DAIM

DAIM ( * 1971 in Lüneburg; actually Mirko Reisser ) is a German graffiti writing artist. He is especially known for his large-scale graffiti work in 3D style. This is regarded as his trademark. Technically he doing one of the best graffiti artists in the world.

4.1 Urban Discipline exhibitions
4.2 tagged in motion & nextwall
4.3 Dock -Art
4.4 Global Mural
4.5 Signs of the Times

Life

1989 emerged the first graffiti works by DAIM, then under the name CAZA writing, which he kept until 1992. As early as 1990 he sprayed first commissioned work, in 1991 he begins directly after completing his baccalaureate to work as a freelance artist and has called himself DAIM. This name, it varies in later years to deim. In 1996 he began the study of fine arts at the School of Art and Design, Lucerne ( Switzerland ). In 1999, Mirko Reisser ( DAIM ) together with the artists Gerrit Peters ( Tasek ) and Heiko Zahlmann ( Rkt one) the studio community getting up in Hamburg. The artist collective has for more than fifteen years of joint projects to which are also international attention. During his artistic career, Mirko Reisser ( DAIM ) has traveled much of the world and participated in a number of museum and gallery exhibitions. He sat at a large number of art projects, some of them as well as the initiator and co-organizer.

Mirko Reisser ( DAIM ) is represented since 2005 by the gallery Reinkingprojekte in Hamburg. Since 2010, the gallery MaxWeberSixFriedrich in Munich.

Work

At the beginning of the 1990s succeeded DAIM graffiti scene with a new style to revolutionize its fame to the artist acquired his signature to create the four letters of his name in three-dimensional Writer style again and again. The Outlines universally used in graffiti letters he did not put a, but the colors were placed by the use of light and shadow effects so that the impression that the letters were floating in space, and are tangible. He is known in the scene as a 3D style. DAIM had drawn photorealistic before the start of his graffiti career and was inspired by artists such as Van Gogh or Dali to neglect the outside lines to give rise to forms rather by shading and thus three-dimensional images.

In hooligan work often involves opposites as the reduction to the four letters of his pseudonym DAIM he designs in complex font structure. The individual letters are constructed and act but often deconstructed.

" DAIM lets his characters disintegrate, shatter, shred, yes downright splatter, as would be only possible in a precious millisecond her sight. Then again, it seems the other way around, as the letter structure of inscrutable, complex structures befände just in a state of formation, nearing completion, to add up to a whole. The program DAIM includes both: the construction, as well as the deconstruction of a word - somewhere, in between the extinction and burn it emerges out of a synaesthetic sphere, the WORD: It was created from nothing and threatens to disappear back there; but the moment in which it is constituted, it seems as if it Outsmart yourself, free and detached from the content load that should transport it actually ... "

The artist manages to letters to construct as architects design forms:

"Through the deconstruction of typography and lettering are the technology -savvy sprayer today as JOKER, DELTA and DAIM in an exciting position. They span a bridge between the deconstructive Derrida 's world, the importance questioned, and by architects such as Lebbeus Woods, Thom Mayne and Zaha Hadid, doubt the form. The result is a hybrid " Typogritektur ", organized in the letters, reorganized and formed into three-dimensional space, without being exposed to the surface constraints that are imposed sprayers, which are dependent on the city and the street. This does not mean that sprayer are no longer dependent on traditional letter- forms - for this they are very comfortable. Through the revelation of the elementary core of the letter formations, the artists are obsessed with their resolution, traditional forms of obeisance, while keeping at the same date and alive. "

The works are directed to a part of the most confident and outward, but it is also always a matter of presenting one's name in a very pleasant manner. In a much more subtle part that comes rather in the working process of the artist appears, of the works, however, are characterized by great restraint by an In -itself - go that can take almost meditative traits.

" My writings are self-portraits. "

" The character of the letter shapes and discover his own doing. Search, try vary, perfect. Try to close the open circle around it again the next zuöffnen. Go one or the other several times to get his to be sure, but also leave him behind when it comes to focus on the new. [ ... ] The world discover and be discovered by you. Searching for a place for himself and his work and find him inside her. Search, try vary, perfect ..... and on and on. "

Besides the classic spray DAIM created since 2007, all the wall pieces of different colored paper and wide - adhesive tapes. Sculptures, objects and 3D relief works are created as well as works on paper and digitally created editions prints.

