Urban Art Association

CTK - Bando/Mode2/Shoe, by Unruly Gallery on Sept 19, 2018 22:21:50 GMT 1,







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Details: 
size: ± 48x64 cm
paper:  Zerkall-Bütten 602 Litho, real Mould Made Paper, white/smooth, 225 g/m2 with deckled edges on all four sides
edition: edition of 77, signed and numbered by Bando, Mode2 and Shoe
Unframed
Price: 250€, available through Unruly Gallery


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New print release by the legendary CTK (Crime Time Kings) graffiti crew of Bando, Mode2, and Shoe who came up in 1985, and which was the first international graffiti crew. For some more background information check out the Arte documentary The Rise of Graffiti.

Back in the early Eighties, the New York graffiti virus was ready to spread around the globe. Western Europe was the first to get hit. On walls and trains but also in galleries and museums.

London, Paris, and Amsterdam proved to be fertile grounds for this beautiful illness. It was there that a handful of angry young men got infected and united themselves in the Crime Time Kings. Shortly after, they started traveling and cities throughout the continent never looked the same.

It was mostly in Paris where the highly motivated painters gathered, specifically at 110 Rue du Bac. There stood a magical house which was governed by Bando’s mother Aki and became known as Crime Time hq. When others chose to stay rooted in the street and teach new generations, Bando, Mode2, and Shoe each spread their wings to develop personal styles that are now celebrated artists worldwide. These main figures of the CTK successfully made the transition from the 1980s street culture to the 21st-century art world.

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Details: 
size: ± 48x64 cm
paper:  Zerkall-Bütten 602 Litho, real Mould Made Paper, white/smooth, 225 g/m2 with deckled edges on all four sides
edition: edition of 77, signed and numbered by Bando, Mode2 and Shoe
Unframed
Price: 250€, available through Unruly Gallery


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New print release by the legendary CTK (Crime Time Kings) graffiti crew of Bando, Mode2, and Shoe who came up in 1985, and which was the first international graffiti crew. For some more background information check out the Arte documentary The Rise of Graffiti.

Back in the early Eighties, the New York graffiti virus was ready to spread around the globe. Western Europe was the first to get hit. On walls and trains but also in galleries and museums.

London, Paris, and Amsterdam proved to be fertile grounds for this beautiful illness. It was there that a handful of angry young men got infected and united themselves in the Crime Time Kings. Shortly after, they started traveling and cities throughout the continent never looked the same.

It was mostly in Paris where the highly motivated painters gathered, specifically at 110 Rue du Bac. There stood a magical house which was governed by Bando’s mother Aki and became known as Crime Time hq. When others chose to stay rooted in the street and teach new generations, Bando, Mode2, and Shoe each spread their wings to develop personal styles that are now celebrated artists worldwide. These main figures of the CTK successfully made the transition from the 1980s street culture to the 21st-century art world.