{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Graffiti, Marker \u0026 Spray Cans"],"cover":{"alt":"Mode2 Interview","height":840,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/mode2-interview/mode2-berlin.jpg","width":1880},"credit":"","date":"2010-12-14T15:15:03Z","description":"Mode2 is one of the most influential European graffiti artists in the last 25 years and is respected for all the fantastic styles he developed. Recently he gave a nice interview about his history...","html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMode2\u003c/strong\u003e is well-known around the world not just for \u003ca href=\"/mode2-nude-urban-art/\"\u003ethat fantastic nude artworks\u003c/a\u003e, but for his amazing character styles he spread throughout Europe as one of the most central figures of European graffiti. In the last months I had the chance to see his latest works twice, first when \u003ca href=\"/mode2-live-painting-photos/\"\u003ehe visited Berlin\u003c/a\u003e and second when \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/streetart-berlin/4889286562/\"\u003epainted under the Westway\u003c/a\u003e in London\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday I found \u003ca href=\"http://www.frank151.com/book/chapter_19_disruptive_pattern_material/kay_one_interviews_mode_2\"\u003ethat nice interview \u003cstrong\u003eKay One\u003c/strong\u003e did with Mode2\u003c/a\u003e in the great depth of my RSS feed reader and I highly recommend to read it, if you like to know more about the history of Mode2 and how graffiti connections were established 25 years ago\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere was a time when you would show up to Covent Garden on a Saturday, show your blackbook, and get so dissed and laughed at if you had stuff that looked like someone else’s, that you would have to go back and find your own. Biting was such a humiliating thing to do then, and nobody wanted to get pulled up on that.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the fanzines in the early 90s, and the websites and jams and all that, people started to get into biting to such a degree that no one seems to care that so much looks the same, and that we don’t have the richness and diversity of the mid ‘80s. If you’re not in that crew, you can’t use that style, that’s it, period. (Mode2)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHave fun reading it!\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\n**Mode2** is well-known around the world not just for [that fantastic nude artworks](/mode2-nude-urban-art/), but for his amazing character styles he spread throughout Europe as one of the most central figures of European graffiti. In the last months I had the chance to see his latest works twice, first when [he visited Berlin](/mode2-live-painting-photos/) and second when [painted under the Westway](http://www.flickr.com/photos/streetart-berlin/4889286562/) in London...\n\nToday I found [that nice interview **Kay One** did with Mode2](http://www.frank151.com/book/chapter_19_disruptive_pattern_material/kay_one_interviews_mode_2) in the great depth of my RSS feed reader and I highly recommend to read it, if you like to know more about the history of Mode2 and how graffiti connections were established 25 years ago...\n\n\u003e There was a time when you would show up to Covent Garden on a Saturday, show your blackbook, and get so dissed and laughed at if you had stuff that looked like someone else’s, that you would have to go back and find your own. Biting was such a humiliating thing to do then, and nobody wanted to get pulled up on that.\n\u003e\n\u003e Since the fanzines in the early 90s, and the websites and jams and all that, people started to get into biting to such a degree that no one seems to care that so much looks the same, and that we don’t have the richness and diversity of the mid ‘80s. If you’re not in that crew, you can’t use that style, that’s it, period. (Mode2)\n\nHave fun reading it!\n","tags":["Interview","Mode2","Graffiti Europe"],"title":"Mode2 Interview","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/mode2-interview/"}