René Turrek

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René Turrek (* 1977 in Osnabrück ) is a German graffiti artist

life and work

Since he was 16, Turrek has been spraying highway bridges and baffles with graffiti at night under the sprayer name "West". Because of damage to property, he received a two-year suspended sentence in a Bad Iburg court. He began to study German art history and illustration, which he broke off. At the age of 20 Turrek received his first orders for graffiti on canvas, later for external facades such as the 40 balconies of the Dörenbergklinik in Bad Iburg. In the clinic he showed his work for the first time in an exhibition. Further participation in group exhibitions in Amsterdam, Brighton and Copenhagen followed.

Turrek made portraits of Mark Forster , Robin Schulz , Snoop Dogg , Bruce Darnell , Rafael van der Vaart , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Victoria Beckham , Paris Hilton , David Garrett , Jürgen Drews , Ralf Schumacher , the band Culcha Candela , Bushido and among others Albert von Thurn and Taxis . He showed some of them in the “Wall of Fame” exhibition in Berlin, Dubai and Los Angeles.

In 2012 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld he attempted a world record for an entry in the Guinness Book of Records under the heading “World's largest graffiti” by designing the outer wall of the local “climbing factory” with a 640 m² work . In 2014, together with 575 trainees from the Daimler AG locations in Wörth, Gaggenau and Mannheim and other participants, he attempted another world record attempt, in which a 16 m² picture was created with a time limit of 15 seconds per participant. In 2014 he realized two murals on the 45th floor of the Empire State Building in New York City.

In April 2018, in his first solo exhibition in Hamburg's “Apartimentum”, he showed numerous copies of masterpieces by established artists from the Chinese artist village of Dafen , which he had used as starting points for his own interpretations and provided with graffiti. From August to October 2018 his exhibition "Opposites attract" followed in the Kurländer Palais in Dresden .

Turrek's main occupation is the custom painting of high-priced automobiles. He developed a UV- resistant thermal lacquer that changes its color when it comes into contact with hot and cold water. Here, a temperature between 18 and 78 degrees can be determined, from which small crystals set up in the paint and make the layers of paint underneath visible. At temperatures below a certain number of degrees, the crystals lay back on the ground. In many of his painting work, Turrek's actual artistic spray design is only optically exposed under the influence of heat. He also developed a paint that reacts to noises and music and can be made to glow via electromagnetic impulses.

He also used headphones, cell phone cases, sneakers, skateboards, coffee mugs and toilets as image carriers, for which he received design contracts from large companies such as Sony , Adidas , Nike , Starbucks and Bench . Also, Tom Tailor , the Postbank , Stadtwerke Osnabrück, the Hilton properties and Mattel and Nikon took his services. For the 2017 Paramount Pictures film Transformers: The Last Knight , he created the design for the leader of the Autobots, "Optimus Prime". His clients include numerous celebrities such as Vin Diesel , Gigi Hadid , Robert Downey Jr. , Snoop Dogg , Rihanna , Michael Jordan , Paris Hilton , Justin Bieber , Marco Reus , Flo Rida , the ruling family of the Emirate of Dubai and others.

family

René Turrek grew up in Bad Iburg . He is married and has two children.

various

In 2016, Turrek was the patron of the Osnabrück District Youth Prize .

He had appearances in television programs such as Red.STYLE ( Sixx , October 2015), Grip - Das Motormagazin ( RTL II , February 2016), Volle Kanne ( ZDF , July 2018), taff ( ProSieben , August 2018) and 17:30 Sat. 1 (August 2018). Turrek's video, which shows his work “The First Avenger” from 2015 on a Lamborghini , was viewed over 1.7 million times on YouTube (as of May 2019).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b René Turrek. Bad Iburg. In: thermcode.com
  2. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Art out of the can - legal and world famous. ) In: NDR from February 10, 2015.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ndr.de
  3. ↑ a b Glows in time with the music: Osnabrücker invents special car paint. In: 17:30 Sat.1 from August 22, 2018, 3:17 min.
  4. ↑ a b Volker Peschel: "Grandpa was a football god, I paint naked angels". In: Bild (newspaper) from April 12, 2018
  5. ↑ a b René Turrek and his grandpa, the football god Toni Turek. In: Top Magazin from July 12, 2018.
  6. ↑ Stefanie Adomeit: Colorful art on the facade of the Dörenberg Clinic in Iburg . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from April 20, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b c René Turrek portrays celebrities from rapper Snoop Dogg to politician Hans-Dietrich Genscher . In: Zeitungsverlag Waiblingen from February 26, 2011.
  8. ↑ a b c Katrin Koch: World famous graphic artist is coming to Saxony! In: TAG24 of July 21, 2018.
  9. ↑ René Turrek tries to set a world record with the spray can in Cologne. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 27, 2012.
  10. ↑ Pimp my training workshop. In: IG Metall @ Daimler from June 4, 2014.
  11. ↑ Marcus Tackenberg: René Turrek: I was a millimeter from jail. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from July 11, 2015.
  12. ^ A b Claudia Schulz: Art by Shooting Star René Turrek in Hamburg. In: Ganz-hamburg.de from April 13, 2018.
  13. ↑ a b René Turrek . In: atelierbesuche.com from August 4, 2017.
  14. ↑ Elmar Stephan: When the car changes color in the heat. In: Die Welt from November 1, 2015.
  15. ↑ Noah Sewöster: "The First Avenger" by Rene Turrek. In: mrgoodlife.net of July 31, 2015.
  16. ↑ a b How the pony car becomes a chameleon. In: auto motor und sport from December 9, 2015.
  17. ^ Peter Bühler, Patrick Schlaich, Dominik Sinner: Media Marketing: Branding - Advertising - Corporate Identity. Springer-Verlag, 2019, ISBN 3-66255-395-3 , p. 65.
  18. ↑ Jack Millner: The chameleon Lamborghini: Vehicle changes color to reveal a Captain America design thanks to heat-sensitive paint. In: Daily Mail of August 1, 2015.
  19. ↑ Osnabrücker designs cars for the Transformers movie. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from June 16, 2017.
  20. ↑ Jan Flemming: Graffiti artist René Turrek: This Osnabrücker want the really big stars. In: RTL Nord from January 29, 2018.
  21. ^ Graffiti artist René Turrek is the patron of this year's youth development award. In: Osnabrück district of February 4, 2016.
  22. ↑ Rene Turrek: The Sprayer of the Stars in Abu Dhabi. In: Red.STYLE , episode 13 from October 19, 2015.
  23. ↑ Wonderful paint for the car. In: Grip - Das Motormagazin , episode 347 from January 17, 2016, 9:48 min.
  24. ↑ René Turrek in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  25. ↑ René Turreks crazy sound lacquer . In: taff from August 6, 2018, 3:04 min.
  26. ^ Lamborghini changes color. "The First Avenger" by René Turrek and Grobbins paint center . In: YouTube from July 18, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Turrek, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graffiti artist and vehicle painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück