Street Painting Team... : SPIKE69 (ENG)

Street Painting Team meets .....Rap and Graffiti artist creator of Fullcolor.gr,

SPIKE69

"Part One" SPIKE69 on Art and Graffiti.

SPIKE69

Spike69 was born in Paris in 1982. He now lives permanently in Greece and he is an active Rapper and graffiti artist since 1996 and with him his idea Fullcolor.gr and the BUNS Crew.

FULLCOLOR.GR is the first representative site of Greek Graffiti which includes Graffiti and mp3 Rap music.

It started in 2001 with its original name www.spikesixtyniner.com and in 2003 it got its final name FULLCOLOR.GR.

Who are the members of the Site?

FULLCOLOR is all the people who are socializing with us and contribute to the group, whoever is our environment and supports it, whether it is a Rap artist, or is Graffiti artist or does Brake dance, D.j. , Beat box. We all are a group, at live concerts, at festivals ... we are all artists.

When the site acquired all of their active artists, the “writers”, we started to make the first Festivals begining in 2007. Then we did our first contacts with the shops that selling spray , so with the first sponsors.

The team IN ACTION - Koukos Nikos, SINKE και Raund - RtB

Is there an ideological background?

The ideology is that the whole setting is set from a company of friends, the fact that we were in the same squares to discuss our common interests, so we know each other better and expanding. This is how our music circulates from mouth to mouth, these were our own media .

BUNS

Graffiti has historically been and is illegal, street art is now very popular in the general public what do the street arts have in common?

Graffiti is something different. The murals artists are the ones who know how to grab the brush or spray and paint well. Graffiti is ideology and experience is different from knowing how to paint nice. Graffiti is synonymous with spontaneity is synonymous with illegal. So you distinguish what is true and what is commercial. Having the need to leave your spot at 4 in the morning is something spontaneous. It's not the same as getting in touch with someone that gives you an order to paint a butterfly with pink feathers for example. This is not Graffiti.

Street art and stencils are something else. If you sit in your office for 7 hours and cut cardboards and then go to spray at 20 " doesn’t mean anything to me. Nice message, nice design and thumbs up but it doesn’t compare to Graffiti's ideology. The important things about Graffiti is Where, How big the risk was, How long it lasted. If for example something is Wow! And you've done it within 5 minutes then it's worth it. If it is something beautiful aesthetically but had been done in 7 hours, that means that the police was there clapping their hands , it has no value.

Kaos & Spike69 Bogota 2011

That's why the Graffiti on the train deserves respect, it has a lot of risk. You risk your life if you are not careful , especially if you go into a tunnel, adrenaline is at 100%. As Graffiti is difficult, you have less time and you are not sure if your photo will come out.

Fullcolor.gr - Semen

How did you get started?

I started at school in 1996, first individually and then we create a crew. After school I went to study in France, I did a lot of acquaintances there. In 2003 I created BUNS (Between us no shit) and with the same set of people lasted until 2013. Within these ten years we ransacked everything. Those who were there remember and almost all the photos exists

2012

The photograph was always the proof, not just words in the air and stories. The world that saw it, is the second proof. I've done a lot of traveling and I have been paint in countries that they would have been cut my hand, as the Medina in Saudi Arabia. I could not stand thinking that I traveled here and I would not leave my mark.

DJIBOUTI 2014

Did you got photo?

Yes of course!. It is personal satisfaction, I have been where you'll never go, Graffiti is an entire mission.

Madīnah

Writing the name is the artist's print on Art of Graffiti?

Writing your name on the wall is spontaneous, is the first thought that would make someone who will catch the pen, is the first thing the child will learn at school.

Graffiti is a virus. You will write it once and then you will want to write it a million times, you will not be satisfied. You will write it in other ways, you will write it with other colors. When you do Graffiti is music, it's dance, it's movement. The color the mood the space will guide you is not always the same.

For me it's a reaction, in places where large companies dominate, is a nice spot for painting, they provoke me to answer. They have taken proper lighting or it's too high to be seen from far .... is a reaction to the pressure that they cause to me. When they bomb you with meaningless messages there I will answer with Colors, even it is called vandalism, they vandalism too.