KCBR

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284 pages23 x 18.5 cmLanguage: EnglishPaperbackPublisher: Édition Patrick Frey2023 A conceptually driven monograph from KCBR, the Zurich train-writing crew active since 2008, publi shed by the respected art house Edition Patrick Frey. On its face a record of the crew's relentless campaign across Zurich's façades, rooftops, trams, delivery trucks and SBB trains — disciplined, precision-timed work built around memorised transit schedules — the book is in fact something stranger and more deliberate. Its centrepiece, a series titled Vom Silber verweht("Gone with the Silver," after Gone with the Wind), documents pieces that the public never saw: works the crew erased themselves within moments of finishing, before any spotter's photograph could circulate. In doing so, KCBR turns the graffiti book on its head. Rather than a trophy album of surviving flicks, it becomes the sole trace of a self-obliterated practice — a meditation on concealment, ephemerality, authorship and the medium itself, executed with real wit and a sharp awareness of its own form. Issued by a serious contemporary-art publisher and quickly sold through its first printing, it stands as one of the more intelligent graffiti books of recent years, and a natural bridge between the writing scene and the wider art-book world. Show more