Writing Stories With Three Letters

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Egs' universe is grounded in the use of the three letters in his name . Whether it's his dynamic ink drawings, the slower but even more hard-to-control media of glass or a classic grafiti painting, those three letters are the fundament of his art and the stories he tells. As one of the first clearly graffiti-rooted artists in Scandinavia, Finnish contemporary artist Egs had a major solo show in Helsinki's Kunsthalle in 2018. In the spring of 2020 he ia exhibited at the Finnish Glass Museum in Rihima. While showing works in museums and galleries internationally, EGS still keeps painting graffiti on the streets around the world. He has become an important figure in the international graffiti community. Both for the quality of his work, but also for an intellectual vibe that goes like a red thread through all of his work, strengthen their output as well as being an open, curious and generous person, doing pieces in the most diverse parts of the world with great respect for the context