The first and long waited monogram of the wonder-kid Eewan. This book reveals the unique humoristic prism that Eewan uses in his work and controversial musings on modern society, graffiti culture and lifestyle.
This book is a selection of unpublished works, with both deep and superficial layers of humor, interesting not only for people of a graffiti background, but for those who are not.
Read the interview with Eewan in The Grifters Journal here.
Our talented photo collective 1992 (Adrian Robos & Daniel Luengo) have just dropped their new zine.
Limited in 200 numbered copies, A5, 56 pages, packaged in a stylish Neoprene with a custom screen print.
The prize of our Social Discussion #RulesOfVandalism just arrived!
SPLASH - Rules Of Vandalism, limited edition spraycan by Montana Cans and MOSES & TAPS™.
This collector item will be sent to the 20 winners of our social discussion and 50 Spray-cans will be offered for the first 50 visitors of the show on Saturday 30 May.
This product will not be available for sale!
First come - First Served!
Our friend, the Mega wizard Saeyo has dropped a new video. This video trailer is the presentation of his book SAEIO 2009-2014.
Follow this link to find the crowdfunding page where you can make his project happened. We have already donated exclusive footage from our archive for supporting the project of the most avant-garde graffiti artist from Paris.
Portrait of SAEIO by Good Guy Boris
One week before the exhibition "Splash - Rules Of Vandalism", we offer you an exclusive sneak peak into the artworks by MOSES & TAPS™
As promised, here are the winners of the social discussion #RulesOfVandalism.
The following winners has been selected using social plugin to select a random winner from both social medias - Facebook and Instagram.
The 20 winners has to contact us and claim their prizes at office@thegrifters.org , until Monday the 25 of May.
The collector item from MOSES & TAPS™ & Montana Cans will start shipping of 25 May.
Thanks to everybody who participated! Watch the short film made for second stage and answer of the artist to the social discussion and come to see the exhibition of MOSES & TAPS™ on 30 May in Paris.
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| VIDEO DESCRIPTION Two weeks ago, in The Grifters social media we started a social discussion, as the first stage of a project called #RulesOfVandalism.
Together with the artists MOSES & TAPS™, we asked you what are the rules and the definitions of vandalism. Two weeks and thousand of comments later, we are back - as promised - with the second stage of the project - short film made by the artist Good Guy Boris.
The film idea is the to show the respond of the artists - MOSES & TAPS™ - to the statements and the definitions given on the questions in the social discussion.
“ The main character hears disturbing voices in his head. Voices who command him how to paint graffiti. At the very end of the preparation and right before the execution of his piece, the character decides to ignore the voices and to set himself free.
Nobody can put rules in something that is made to be chaos.” tells Boris.
This film is the occasion to link the social discussion with the last stage of the project - The Exhibition.
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Full information about the upcoming show available in the exhibition page here.
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At first, when graffiti was new and independent, the people who started it were creative. Not bound by rules or codes, they where fascinated and free to create. The freedom of expression that the pioneers of the artistic movement had, lasted as long as more people joined the movement. Like in any other cultural movements, created by a man, rules started to appear, graffiti stopped to develop and creativity started to decrease.
Only several artists understood that this “unwritten laws of vandalism” are blocking their development. They dared to take the risk, to disobey this rules, created in something that was about freedom at first place, in order to continue to evolve. Wherever they went back and forth experimenting - two things remained constant in its ordinary practice - the spray can as a tool and the urban space as a medium - the Alpha and the Omega.
The Top Sprayers MOSES & TAPS™ are world wide famous for their conceptual artwork on extreme supports, contemporary vandalism and their strong corporative branding.
In their first book, a best seller and titled as the “bible of graffiti”, they set not only a new record of quantity and quality for graffiti on trains, but their ideas and interactions with the public space proved something more important - art does not belongs only in the galleries. In addition, the duo challenged one of the sacred essentials of graffiti - the ego. Leaving both fans and police in check-mate, they sacrificed the idea of “a person is standing behind a pseudonym”. Moses alias Taps.
In §PLASH “Rules of Vandalism” - their first show in Paris, Moses Alias Taps™ will render the quinta essentia of pure graffiti and challenge another basis - to write a name. “Just paint...” or “A waste of paint...”, Top Sprayers will confront YOUR interpretation on what is standing between the Alpha and the Omega.
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