Battle of Letters - Rammellzee

Rammellzee by Iris van Gelder

Rammellzee, the New York based artist who died this June was rarely photographed without wearing one of his elaborate science-fiction-inspired masks and costumes - a way of deconstructing the clothing code of modern society.

In his theory of Gothic Futurism he aimed to liberate the mystical power of letters from modern alphabetical standardization. He also had an anarchic plan to revise the role of language in society. In his statement he describes the "academic language" and its verbal absurdity as an exclusion of masses from culture and stacking them into slums and ghettos. For these masses writing=graffiti, and to be able to understand its means one have to communicate with people in poor quarters.

Graffiti artist's symbolic warfare of letters in Budapest