2001. After a decade of railway graffiti, Opak and the SDK crew stop painting trains
in France, caught up in the legal system. Twelve years later, SNCF accelerates the
scrapping of the country’s most beautiful trains and officially announces the death
of the famous “petits gris.” That’s the trigger—Opak goes on a quest to paint all
these legendary trains one last time. In the form of a logbook, Olivier Scuro reveals
in the first volume of Painted Graves the details of this adventure and its origins in
the 1990s. At the time, the most talented graffiti writers from the international scene
join them on their missions. Among them, Risk (Finland), Stone (France), Remo
(Switzerland), Math (Netherlands), Nesh (Austria), Choc (Belgium), Ruzd
(Germany), and Aone (USA)… All passed away at the height of their passion. In
Painted Graves Volume 2, Olivier Scuro keeps digging into graffiti archives and pays
tribute to friends lost too soon: travels, flashbacks, and the quest that comes to an
end. Most of these trains—painted or not—have now disappeared as well. 248 pages
featuring Opak, Risk, Stone, Remo, Math, Nesh, Choc, Ruzd and Aone, but also Kaos,
Micro, Lyte, Sharp, Rough, Jiwee, Inxs, Pum, Honet, Riot, Foe, Vino… Text in English
and French.
