologist Ike, exploring what truly defines the Graffiti Avantgarde, who they are, their goals, and what drives them.

The TOPSPRAYER™ chapter, in which MOSES & TAPS™ lead us through various

stops on trains from Russia to the USA, is followed by the SPLASH™ chapter, where one learns how to leave colorful traces with spray cans as a writer in both proper and improper places,

without having to use a fat cap or letters.

Subsequently, the scepter is passed to ALIAS™, whose allegedly 1001 trains in 999 days are complemented across 176 pages by his stories and the action photos by Edward Nightingale.

In SCRATCHITI™, MOSES™ reveals why he only paints glass panes to clean them, how he brings them from the yard to the museum and back again, and why he hates Mickey Mouse.

In the CORPORATE IDENTITY™ chapter, Robert Kaltenhäuser deciphers how all chapters can be connected via MOSES & TAPS™ CI codes, why yellow-blue works better than Banksy, and what lies behind ™.

With IMAGE OF GRAFFITI™, TAPS™ clarifies why graffiti must be illegal and how one can still create an image of it on canvases.

While the CREATIVE DESTRUCTION™ chapter explores the multifaceted nature of

MOSES & TAPS™’ work, expressed in collage-like images and installations, the CONCEPT-VANDALISM section is dedicated to their unique conceptual works on trains – and sometimes also on the walls within them.

Finally, in two separate chapters, MOSES & TAPS™ explain and illustrate their very personal view on the development of their styles.

GRAFFITI AVANTGARDE™

ISBN 978-619-7267-04-4

German/English

Hardcover with hot foil stamping on iridescent linen cover (blue thread on yellow fabric);

Portrait format, 24.7 × 28.5 cm; 4.5 cm thick;

544 pages.

Paper: four paper changes: 120g natural paper, 150g high-gloss paper, 150g matte paper (with UV spot varnish);

Total weight 3 kg.

Printed and bound in Germany.

© 2020

Texts by MOSES & TAPS™

Guest authors:

Alias the Boss, Edward Nightingale, Ike, Katharina Galladé, Larissa Kikol, Niels Shoe Meulman, Pietro Rivasi, Robert Kaltenhäuser, and Tania di Britta.