David Stegmann

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David Stegmann

David Stegmann , alias dust , (born May 29, 1982 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German-Swiss freelance artist and designer . Originally coming from street art , it is assigned to urban art . He paints murals , pictures and designs designer toys . His work is exhibited in numerous galleries around the world.

biography

David Stegmann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau as the son of a painter and sculptor. After completing his degree in graphic design in 2005, he worked as an illustrator in the field of game and educational software development. In addition, since 2000 he has been active as a street artist under the name "dust" . Since 2006 he has been working as a freelance artist and designer with a focus on painting and exhibits in galleries in both Europe and the USA.

Supported by his father, Stegmann began to paint as a child. Among the artists who influenced him he counts Hieronymus Bosch , HR Giger , René Magritte , Moebius but also Caspar David Friedrich and Art Nouveau .

Stegmann lives in Staufen im Breisgau .

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Mural - body being @ Ruhr-Universität, Bochum 2012

Stegmann paints murals in public spaces, paints on canvas, wood or cardboard and designs designer toys. In addition to acrylic , acrylic varnish and ink , he uses various materials, especially so-called Green Stuff , a two-component putty , for modeling , as well as clay, plastic or metal.

His murals and pictures in striking shapes and colors contain elements of both surrealism and contemporary abstraction , the concrete and the fantastic flow together in them.

His designer toys are limited editions, elaborately produced by himself, which are hand-painted and thus represent unique items . The first designer toy collection he produced , the RAS (Radical Action Suit's), was presented in 2006 and marked the beginning of other themed figure editions such as the Minions , Ras2010 , AlterEGO , Dark Maya or "dust: The Teddies - Afraid of dying?" "

Stegmann describes the red thread in his painting as "the return to the origins and nature", to the "symbiosis that man has left". With many of his pictures he wants to draw attention to the destruction of nature caused by humans. His pictures and murals, which he describes as “micro-macro-cosmos games with single- and multicellular cells”, are intended to depict the “state after the apocalypse or the renewed big bang”, in which new life arises. In his vision of life as a harmony between man and nature, people are shown as highly abstract beings who are traced back to their origins, just as animals are robbed of their identity in consumer society. In his work, Stegmann takes the viewer into fantastic spheres and into a world in upheaval . With wild, marbled play of colors, interwoven textures and structures, some of which appear like underwater worlds , plants or explosions, he draws wildly wrestling "body beings ", mythical creatures that let their tentacles circle amoeba, while fat "honeycomb people" hover in between, who seem to be mute Guardians watch the scenery .

Stegmann has also designed various record covers, including a. for the Austrian hip-hop collective Waxolutionists , for whom he created the covers for the album “We paint Colors” (2009), the singles “Dance With Me” (2009), “Flashlight” (2008) and “Feet don't Fail Me ”(2008).

He is also involved in projects in cooperation with various companies, for example he was able to design a backpack for the Eastpak Artist Studio of the American company Eastpak .

Stegmann's work is shown in numerous galleries around the world, both in solo and group exhibitions. These include exhibitions at Art Basel Miami Beach (Miami Beach) in 2009 and 2011, in the Museumsquartier (Vienna), the kunsthalle messmer (Riegel) and the Kunstverein Freiburg (Freiburg).

literature

  • Cristian Campos: 1000 Ideas for Graffiti and Street Art, Ginko Press GmbH, 2011, ISBN 978-1-59253-658-0 , 238, 306-307
  • SNNC - Schwarz auf Weiß # 2, From Here To Fame Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937946-06-1 , pp. 54-55
  • Low Art Magazine # 6, Emil Patzschke GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden July 2010, pp. 32–39
  • SNNC - Black on White # 1, From Here To Fame Publishing, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-937946-18-4 , pp. 120-121
  • Great New Characters, Zeixs, Feierabend Unique Books, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-939998-18-1 , pp. 86–87, 140–141, 538–543
  • C: ART: NET 00, Amniotic Design, Castres (France) 2008, ISBN 978-2-9532989-0-1 , pp. 90-95

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Anne Schreiber: Urban Art. The New Contemporary Art. In: Kunstverein Freiburg. September 2011, accessed March 4, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Alicja Schindler: Street Art-like? In: Artline art magazine. January 31, 2013, accessed March 4, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b Artist Profile: Dust. (No longer available online.) In: Dudebox. Archived from the original on March 22, 2013 ; Retrieved March 7, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dudebox.com
  4. ↑ Dust. (No longer available online.) In: Art Bastard. 2011, archived from the original on October 23, 2012 ; Retrieved March 7, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iloveartbastard.com
  5. ↑ dust, Eliot, Tom Brane | Three angles. (No longer available online.) In: Monopol - magazine for art and life. May 2011, archived from the original on January 18, 2015 ; Retrieved March 7, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monopol-magazin.de
  6. ↑ a b Olaf Ginzel: dust - Dark Maya. (No longer available online.) 44309 Streetart Gallery, December 2012, archived from the original on March 26, 2013 ; Retrieved March 6, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 44309streetartgallery.net
  7. ^ Vinyl Toys, Dust. (No longer available online.) In: superchan.de. Archived from the original on August 28, 2013 ; Retrieved March 7, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.superchan.de
  8. ↑ Ulrike Le Bras: The street artist as a city neurotic. In: Badische Zeitung. June 25, 2010, accessed March 6, 2013 .
  9. ^ Waxolutionists. Supercity, September 1, 2008, accessed March 5, 2013 .
  10. ↑ dust: bag. Eastpak Artist Studio, 2011, accessed March 5, 2013 .
  11. ↑ RUN VIE x STYLE NEEDS NO COLOR International Art Collective. (No longer available online.) RUN VIE, September 2011, archived from the original on July 12, 2012 ; Retrieved March 5, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.runvie.at
  12. ↑ Water: Fantasy and Reality. (No longer available online.) Foundation Messmer, 2011, archived from the original on March 5, 2013 ; Retrieved March 5, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunsthallemessmer.de
personal data
SURNAME Stegmann, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss freelance artist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau