CALLIGRAFFITI AT AFFENFAUST GALLERY

Photography: Jerica Kane
Text: Danijel Vukoja

Enter a zone where modern streetart meets tradition and conservative lettering meets the newtime. A zone in which handwriting gets a specific teint through urban attitude. Enter the zone and meet an art form named calligraffiti, which is a combination of calligraphy and graffiti.

Calligraffiti is a jiggy typographical way which comes in many forms: inspired by Japanese ancient brush characters up to Arabic pictorial scripts, but always mixed with a little bit of street. Ironically it’s a new way of doing graffiti, but at the same time reminds us of the beginnings of handwriting. The forms may differ, but the art pieces have one thing in common: they all look dope. And pieces of pure dopeness is what you can see during „Calligraffiti Ambassadors“. The legendary artist Niels “Shoe” Meulman, also founder of the title calligraffiti, has chosen 25 international artists as ambassadors, who represent this artform, beginning at the exhibition at Affenfaust Gallery. No better location to feature urban art with calligrafitti arists from all over the world than in a former supermarket.

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