Early career

The first piece sprayed DAIM together with Björn Warns, which is today as a ship master of the band Fettes Brot known, and his brother, on a power house behind the garden of his parents' house. DAIM, then under the writing name CAZA, sprayed his first, still illegal graffiti work in a time when in Hamburg after a few arrests a low phase in the scene prevailed. American influences by first traveling to the United States played a role, however, the first graffiti book artist was Graffiti Live - The trains belong to us. Thus his style, especially by European and German sprayer was coined. The styles of Loomit, Skena and ZEBSTER, which could be seen at that time in a report on the Munich flea market halls in the star, fascinated him. In the first two years of his career, the artist first learned Hesh and then Loomit, with whom he several large wall works realized later in many countries of the world to know. Hesh was his partner for several years in common, mainly in Hamburg and New York, realized murals.

Illegality

DAIM was taken up again at age 17 in Hamburg and later in New York: 1995 DAIM and HESH caught in spraying a wall of the basketball court at primary school 107 in the Bronx by the police in the act. The artists had to answer charges of criminal damage, trespassing and possession of graffiti materials. The possible sanctions could range from public works up to a year in prison, then reported the spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, Charisse Campbell. Both, however, were released after the negotiations on free foot, since the approval of the art teacher had been obtained in advance.

Crews

DAIM is co-founder of tcd ( trash -can design), the first crew, who belonged to the artist. One of the most famous crews, which DAIM belongs, is the American FX crew. In 1995 he was invited to New York and included in the crew. Other crews: fbi ( Fabulous Bomb Inability ), suk ( Stick -Up Kids), it ( Evil Sons) and gbf ( gummy bears front ).

Projects

DAIM 2009 took part in the project ARTotale University of Lüneburg. 36 international street artists were invited to the city. In 2006 he participated in Hamburg on sculpture project sculpture @ City North. Also, this exhibition was curated by Rik Reinking. He also realized projects with Opel ( with Lena Meyer -Landrut ) and Volvo (Volvo Art Session 2011 and 2013 ) and is co-founder of the Urban Discipline exhibitions.

Urban Discipline exhibitions

The Urban Discipline exhibitions, the first of which was conceptualized in 2000 by DAIM in collaboration with Gerrit Peters and Heiko Zahlmann, curated and organized, are among the world's most important graffiti exhibitions. Os Gêmeos spoke in interviews of a great project. Urban Discipline was one of the first and still the largest ever conducted, graffiti exhibitions, which also helped artists such as Daniel Man and Banksy become an important career step. The organizers, it was important at a time was no longer in the graffiti merely as graffiti, but was still not taken seriously, for its establishment to fight as an art form International stars of the scene came out at the first exhibition in Hamburg. The most important representatives of the international graffiti and street art scene gathered then for the next two years in which the project was still organized by getting-up. 2001 set in the Old Post Office sorting hall at the Hamburger Stephansplatz next Os Gêmeos from Brazil and Martha Cooper in New York, artists from all over the country as well as from Brazil, Austria, France, the U.S. and Switzerland. In 2002, come together again 34 international artists from all over the world to exhibit at 1700 square meters in the Astra Hall, in Hamburg's St. Pauli district.

Tagged in motion & nextwall

Other well-known projects by the artist in collaboration with the agency Jung von Matt / Next for tagged in motion and nextwall. For nextwall a wall of DAIM and other graffiti artists was designed to later add interactive elements such as QR codes and object recognition in the wall, which made it possible to transfer information directly to mobile devices. Tagged in motion was a first experiment to combine augmented reality with graffiti. It was therein by DAIM 3D glasses possible to spray his work in the room and then to look in three dimensions. The video on YouTube reached already in the first days than 500,000 clicks. Numerous Award - starts followed.

Dock -Art

Two and a half years working Mirko Reisser ( DAIM ) and Heiko Zahlmann, as artistic director, in collaboration with Lothar Knode on the project dock type. The 2000 m² graffiti was compared to the Landing Bridges at Hamburg Harbour unveiled at the outer wall of the dock 10, the Blohm Voss shipyard in 2001.

