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Artists
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LADY PINK
Born 1964, Ecuador Sandra Fabara began painting subway trains in 1979, one of very few women to achieve recognition within the first generation of writers. Her starring role in Wild... -
DAZE
Born 1962, New York, USA Chris Ellis began painting subway trains in 1976 while at the High School of Art and Design, joining the generation that turned New York’s transit... -
John Crash Matos
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Banksy
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TOXIC
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Damien Hirst
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Exhibitions
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Insights
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Back on the Map: Why Graffiti Writers Paint the Subway
Several works on the first floor of ICONS are painted not on canvas but on the map of the New York City subway, the network that carried the first generation of writers across the city.TAKI 183, Dr. Revolt, Skeme, and Blade return to the New York subway on paper: the story behind the subway-map works in ICONS at KOOL Gallery, Limassol. -
Graffiti Meets Contemporary Art: Six Painters and the Language of the Street
The final section of ICONS brings together Damien Hirst, Hervé Di Rosa, Katherine Bernhardt, Kenny Scharf, Peter Klasen and Robert Nava: painters who did not come from the subway, but whose work belongs to a conversation with graffiti that has been runninHirst, Di Rosa, Bernhardt, Scharf, Klasen and Nava: how six painters took up the language of graffiti. The final section of ICONS at KOOL Gallery, Limassol.
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