Sascha Düffels

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Sascha Düffels

Sascha Düffels (born August 26, 1976 in Kevelaer ) is a German graffiti writing artist. He often used the pseudonym SATZ in the past.

Life

Düffels grew up in Goch on the Lower Rhine . At the age of six he was interested in drawing. In 1983 his brother Mike, who was two years younger than him, had a tragic road accident and he could see the accident. After the death of his brother, he began intensively to paint figurative representations.

In 1990, Düffels first came into contact with the hip-hop subculture . From 1992 he attended hip-hop events. In addition to worldwide freelance work, his art led him to graffiti and hip-hop jams . Satz belonged to the then KC-Crew (Kings-Circle), whose members came from London, Düsseldorf, Melbourne, Hamburg, Cologne, USA and Goch. In 2006 it was rumored that the phrase belonged to the Banksy organization because image ideas from that time reappeared years later in Banksy images.

In 1998, SATZ and SPUK in Kleve, near the yard (area where trains are parked, mostly for cleaning and maintenance) were picked up by the Graffiti SoKo / Federal Police . The artists had to answer for alleged damage to property, trespassing and the possession of graffiti material. However, the proceedings were discontinued in 2000 by the Kleve public prosecutor.

Today he lives and works in western Münsterland . For a time he was considered very shy of the press, introverted and reserved. Accordingly, little is known about his private life.

public relation

Düffels took an active part in a preventive measure by the Federal Police Office in Kleve in the spring of 2002 to contain illegal graffiti . Together with a second graffiti artist, on the “Open Day” action day at the BPOL-Amt Kleve with a live performance, he made a total of 3 pictures, which were then made available to the public. With this campaign it could be shown that legally sprayed surfaces symbolize the “right way” in the field of graffiti. In the period from September to November 2004 he carried out the subculture hip-hop and its meaning as well as in the prevention of illegal graffiti as part of a workshop in the sofa ( socio- educational support for families, children and young people).

With the Graffiti and Street Art Workshop Graffiti Project Astra , children and young people had the opportunity to realize an artistic project with professional support in order to qualify themselves in real-life topics. The canvas results were exhibited at Museum Goch from May to June 2019 .

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The first graffiti works were created in 1993 . As early as 1995 he sprayed his first commissioned work.

Düffel's works can be understood as his diary, written through the signs of the pictures, in which he processes what he has experienced and learned through the transformation into picture stories. Some of them are images that have their roots deep in Düffel's childhood and adolescence experiences. The pictures often appear very dreary and gloomy. Above all, the faces have a melancholy expression.

SATZ Crew KC (Kings-Circle), to which the artist belonged, took part in the first official national graffiti battle Write4Gold in 2003 . SATZ and his crew took 3rd place (West Düsseldorf) . As a result, the crew was invited to the Splash Festival in Chemnitz to paint another wall there on the festival days.

In July 2002, Düffels and his KC crew painted the “Neue Mitte Kleve” fence with the theme “The city of the future”. The work of art was about 50 meters long and at that time it was the longest graffiti in North Rhine Westphalia that was shown in public.

In 2001, Düffels created two graffiti pictures for the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the head of the Federal Police Office in Kleve. The pictures once traveled to all locations of the federal police offices in Germany. The graffiti pictures are still hanging today at the Federal Police Office in Kleve. (As of February 2020)

Publications

No Perfectionist Art , Pagina-Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-946509-27-1

Web links

Commons : Sascha Düffels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Niederrhein Edition: No perfectionist art. Retrieved March 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Oliver Schwarzkopf: Graffiti Art Netherlands-Holland, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-447-7 . Retrieved April 19, 2020
  3. ↑ City Talk ( edition 7.2020 ) Retrieved on July 22, 2020
  4. ↑ Write4Gold / Official National Graffiti Battle Dusseldorf, participants West , source MZEE .
  5. ^ Sentence in the interview , Falk Schacht , July 5th, 2003 Graffiti-Battle 3rd place. Retrieved April 19, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Düffels, Sascha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES SATZ (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graffiti writing artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Kevelaer