Moses & Taps / Ruttkowski68 (Catalogue)
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Whether graffiti is described as scribbling, art, vandalism, or urban propaganda, it has long hovered between unlawful and lawful expression. Today, the gap between the two has narrowed. While street graffiti remains a form of vandalism, it is increasingly considered an art form, too. Some of those notorious paint sprayers are now defined as graffiti artists, whose works are exhibited, traded, collected, and analyzed. Graffiti has become a key influence in the world of contemporary art. One group, known variously as MOSES & TAPS™, ERNI & BERT™, and TOPSPRAYER™, has grabbed the attention of both law enforcement officials and art critics. The ever-changing name of this collective is not borne out of indecision or marketing. Rather, it helps conceal the identities of its members while still defying the unwritten laws of graffiti: anonymity. The pseudonym is the signature that gives the work recognition value – for fans and for the police as well. In 2011, the collective, who rigorously decided against an online presence, published a volume of their works for the first time. Across 288 pages, INTERNATIONAL TOPSPRAYER: MOSES & TAPS™ is a showcase of the group’s ambition to take graffiti to another level. Over the course of 1000 days, they spray-painted 1000 railway carriages. Some looked like typical graffiti, others were more conceptual. One work involved painting false doors and windows on a wagon, a trompe l’oeil effect that led to great confusion on the platform the next morning. On another carriage, the artists took a more ironically playful approach. They spray-painted a sign like those issued by German railway authorities, which warn that the train’s surface is protected by anti-graffiti coating. TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™ is the first solo exhibition by the artists. As the title implicates, the ar- tists give graffiti a ride that is bound to a new direction. The works on show, re-interpret and transfer graffiti from its convential medium to another surrounding. Contact: [email protected] MOSES & TAPS™ TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™ (February 1 - March 17, 2013)
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Whether graffiti is described as scribbling, art, vandalism, or urban propaganda, it has long hovered between unlawful and lawful expression. Today, the gap between the two has narrowed. While street graffiti remains a form of vandalism, it is increasingly considered an art form, too. Some of those notorious paint sprayers are now defined as graffiti artists, whose works are exhibited, traded, collected, and analyzed. Graffiti has become a key influence in the world of contemporary art.
One group, known variously as MOSES & TAPS™, ERNI & BERT™, and TOPSPRAYER™, has grabbed the attention of both law enforcement officials and art critics. The ever-changing name of this collective is not borne out of indecision or marketing. Rather, it helps conceal the identities of its members while still defying the unwritten laws of graffiti: anonymity. The pseudonym is the signature that gives the work recognition value – for fans and for the police as well.
In 2011, the collective, who rigorously decided against an online presence, published a volume of their works for the first time. Across 288 pages, INTERNATIONAL TOPSPRAYER: MOSES & TAPS™ is a showcase of the group’s ambition to take graffiti to another level. Over the course of 1000 days, they spray-painted 1000 railway carriages. Some looked like typical graffiti, others were more conceptual. One work involved painting false doors and windows on a wagon, a trompe l’oeil effect that led to great confusion on the platform the next morning. On another carriage, the artists took a more ironically playful approach. They spray-painted a sign like those issued by German railway authorities, which warn that the train’s surface is protected by anti-graffiti coating.
TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™ is the first solo exhibition by the artists. As the title implicates, the ar-tists give graffiti a ride that is bound to a new direction. The works on show, re-interpret and transfer graffiti from its convential medium to another surrounding.
Contact: [email protected]
MOSES & TAPS™ TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™ (February 1 - March 17, 2013)
MOSES & TAPS™
Contact: [email protected]
TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™
Untitled 201240 x 60 cmPhotographyEdition of 3 + 1 AP
Das kann ich auch2013 Each 100 x 100 cmSpray paint on canvas Unique
MOSES & TAPS™
Contact: [email protected]
TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™
Complete series is entitled: Zeitgeist - Aktion / Reak-tion
The single pieces are named and constituted in the following way (from left to right):
Size (each): 107cm x 100cm2012
1. 1992 107cm x 100cmArtificial resin, spray paint (true to the era‘s original colours: Eisodur, Auto-K, Belton, Marabu) on stain-less steel, RAL colors, PVC stickers of Deutsche Bundesbahn. Among others, further techniques include: Mar-bleizing polishing, lathing, riveting, welding, sand-blasting, buffing.
2. 1997107cm x 100cmArtificial resin, PVC sti-ckers of German railway company Deutsche Bahn AG, spray paint (true to the era‘s original colours: Belton, Multona) on stain-less steel, RAL colours.Further techniques: rive-ting, sandblasting, buffing, coating.
3. 2012 107cm x 100cmArtificial resin, PVC, Tuto-Prom-Anti-Graffiti surface protection, pray paint on stainless steel, spray paint (true to the era‘s original colours): Montana Black
Context (quote from the artists):
“In the beginning of the 1990s, the German rail-way company Deutsche Bundesbahn reacted on the first graffitis on trains quite carelessly – they simply buffed them to ensure that signs and windows aren‘t covered with paint. But this attitude changed with time and increasing graffiti attacks.
At the end of the 1990s, when German trains were colored mint green, they got deconstructed frustra-tingly often. The so-called Deutsche Bahn was helpless – that culminated when they unambiguously overcoated spray-painted trains with a white stripe. Especially as looking at such mutilated images, rather provoked motiva-tion than resignation. As such, trains got painted over and over again.
Since Deutsche Bahn revarnished all commu-ter trains traffic red and added a anti-painting coa-ting to ensure that only special lacquer sticks to their surfaces, graffiti gets erased quickly. The visual reaction merely remains in form of a chemical reaction (crack formation, dripping off).”
MOSES & TAPS™
Contact: [email protected]
TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™
Fingerprint 201140 x 60 cmPhotographyEdition of 3 + 1 AP
Bild201140 x 60 cmPhotographyEdition of 3
Sellout 201040 x 60 cmPhotographyEdition of 3
Sellout 201150 x 35 cmPrintEdition of 76
MOSES & TAPS™
Contact: [email protected]
TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™
Wedel (Holst) I 201140 x 60 cmPhotographyEdition of 3 + 1 AP
Wedel (Holst) II 201145 x 75 cmSpray paint on steel Unique
Wear & TearEach 45 x 75 cmSpray paint on steel Unique
MOSES & TAPS™
Contact: [email protected]
TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™
Post It 201172,5 x 110 cmC-print on alu dibondUnique
Zuglaufschild 201230 x 62 cmPrint framed in a original hanging of Deutsche Bahn Edition of 30
MOSES & TAPS™
Contact: [email protected]
TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™
Just Paint (inclusive video)180 x 180 cmSpray paint on canvas Unique
MOSES & TAPS™
Contact: [email protected]
TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™
Graffiti™120 x 120 cmAcrylic paint on woodUnique
MOSES & TAPS™
Contact: [email protected]
TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™
(From left to right)
Transformation I 100 x 120 cmSpray paint on steelUnique
Transformation II 100 x 120 cmSpray paint on steel covered with a painted silk sheetUnique
Transformation II 100 x 120 cmSpray paint on canvasUnique
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