Inside the world of New York underground artist Rammellzee, with never-before-published texts and archival photography that capture the energy and speed of his practice
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / 150 color / 50 bw. | 11/10/2026 | Awaiting stock $49.95
Published by JRP|Editions. Edited by Clément Dirié, Hugo Vitrani. Text by Edit deAk, Patrick Chamoiseau, Vittorino Curci, Cédric Fauq, Sylvère Lotringer, Rammellzee, Greg Tate, Rose Vidal, Hugo Vitrani.
This groundbreaking publication offers a complete overview of Rammellzee (1960–2010), the renegade, impossible-to-pin-down artist from the 1980s New York underground scene. His work unites the speed of the New York subway, aeronautics, quantum mechanics, the heritage of Italian Futurism, the nasal intonation of “gangsta duck” and the toxic qualities of spray paint and resin. Organized chronologically, meticulously locating Rammellzee in art and cultural history, this volume gathers reprints of rare key texts on Rammellzee by art critic and writer Edit deAk, philosopher and founder of Semiotext(e) Sylvère Lotringer, poet and musician Vittorino Curci and writer and music critic Greg Tate, as well as newly commissioned essays by philosopher Patrick Chamoiseau, Bordeaux’s CAPC chief curator Cédric Fauq, writer Rose Vidal and Palais de Tokyo’s curator Hugo Vitrani. Extensive documentation of artworks, ephemera, archives and more highlight Rammellzee’s cryptic yet mesmerizing practice, which spanned theoretical and poetic writing, painting, sculpture, music, performance, film, costumes and jewelry.
