BATES’s exhibition ‘The Way He Writes’ opens THIS FRIDAY August 24, 2012 at HL Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden.
BATES began writing graffiti in his early teens and despite his tender age soon became one of the most prolific artists within Copenhagen’s budding hip-hop scene of the mid 1980-ties. Already in 1989 he was considered among the leading elite of European graffiti artists – including names such as LOOMIT from Germany, MODE 2 and BANDO from Paris, DELTA and SHOE from Amsterdam.
With the internationalization of the European graffiti of the early 1990-ties the rumor of BATES stylistic elegance spread even further and he soon became of the most sought after artists for the big venues around the continent and overseas. In 1998 he was the second artist to be featured in On the Run’s biographical series on international graffiti writers.
In his graffiti art BATES combines a traditionalist New York feeling for style – with an emphasis on a logic flow of letters, dynamic and swinging rhythms of bars and arrows – with a European sense of technique, of sharp lines, with a graphic verve and near flawless can control.
BATES Vernissage: THE WAY HE WRITES
Official opening: Friday 24 August at 19:00!
Dates: 24 August – 13 September, 2012.
HL Gallery/Store
St Eriksgatan 64,
Stockholm
Sweden
More info:
– HLgallery.se/bates/
– The event on Facebook.