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2012 – Romans vs. Germans

2012 – Romans vs. Germans
2012 – Romans vs. Germans
2012 – Romans vs. Germans
2012 – Romans vs. Germans
2012 – Romans vs. Germans
2012 – Romans vs. Germans
2012 – Romans vs. Germans
2012 – Romans vs. Germans
2012 – Romans vs. Germans
2012 – Romans vs. Germans
2012 – Romans vs. Germans
2012 – Romans vs. Germans
2012 – Romans vs. Germans 2012 – Romans vs. Germans 2012 – Romans vs. Germans 2012 – Romans vs. Germans 2012 – Romans vs. Germans 2012 – Romans vs. Germans 2012 – Romans vs. Germans 2012 – Romans vs. Germans 2012 – Romans vs. Germans 2012 – Romans vs. Germans 2012 – Romans vs. Germans 2012 – Romans vs. Germans

Kollaboration von Macs, Etnik, Mord182 & 3Steps


3Steps

  • established 1998, all members are born 1980
  • hits the world in URBAN GLAMOUR and AMBIVALENCE
  • curator and initiator of the RIVER TALES festival

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3Steps (est. 1998) is the collective of the twins Kai H. and Uwe H. Krieger and Joachim Pitt (all born in 1980) from Giessen. The award-winning collective pick the term AMBIVALENCE out as its central theme, transforms the world into URBAN GLAMOUR, paints in NEO POP, runs a small creative agency and is the initiator and curator of the urban street art festival RIVER TALES. The three friends live and work in the university town Giessen, Hesse, Germany.

Milestones of the collective are the founding of their studio in spring 2012, the award of 'Kultur- und Kreativpilot Deutschland' by the Federal Repuplic of Germany in 2014, the publication of the first monograph 'MILVUS COUNTY' in spring 2017. In the same year they were presented in an One-Artist-Soloshow with the 2CforArtGallery at the art KARLSRUHE international art fair. Mentionable is also the 'THE SENSE OF THINGS' solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Kunststation Kleinsassen with two large-scale mural artworks as part of an artist-in-residence program in summer and fall 2017.


Alessandro Battisti alias Etnik is active in the graffiti writing scene since the early '90. He was always eager to find new ways of pushing the limit of the classical graffiti to a higher level. Therefore, he creates and organizes art events to connect the best European artists.
Since 2001 his way of painting started to develop into geometrical and architectural forms. Nevertheless, the conceptual and compositional structure of his artistic research is still based on writing and lettering. Etnik's way of representing the CITY, of criticizing it and painting the urban volumes as an abstract composition, is the way to work on different media from painting to sculpture and installation. Nowadays, he is traveling a lot for mural paintings and gallery shows


His first graffito with the name ''Macs'' was in the early 90s. He is one of the most famous and important graffiti artists, especially in characters, in Italy and Europe.
Over the years, many murals were made and his artworks were shown in numerous national and international graffiti and street art exhibitions. 

Regardless of the technique, from pencil to acrylic paint, watercolors, digital design and spray cans, Macs has an unique style: his comic-like drawings, the study of graffiti fonts, photorealism and sense for pictorial motives leads clear messages, from the walls of the city to digital media and pictures on canvas. 

His characters travel around the world, from Italy to the United States, from Brazil to Germany. They always have something to tell, arising in response to current events, reflecting your thoughts. Sometimes dreamy or melancholy, humorous or sarcastic, telling stories or fables, snapshots without filters or cencorship, describing everything he is experiencing and what is surroundin him.  And looking speechless at his murals is the only task for us.