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Rammellzee, Crime of Infinity, 1986 Verso on panel signed 'Rammellzee'.Rammellzee is undoubtedly a very important figure in the graffiti movement. He is the most important within the conceptual tendency of the graffiti movement. In 1982, he appeared in the legendary hip hop documentary Wild Style by Charlie Ahearn, « a successful and sensitive treatment of graffiti writers both as outlaws and as artists ». He had a solo exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum in Helmond (The Netherlands) in 1986, which was very early to be shown in Europe. In 1987, he was shown by Yaki Kornblit in Milan and at the Groninger Museum in Groningen. He is known by a large public and realized works in public spaces, such as at the Frankfurt airport or in a church in Utrecht. Rammellzee was born in 1960 in Queens, New York. He was always very interested in the symbolic value of letters : he saw the letter 'A' as a pyramid and took the letter 'W' with the literal sense of 'double-you'. Rammellzee named his style 'Gothic Futurism' and used the fairly esoteric term of 'Ikonoclast Panzerism'. Rammellzee said himself : « The letter is armed to stop all the phony formations, lies and tricknowlegies placed upon its structure ». « I never met Rammellzee in person », Van Impe recalls, « We talked twenty times on the phone. He was very sceptical about the commercial world. We never ended up organizing a show. The surface of this work is very unusual, it is not a traditional canvas. It makes it more authentic. This attracts me. There is a lot of empty space.» Acrylic and spray paint on carpet on panel 216 x 155 cm 1986