KOOL Gallery provides a curated selection of research and reference material related to its exhibitions, artists and the broader discourse on contemporary art.
Publications and texts are selected for their relevance to the presented artists and their contribution to understanding the cultural and historical background of contemporary, pop and urban art.
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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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