MOSES & TAPS™ a world renowned collective of german artists that have been designing public space since 1994.
They met in 2007 and have since worked as an artist collective with several pseudonyms.
As TOPSPRAYER™ they developed the ambitious project to paint 1,000 trains in 1,000 days, using each other’s names.
This led to the publication of their first book, “INTERNATIONAL TOPSPRAYER™“, the most commercially successful graffiti book to date.
They have spread their names through tags, throw-ups and pieces all over the world and are the first graffiti-writers to have claimed authorship of pieces solely based on distinctive colors - yellow and cyan blue - which they call “CORPORATE IDENTITY™”.
In the span of almost 30 years of continued outdoor and indoor work, MOSES & TAPS™ are world-renowned and celebrated for their balancing act between the consistent development of graffiti and their conceptual strength. Beyond being leaders of a generation of graffiti writers, their influence reaches areas such as graphic design, visual arts, advertising, fashion and more. In their artistic process MOSES & TAPS™ dedicate themselves to different series of work.
One of the most famous, the SPLASH™ series, was born in 2010 as a visual declaration against “rules” in graffiti writing.
The Splashes are the visualization of their harsh criticism of the stagnation of graffiti and, in their reading, the logical end of
aesthetics-based graffiti.
In the context of their artist residency in Reggio in the summer of 2023, MOSES & TAPS™ dedicated themselves to the further
development of their SPLASH™ concept and created the new series of works LIQUID CRYSTAL™.
In their exhibition at SpazioC21, MOSES & TAPS™ are now showing these works for the very first time.