In the early days of graffiti, the ultimate flex in the scene had a name: wholetrain. To paint not just a single carriage but an entire moving vessel from end to end was a feat of scale, coordination, and audacity. Emerging in late-1970s New York, the wholetrain became a rite of passage: it was a moving celebration of collaboration between different artists, friendship, adrenaline, and sheer artistic nerve. When a wholetrain rolled into a station, everyone stopped. It was that powerful.

This spirit of collective creation, risk, and improvisation is the foundation of WHOLETRAINS, a project initiated by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils. He invited close friends, long-time collaborators, and some of the most important graffiti artists today — Barry McGee, OSGEMEOS, and Revok, who in different corners of the world, also grew up working on trains — to take this legendary spirit and twist it into something new. Instead of steel and subway tunnels, the structure unfolds on a long sheet of paper mapping the outline of a real train from Portugal’s Sintra Line.

Cadavre Exquis

In the WHOLETRAINS project, the raw energy of graffiti meets the Surrealists’ favourite game, the cadavre exquis: a chain-reaction artwork where each artist builds on what came before without ever seeing the whole picture. This concept served as inspiration for the project, shaping a seamless clash of styles that only collective creation can produce. And just like a train in motion, WHOLETRAINS keeps unfolding — opening the way for future collaborations and new carriages to come.

Collectible Carriages

Steering this project are none other than Barry McGee, OSGEMEOS, Revok, and Vhils — four artists who have defined entire chapters of graffiti and urban art across continents. Each takes on a carriage, turning the train into a moving constellation of styles, rhythms, and visual frequencies.

Together, they bring WHOLETRAINS to life with the force, velocity, and unpredictability that only decades of shared history can generate. Underdogs is proud to present this project with unique original works, individual editions available for separate acquisition, and full-train editions that unite all carriages into a single unfolding piece.

John Andrew Perello, known as JonOne, is a pioneer of graffiti who emerged from New York’s 1980s scene - crossing paths with Basquiat and Warhol -before moving to Paris in 1987. "Bleu Horizons" distills his signature “tag-as-gesture” into a limited edition that layers sweeping calligraphic strokes, splashes, and drips across a deep field of blues. The work channels the speed and improvisation of the street into a controlled, rhythmic composition, capturing JonOne’s trademark energy while pushing his language of color and movement into a refined, collectible format.

Emerging from Kai Clements’ ongoing exploration of movement, rhythm, and the invisible forces that shape our environment, Mixed Motion unfolds through an intricate network of flowing lines that continuously shift between order and unpredictability. Built through an intuitive process rather than a predetermined pattern, the composition evokes the frequencies, energies, and natural rhythms that exist beneath the surface of our everyday perception.

Characteristic of Clements’ practice, precision and spontaneity coexist within the same visual language. Variations in line density and tonal transitions create a sense of movement and depth, allowing the eye to navigate the composition through moments of tension and release. Balancing structure with fluidity, Mixed Motion reflects on the ever-changing nature of perception, suggesting that harmony is not found in stillness, but in the dynamic equilibrium of opposing forces.