Just Push The Button- Writing Metropolitano- USED

Description

Booktitle: Just Push The Button
Authors: Stefano Pane Monfeli, Monia Cappuccini
Paperback
Published: 2003
Pages: 120
Language: Italian, English
Dimensions: 21 x 21 x 1 cm.
Condition: Cover: 9.5/10 Inside: 10/10

Through the direct testimony of the protagonists, the author redesigns the fundamental features and the spirit of the years of development of Writing in Italy, and in particular in Rome, where the metro line, more than any other, has seen the signatures of illustrious writers, who also came from Europe and the rest of the world. A series of stories, almost a documentary, to capture the essentials of the world of Writing. The packaging of the book, starting from the choice of photographic materials, is designed to make this book also a must-have of the Aerosol Art movement and urban culture in our country and abroad.

INTRODUZIONE
GALLERIA COLONNA
-Stand, Clown, Ice One, Crash Kid
STAZIONE NOMENTANO
-Stand, Breezy G, Baby, Napal, Fab 137, Check, Pane
STAZIONE S. PAOLO
-Stand, Pane
METROPOLITANA
-Tuff, Sugo, Pane
YARD
-Pane, Jon, Nico, Delta, Kraze, Milk
STORIE
-Pane, Joe, Oase, Ski, Set
CITTA
-Nico
GLOSSARIO

Introduction by Adolfo Rossomando
The detailed knowledge of urban territories and the ability to penetrate they are fundamental requirements for the practice and development of Writing and the Roma writers, just like the pioneers in New York twenty years earlier, at the beginning of the 90’s benefitted and enjoyed of a subway system that was unprotected from their assaults. This circumstance gave them the opportunity to constantly practice writing and to see their own pieces running for long periods of time, a fertile ground for the development of any pictorial art. The spreading word of such an accessible subway system soon generated a flow of foreign, often well known writers, who were attracted by the possibility of finally seeing their own pieces running. Their stylistic and technical contributions set off an incredible proliferation of writers, the result being an enormous amount of cars being painted on the Rome Subway from top to bottom and from end to end, just like what was happening in New York in the 70’s. A large portion of the visual impact of this escalation, which in other cities was repressed by police raids and chemical agents, today is still visible to the Romans and strongly motivated us to write this book. Many texts, even in Italian, have been written on the unstoppable Writing phenomenon by sociologists, anthropologists, art critics, calligraphers, journalists, semiotics, experts, and university students. Many have never picked up a spraycan, but they nonetheless provided us with their interpretations; More or less interesting, polished and academic, or vulgar and intolerant. In this ocean of words if the most beautiful pages are those which host the writers’ direct experiences. This remark, thanks to the support and availability of all the people involved in this work, has brought us for the second time to publish an authentic and collective work on Writing. After “Style: Writing from the Underground”, centered on the evolution of stylistic elements of Writing in New York, this time we are concerned with Roma, and the central theme of this work, which for over two years committed dozens of Roman writers (or writers who have anyway painted in Roma), wanted to collect and tie together direct experiences and images for illustrating to the readers the evolution of Writing in the capital; all the tensions, joys, odors, colors, escapes and deep motivations that go with the creation of a piece, and that often the passer-by could never imagine nor perceive when observing walls and subways of his city. Stories taking placon the edge of a razor blade, charged with emotions that reveal its beautiful complexity and interlacing of passion, inspiration, determination, creativity, and technical skill, marking these young, rebellious metropolitan generations of the western world. The final artworks change, but the experiences of the Roman writers are not so different from those of writers in New York, London, Milano or any other city whose bowels are crossed by a public transport system on rails, whose surfaces are seething with social contradictions and creative energy. They all have incredible stories to tell. They all had to relate to, measure themselves and grow with the commonground of Writing, a phenomenon which implies an incredible series of cultural, ethical, expressive and artistic references. A culture so rich it can absorb, motivate and mold a writer no matter at what latitude, and connect him instantly with all the other writers on the planet. Many writers, having exhausted the bursting phase of illegal assaults, in time channeled their genius towards forms and modes of expression that could assure a better space, life, and recognition. The effects of this chain reaction, that reformulates Writing’s distinctive signs in fields such as web design, painting, sculpture, and contemporary graphics, involves some Roman writers. The book’s graphic layout as well as other elements of applied art within are only a few of the results of new lines of research that will revolve around the “Just Push The Button” project in the next a few years. Meantime the next, newer generation of writers is already at work in the urban texture, taking over Writing where their predecessors left off and pushing it towards new, unpredictable dimensions; their strength deriving from an expressive evolution and creative energy that, more than thirty years from its first appearance, has not yetl exhausted its thrust…
Rome, May 2003.