Afgelopen week werd Are You Reading Me? van Laser 3.14 gepresenteerd in de American Book Center op het Spui in Amsterdam. King Adz (speciaal overgevlogen uit London) presenteerde daar het eerste exemplaar. Zijn speech is verderop in dit bericht terug te lezen.

 
‘In the new generation of Amsterdam street artists one man stands out for his literary landmarks: Laser 3.14 is bringing pure poetry back in the streets’ HUGO KAAGMAN

In het ABC Treehouse, een galerie in het centrum van Amsterdam, werd een kleine week voor de verschijning van Are you reading me? een kunstwerk van Laser 3.14 - door een nog onbekende man - beklad. Het kunstwerk, getiteld ‘Scream in silence’, was door de kunstenaar opgedragen aan Theo van Gogh, de in 2004 vermoorde cineast en columnist.



‘Laser’s writing has the function of revealing, in terms of pure art, the secrets of life, its hopes, its joys, its sorrows, its passion; he takes tagging to a different level’ HUSH



‘In a world where all urban communication is based on visual impact it´s amazing to see art that doesn’t need to be visually hi-tech to have such influence. It´s like a counter movement that doesn’t need any artifacts or bullshit to get a point across. It makes optimal use of the environment, the streets, the city and makes them a bit more humanized, melancholic and poetic. Truly inspiring work’ VHILS

SPEECH BY KING ADZ
‘Street art has come a long way since it split from the graffiti scene in the late 1980s. I’ve been watching it carefully since the beginning and have seen it grow into a global movement. Artists come and go. Some stay around and I’ve had the honour of getting down with old school  talents such as Banksy, the London Police, Hugo Kaagman and Shepard Fairey. These are the founding fathers.

The new school, the next generations as it were are snapping at their heels, hungry to get up and make their names. Some have chosen it for a short route to fame but a few are seriously talented and offer some original ideas. Laser 3.14 is one of these. He brings something completely new, something that no-one else is currently doing anywhere in the world. Word of his talent is rapidly spreading and soon he will have imitators trying to jump his game, jump on his style. This book shows the first vital part of his journey. It is important for artists to be acknowledged by the media and most importantly to go down in history in books.’