Global Mural

As part of Mural Global, a worldwide Wandmalprojekt to Agenda 21, DAIM realized in 2001, together with the Brazilian graffiti artists Os Gêmeos, Vitché, Herbert Baglione and Nina Pandolfo and with the German graffiti artists Loomit, Codeak and Tasek, a 300 square-foot mural in São Paulo. The mural is located under a viaduct of beneficencia - Portuguesa Hospital on Avenida 23 de Maio and includes the topic of air, earth, water and fire.

80 murals have been created as part of the Global Mural Wandmalprojektes. An initiative of Farbfieber eV Dusseldorf, under the auspices of UNESCO. The project was awarded the Innovation Award 2002 of the socio-cultural fund socio-culture.

Signs of the Times

The artistic direction took DAIM well for signs of the times. The work was given a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the highest graffiti in the world. Together with Darco, Loomit, Hesh and further, under the organizational leadership of Lothar Knode, written in December 1995, the graffiti of a total of 300 m² on a skyscraper facade in Hamburg- Lohbruegge. 1000 Aerosols required the artists for the 30 -meter high and 11 meter wide work of art. It shows a blend of written and pictorial elements as well as quotations from masterpieces of mural painting.

Works in collections

The artist is represented in the following collections (selection):

Collection arsenals Novissimo, Venice
Collection MuCEM, Marseille
Collection ArtFonds21, Frankfurt
Reinking Collection, Hamburg
Collection of the Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main

Exhibitions (selection)

2002: getting-up in SPACE, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.
2003: Young primitive, Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium.
2005: Already awarded - Reinking Collection, Art Cologne, Cologne.
2005: Passion of collecting, collection quill / Reinking Collection, Old Cotton Mill Hall 14, Leipzig.
2006: Minimal Illusions - Working with the Collection Rik Reinking, Villa Merkel, Esslingen.
2007: ID, Kunstverein Buchholz, Buchholz.
2007: tapingDAIM, Reinkingprojekte, Hamburg.
2007: Walls - L' arte al Muro, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy.
2007: Wakin Up Nights, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland.
2007: Still on and non the wiser, Von der Heydt Museum, Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal.
2007: Active constellations, home of the art of the city of Brno, Czech Republic.
2008: Fresh air smells funny, Kunsthalle Dominican church, Osnabrück.
2008: Call it what you like! Collection Rik Reinking, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark.
2009: Urban- Art - Works from the Reinking Collection, Weser Castle Museum of Modern Art, Bremen.
2010: DAIM - coming out, MaxWeberSixFriedrich Gallery, Munich.
2011: Street Art - meanwhile in deepest east anglia, thunderbirds were go ..., Von der Heydt Museum, Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal.
2012: Corner to Corner - Hinz & Kunzt StrassenKunztEdition, copper thieves Gallery, Hamburg.
2013: Abstraction 21 | DAIM & LOKISS, Galerie Hélène Bailly, Paris, France.
2013: POESIA - Works from the Reinking Collection, Municipal Gallery Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst.

Travel and influences on local scenes

In 2001, DAIM toured as part of the Graffiti World Tour many countries worldwide, including Brazil, Mexico, Thailand, Australia and the United States. But before and after this extensive project the artist traveled a lot, so he was perceived internationally and his work left an impression. This also makes the DAIM already from 1996 on one of the first websites on the subject of Graffiti, Art Crimes, and in 1997 presented his work on a dedicated website, led to a high worldwide distribution and recognition.

Although the U.S. is seen as the birthplace of graffiti, reviewed by the U.S. sprayers were quite influenced by trends from Europe. BG138 from the Tats crew confirmed in an interview that Europe would be advanced in some ways, as, for example, with respect to the 3D style and a very cooperative working as DAIM and Loomit they coined. Also created works in Los Angeles and Miami in the United States. Crome, a well-known writer from Miami, talks about DAIM and Loomit to have met and to have been impressed by how much planning they put into their work. The Writer plague of Miami speaks of how DAIM and Loomit came to Miami ( German ) Belton brought cans. Thus, the color palette of the domestic Writer changed.

In Argentina, left DAIM's work traces: The Argentinian graffiti scene started from the early 1990s to develop. Much of this development occurred through the influence of itinerant artist.

