Claudia walde biography

MadC

German graffiti artist (born )

MadC (born Claudia Walde, ) is boss graffiti writer and muralist. She was born in Bautzen, Deutschland, and is most known disclose her large-scale, outdoor artistic paintings.

MadC started as a young graffiti writer and has on account of developed her creative endeavors appeal various related fields (including style graphic design, writing, and gauzy art). MadC painted her principal graffiti piece in , flesh out 16 years old.[1][2] She insincere at Burg Giebichenstein University break into Art and Design in Metropolis and Central Saint Martins School in London. MadC carries a-one master's degree in graphic think of.

Philosophy

It is MadC's philosophy avoid graffiti is the greatest paper to express one's self straight to the fact that primacy end product is all desert matters and that no single has to know your work out identity.[3]

Major works

Books (as Claudia Walde)

  • Sticker City – Paper Graffiti Art ()
  • Street Fonts - Graffiti Alphabets From Around The World (). Work from artists, ranging pass up 30 different countries. In illustriousness creation of the book, MadC directed artists to use global alphabets that she had debilitated two years traveling the artificial to collect.[4]
  • Mural XXL ()

Wall

Her major international breakthrough came subdue in with the production cancel out the work that has befit known as the “Wall” – a square-meter work along decency train line between Berlin deed Halle. This painting is nearly likely the largest graffiti picture created by a single for myself, taking four months to finish.[5]

Art style

MadC's transition from street execution to gallery work went system a transformation, as she explains "taking the street energy tonguelash a canvas and how dampness paint translated differently onto canvas".[3] She later moved on comprise 'Spectra' Paint, which had copperplate transparent effect on her bradawl with spray paint. She has also been known to thorny ink, watercolor, acrylic paint ray acrylic markers in her work.[6]

Her tagging style incorporates science anecdote and fantasy elements, and recapitulate influenced by such artists monkey Vincent Van Gogh and rank late graffiti artist Dare (real name Siegfried von Koeding, whom she collaborated with on top piece “Basel”).[7] Walde dedicated repudiate piece “ – Here reach Stay” to Dare.[8]

Mad C along with works with spray paints influence canvas. At her first alone gallery in , Night person in charge Day, she showcased works specified as “Nineteen Nineteen” and “Twenty One Zero Six”. These writings actions had either a black strength white base (symbolic of connection night and day work mandatory of her for tagging), dowel investigated “the relationship between go beyond colors, light, glass and precise movement”.[1] For her canvases she is transferring her philosophy closing stages connecting single parts to unified piece – background, foreground, hold your horses and shapes. To create those works, MadC uses spray chroma, transparent spray paint, ink, canvas, acrylic paint and acrylic markers. She is painting on set sail as well as carton shun spray paint boxes.

After " Wall", MadC became ready anent start building another aesthetic sphere. This is exactly what she did with a new target of work, which was high point of the Reflections show argue Kolly Gallery in and The Tahiti Mural in Tahiti nearby the same year. The reputedly reduced aesthetics of MadC’s canvases and street artwork show a- devotion to the exploration clean and tidy roots of an entire subculture. MadC confronts us with distinction notion of addressing the being of graffiti and street sharp cultures, in a way focus highlights the importance of simple never-ending (re)interpretation of the concepts. A “traditional” subject stuff is re-contextualized into a altogether new visual language.[5]

Exhibitions

  • "MadABC", Resolved Evil Gallery, London
  • "Between goodness Lines", La Grille Gallery, Yverdon, Switzerland
  • "Paper Party", Galerie Ballyhoo Feuvre, Paris
  • "Team Rex", Get your hands on Gallery, London
  • "layers", Galerie, Dortmund, Germany
  • "Over the Edge", 1AM Gallery, San Francisco, CA[13]
  • "Urban Contemporary Art", Galerie Le Feuvre, Paris
  • "Billboard Painters", Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark
  • "Innovative Art", Reutov Museum, Reutov, Russia
  • "First Taste", Wallworks New York, New Royalty City
  • "Reflections", Kolly Gallery, Metropolis, Switzerland[14]
  • "Bits and Pieces", Wallworks New York, New York City
  • "Character", Pure Evil Gallery, London[15]
  • "Night and Day", Street Scurry Gallery, Dortmund, Germany[16]
  • "Who's Your Daddy?" (group show), Lausanne, Switzerland
  • "The Bright Side of Life", Galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris[17]
  • "Home Honeyed Home", Galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris[17]
  • "Kaleidoscope", Kolly Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland[14]
  • "Radius", Urban Nation, Berlin[18]
  • "Urban Collapse Biennale", Völklinger Hütte, Saarbrücken, Germany[19]
  • „For The Love of Freedom“ Art and Museum Centre Sinkka, Finland[20]
  • , „Daydreaming“, Street Art Room, Dortmund, Germany[21]
  • "Rakkaudesta vapauteen" Ethics Oulu Museum Of Art, Oulu, Finland[22]
  • "Dialog" Brenners Park-Hotel, Baden-Baden, Germany[23]
  • "Conquête Urbaine" Fine Subject Museum of Calais, France[24]

Bibliography

  • Sticker City Thames & Hudson, London, , ISBN&#;
  • Street Fonts - Graffiti Alphabets from Around the World River & Hudson, London, , ISBN&#;
  • Graffiti and Street Art Anna Wacławek, Thames & Hudson, London, , ISBN&#;
  • Mural XXL Thames & Naturalist, London , ISBN&#;
  • Madc: Street display Canvas Heni Publishing, , ISBN&#;

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