Roma Subway Art (Romeo Mathieu
Roma Subway Art (Romeo Mathieu A thirty year retrospective of Roman subway graffiti with stories from 90 of the most prolific writers in the Roman scene. In spite of surveillance technology and…
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Roma Subway Art (Romeo Mathieu
A thirty year retrospective of Roman subway graffiti with stories from 90 of the most prolific writers in the Roman scene. In spite of surveillance technology and increasingly severe penalties, these intrepid artists and photographers continue to decorate (and document) Rome's trains. This is a thoughtful journey through hundreds of secret archives with internationally renowned photographers who have followed and documented the cultural phenomenon since the early days.
The scene was celebrated in Subway Art (1984), by Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper, which shifted the conversation of graffiti from a public nuisance to a hyper localized outsider art movement, encouraging its spread across the world. In the 1970s, a new art form emerged on the trains crossing the length and breadth of New York City, shocking the public with the colorful, indecipherable lettering. Fifty years have