But even in Europe, the influence of the work seen. For example, in Switzerland, in the DAIM from 1996 moved to study in Greece or in which he was invited in 1997.

Social

DAIM has already realized several charitable projects during his career: with prisoners youth helfen he cooperated for a project that the visualization of the basic idea of the association included. The association works internally prison and aims to bring young people closer to the everyday life in a correctional facility.

The Jamliner is a project of the National Youth Music School of Hamburg and the music school Business Association, Friends of the Music School. Adolescents aged twelve years from low-income neighborhoods of Hamburg can be as locally and visit free a "rolling music school".

The Graffiti and Street Art Workshop Stylekickz in young people had the opportunity once with professional support to realize an artistic project, to thereby qualify for real-life and relevant topics.

Cooperation with the Hamburg Street Magazine Hinz & Kunzt brought DAIM the first StrassenKunztEdition out. Twice a year, the magazine offers works of street art artists in limited edition for sale.

Similarly, the artists already supported several charity auctions with his works, such as SOS - art pieces, 152 Art goes to school and the art auctions of the Foundation survival.

Movies

The 45 minute documentary shown on NDR 1993 Sprayer accompanied DAIM along with other Hamburg sprayers and examines graffiti as a phenomenon between vandalism and art.
A documentary about the FX crew, directed by Philip Thorne. FX - The Video. ( In English ) Produced by AbstractVideoConnection Inc., Seaford, NY, USA, 1989 Length: 90 min, VHS..

The film Urban Discipline - Graffiti Style Documentation showing the works of and portrays the graffiti artists from around the world who invited DAIM along with getting-up for the exhibition Urban Discipline in 2002 to Hamburg. The final produced DVD is not yet published.
In the film Bomb It, from 2007, is one of the most elaborate and most detailed documentation about the graffiti movement. Old and rare original footage shows some of the best and most famous graffiti artists worldwide.
AlterEgo portrayed in 9 cities in 7 different countries, 17 different graffiti artists. The protagonists speak to use, among others, about their motivation the public space for their personal expression and their view on the role and position of the graffiti in the art world. Published in 2009.
The 90- minute documentary still on and non the wiser to the eponymous exhibition at the Kunsthalle Barmen of the Von der Heydt - Museum Wuppertal is characterized by deeply personal interviews, haunting portraits of the artists and the creative process begins as the work before the exhibition a.
The film everyday DAIM by Christian Brodack, from 2012, depicts the everyday life of the artist and his work during the formation of the first benevolent StrassenKunztEdition, the realized DAIM in cooperation with the Hamburg Street Magazine Hinz & Kunzt.

Publications

DAIM: sketches. In: Back Jumps - sketchbook. 3rd edition, Backjumps, Berlin ( 1999) ISBN 3-9806846-0-1, p 27

Mirko Reisser, Pius Portmann: DAIMMATE: The development of the graffiti. College of Art and Design Lucerne, Lucerne 1997 ( Thesis of Pius Portmann, annual work of Mirko Reisser, full text in the Google Book Search ).

Christian Brodack: DAIM: graffiti -art. Self- Verlag, Hamburg, 1998 ( monograph ).

Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (ed.): Urban Discipline 2000: Graffiti Style. 1 edition. Urban Discipline: Graffiti -Art, No. 1, getting-up, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006154-1 ( exhibition catalog, full text in the Google Book Search ).

Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (ed.): Urban Discipline 2001: Graffiti Style. 1 edition. Urban Discipline: Graffiti -Art, No. 2, getting-up, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-00-007960-2 ( exhibition catalog, full text in the Google Book Search ).

Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (ed.): Urban Discipline 2002: Graffiti Style. 1 edition. Urban Discipline: Graffiti -Art, No. 3, getting-up, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-009421-0 ( exhibition catalog, full text in the Google Book Search ).

Mirko Reisser, Lena Mwinkand, Sarah Behrend: DAIM: daring to push the boundaries. 1 edition. getting-up, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-00-014155-3 ( monograph, full text in the Google Book Search ).

Arne Rautenberg, Anne -Katrin pure linen (ed.): Grenzgaenger: a book about DAIM - mirko reisser. Self- Verlag, Hamburg 2008 ( monograph ).