Shoe Is My Middle Name: written paintings and painted words by Niels Shoe Meulman

By Niels Shoe Meulman

Ever due to the fact he picked the graffiti identify Shoe in 1979, Niels Meulman has been carving out his personal course in the direction of the foreign paintings international. Being a graffiti pioneer from Amsterdam, he labored with American opposite numbers akin to Dondi White, Rammellzee and Keith Haring within the Eighties.

He made the transition from the streets to positive paintings with a different fusion of calligraphy and graffiti, which he named Calligraffiti. This quickly turned a world phenomenon and now performs an important position inside city modern artwork. It additionally sparked the catchphrase 'A be aware is a picture, writing is painting'.

In contemporary years Niels Shoe Meulman moved in the direction of a method he calls summary Vandalism. inspired by way of the good painters of summary Expressionism, his paintings has been proven in numerous exhibitions around the world and is incorporated within the everlasting collections of museums and personal collections.

Shoe Is My center Name celebrates 3 a long time of artwork through a mythical graffiti artist, painter, author, fashion designer and calligrapher. A remarkable booklet that gives an summary of his profession, showcasing his evolution via a masterful mix of work, work of art, poetry, interviews, photographs and insights approximately his id as an artist and paintings itself.

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