148 pages Text(s) by Robert Kaltenhäuser, François Chastanet and Moses 24 x 17 cm Language: German, English Hardback Publisher: Masmedia.de Edition of 400 copies 2020
A hand-numbered retrospective catalogue of one of German graffiti's most singular figures. Active since the mid-1980s, Mason is among the most incisive writers the culture has produced, and a decisive force in establishing Dortmund — a city with near-untouchable standing in European graffiti history — as a writing centre with its own distinct local style. The book charts his output across more than three decades, organised into four periods that trace, through a tightly selected run of images, the evolution of his letterform and approach.
Its weight comes as much from its framing as its plates: the catalogue is accompanied by texts from Robert Kaltenhäuser, François Chastanet and Moses — writers and scholars who situate Mason within the broader history of European style writing rather than treating the work as mere documentation. Self-published in a strictly limited edition of 400 copies plus artist's proofs, each hand-numbered, and sold through soon after its February 2020 release, it is both a definitive statement on an independent and historically significant artist and a genuinely scarce object.
