XOOOOX - First Monograph - Gestalten 2012 [First Edition & Out of Print]

XOOOOX - First Monograph - Gestalten 2012 [First Edition]

Rare first monograph of Berlin's anonymous stencil legend XOOOOX.

Before Instagram turned street art into content, XOOOOX was wheat-pasting life-size fashion models onto crumbling Berlin facades. Sexy, high-fashion girls in couture and heels, stenciled in black on concrete that was literally falling apart. The contrast is the point.

Edited by Benjamin Wolbergs and published by Gestalten, this is the book that took him from the streets of Berlin to the international art market - the first German street artist to make that jump.

Inside: 128 pages of full-color stencils, street documentation, exhibition photos, plus his culture-jamming logo work where he flips Hermès, Chanel, and H&M (H&M > HIV) into critiques of luxury and fast fashion.

Why we have it in the shop:

This is the same energy as our racks - fashion as intervention. Streetwear, high fashion, decay, beauty. If you know Beautiful Losers, Banksy, or Berlin in the 2000s, you know.

Details:

• Publisher: Gestalten, Berlin 2012 • Editor: Benjamin Wolbergs / Text: Ilaria Hoppe / Foreword: Aaron Rose (Beautiful Losers) • Hardcover, 17 x 24 cm / 6.7 x 9.4 in • 128 pages, full color, English • ISBN: 9783899554175 • Condition: [ Good / Very Good - light shelf wear, concrete cover texture still crisp - update to match your copy ]

A grail for any street art, photography, or fashion archive. Out of print and getting harder to find.