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 through numerous archive photos. The second volume pays tribute to
friends lost too soon: Risk (Finland), Stone (France), Remo (Switzerland), Math
(Netherlands), Nesh (Austria), Choc (Belgium), Ruzd (Germany), and Aone (United
States). Travels, flashbacks, and the quest that comes to an end. Most of these
trains—painted or not—have now disappeared as well. The two books feature 342
photos across 548 pages, including 100 pages of narrative in French and English.
Produced in a limited edition of 660 copies, the collector’s box set brings together
Painted Graves Volume 1, Painted Graves Volume 2, and Painted Graves – Relics in a
luxurious case.
Relics completes Painted Graves with 7 unpublished texts and 101 photos, compiled in
a 160-page full-color book available exclusively in the box set.
VOLUME I:
300 pages, featuring Opak, Inxs, Honet, Pum, Fancie, Riot, Sime, Milk, Poes, Chill, Acid79, Skeme...
VOLUME II:
248 pages featuring Opak, Risk, Stone, Remo, Math, Nesh, Choc, Ruzd, Aone mais aussi Inxs, Pum, Honet, Riot, Jiwee, Foe, Vino, Kaos, Micro, Lyte, Sharp...
