Dare (graffiti artist)

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Dare in his studio in 2008

Dare (actually Sigi (Siegfried) von Koeding ; born September 15, 1968 in Basel , † March 6, 2010 ibid) was a Swiss graffiti-writing artist and curator .

Life

The son of the Swiss author Yvette Amann and the German Rolf Kurt von Koeding began spraying graffiti illegally in 1986. Under the pseudonym Dare , von Koeding, who was also a rock singer, turned his hobby into a profession in 1990 and started as a freelance artist. He sprayed graffiti not only on concrete, but later also on canvases and other objects that were subsequently exhibited in galleries, museums and at trade fairs.

After his first assignment in the Basel media company for the photographer Onorio Mansutti and a large wall design for the community of Münchenstein (1990), he did work such as a stage design for the Béjart Ballet in Lausanne (1992) or the painting of the theater tram on behalf of Migros Northwest Switzerland (1995) with first newspaper reports on a national level, accompanied by television appearances and reports on Swiss television. Increasingly, international projects were added, such as the design of facades, walls and shops in Los Angeles , New York City and Hamburg as well as life paintings with other graffiti artists in Paris , Barcelona , Zagreb and Næstved (Denmark). At the graffiti exhibition Concrete or Wallpapers 2001 in the Swiss Embassy in London , Dare met his English colleague Banksy , whom he invited to his first exhibition in Germany, the Urban Discipline 2002, in Hamburg, where both of them together with Os Gemeos , DAIM , Loomit , Alexone, H. Beikirch, ZEDZ and others exhibited.

In 2007, Dare and his friend Toast designed the 200 m² Sachs apartment in Velden Castle on Lake Wörthersee for the industrial heir and photographer Gunter Sachs . The project was documented photographically by Sachs for the magazine Architectural Digest .

At the Baselworld 2007 watch and jewelry fair , the Swiss watch brand Pierre DeRoche presented its watch collection, limited to eleven examples, with dials hand-painted by Dare with a “spray happening” in the presence of the artist. The Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig showed from March to June 2008 See images of Dare in the exhibition Art is female. In Kurt Aeschbacher's talk show on SRF1 on April 15, 2009, Sigi von Koeding explained his career from an illegal “smear” to a recognized artist under the motto “Grown-ups”.

Mourning for Dare 2010

On March 6, 2010, Dare died of complications from a brain tumor . He was buried in the Hörnli cemetery in Basel . In 2011, the commissioned work for Gunter Sachs, who has now also died, is posthumously classified in the Financial Times as "one of the best examples of interior graffiti".

Dare retrospective on the occasion of the commemorative event in 2016

On the 6th anniversary of Dare's death, an exhibition took place in the Brasilea Foundation on the banks of the Rhine in Basel in spring 2016 .

literature

  • Beat Suter, Sigi von Koeding: Swiss Graffiti. 1st edition, Edition Aragon (1998) ISBN 3-89535-461-9 .
  • Bernhard van Treeck : Writer Lexicon: American Graffiti. 1st edition. Edition Aragon, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89535-428-7 , p. 40.
  • Bernhard van Treeck: The great graffiti lexicon. Lexikon-Imprint-Verlag, Berlin (2001) ISBN 3-89602-292-X , p. 82.
  • Mirko Reisser , Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2000: Graffiti-Art . 1st edition. Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 1 . getting-up , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006154-1 , p. 62 ( limited preview in Google book search [accessed on February 2, 2013] exhibition catalog).
  • Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2001: Graffiti-Art . 1st edition. Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 2 . getting-up, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-00-007960-2 , p. 78 ( limited preview in Google book search [accessed on February 2, 2013] exhibition catalog).
  • Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2002: Graffiti-Art . 1st edition. Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 3 . getting-up, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-009421-0 , p. 14 ( limited preview in Google book search [accessed on February 2, 2013] exhibition catalog).
  • Kai Hendrik Schlusche: StreetArt Basel and Region, The Hot-Spots in the Dreiländereck ; Publishing house GUDBERG NERGER Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-945772-00-3
  • Yvette Amann and Dieter Buchhart : DARE to be different - Sigi von Koeding 1968-2010 , Publikat Verlag Mainaschaff 2016, ISBN 978-3-939566-44-1
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility, noble houses, volume XXXI 2009, complete series volume 147, page 216

Web links

Commons : Dare  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Marzahn: "The Sprayer of Basel" in Basler Stadtbuch 2010 of the Chr. Merian Foundation, p. 153
  2. ↑ Memories of Basel's graffiti legend “Dare” in: Badische Zeitung v. Sept 15, 2018
  3. ↑ “The Sprayboys”, photos by or an interview with Gunter Sachs in: Architectural Digest, issue Sept. 2007, p. 152ff
  4. ↑ Youtube video with Gunter Sachs interview on Dare
  5. ^ "Invitation Happening" by Pierre deRoche, Saturday April 14, 2007 at 6.15 PM, Basel, exhibition grounds
  6. ^ "Art is feminine", program booklet for the Gunter Sachs retrospective, Leipzig, 2008
  7. ^ Dare - The legacy of the "Godfathers of Style" In: Basler Zeitung, March 10, 2010
  8. ↑ Victoria Maw: "Off the wall" in: Financial Times v. July 15, 2011
  9. ↑ “Being different as a reverse risk”, in Badische Zeitung v. 2nd April 2016
  10. ↑ Basellandschaftliche Zeitung: The heretic with the spray can, accessed on April 12, 2016
  11. ^ Badische Zeitung: Sigi von Koeding - Graffiti as an urban spectacle, accessed on April 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Dare
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koeding, Sigi von (nickname); Koeding, Sigfried von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss graffiti artist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th September 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2010
Place of death Basel Switzerland