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Untitled (Colour Fields series)  between 2005 - 07  Düsseldorf, Germany  aerosol on regional train

Composition 57 (Colour Fields series)  2007  Düsseldorf, Germany  aerosol on regional train

Untitled (Colour Fields series) (exhibition view)  between 2005 - 07  Düsseldorf, Germany  aerosol on regional train

Wedel (Holst) I  2011  c-print  40 x 60 cm

Untitled  2012  c-print  40 x 60 cm

Bild  2011  c-print  40 x 60 cm

Zuglaufschild  2012  print framed in a train destination hanging of Deutsche Bahn  30 x 62 cm  (private collection)

Untitled (MosesTaps)  2012

Untitled  2011  aerosol on regional train

MT: “In the beginning of the 1990s, the German railway company Deutsche Bundesbahn reacted on the first graffitis on trains quite carelessly – they simply buffed them to ensure that signs and windows aren‘t covered with paint. But this attitude with time and increasing graffiti attacks.“

MT: “At the end of the 1990s, when German trains were colored mint green, they got deconstructed frustratingly often. The so-called Deutsche Bahn was helpless – that culminated when they unambiguously overcoated spray-painted trains with a white stripe. Especially as looking at such mutilated images, rather provoked motivation than resignation. As such, trains got painted over and over again.“

MT: “Since Deutsche Bahn revarnished all commuter trains traffic red and added an anti-painting coating to ensure that only special lacquer sticks to their surfaces, graffiti gets erased quickly. The visual reaction merely remains in form of a chemical reaction (crack formation, dripping off).”

The Future Is Now (in progress)  2005  Naples, Italy  aerosol on regional train

The Future Is Now  2005  Naples, Italy  aerosol on regional train

The Future Is Now (detail view)  2005  Naples, Italy  aerosol on regional train

Untitled (L.A. Crash series)  2010  c-print  120 x 135 cm

Untitled (L.A. Crash series)  2011  c-print  120 x 145 cm