Tasek

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Tasek (* 1973 in Braunschweig ; actually Gerrit Peters ) is a graffiti artist, illustrator and graphic designer. He has lived and worked in Hamburg since 1997 .

Life

The first graffiti work in public space began in the mid-1980s.

In 1999 Tasek founded the getting-up studio community in Hamburg together with the artists Mirko Reisser (DAIM) and Heiko Zahlmann . For more than fifteen years, the artist collective has been realizing projects that have also attracted international attention.

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“Gerrit Peters, alias TASEK, also began his artistic career as a graffiti artist in the 80s. The content of his art is always the creative disregard of socially imposed limits. TASEK breaks through stylistic and methodological boundaries, combining spray technology with the technique of screen printing. This can also be seen in his two works “minimal” and “screensaver”, topics such as overinformation, mass society, excess and consumption play a central role in TASEK's art. With typographical means, clear colors and reduced forms, TASEK sets a counterpoint to the flood of information in public space. "

- Markus Lojen: White tigers, graffiti and Buddhist gods , University of Mannheim, August 2012.

His works are represented in art collections, including the Reinking Collection .

Projects

In 2006 Tasek took part in the sculpture @ CityNord sculpture project in Hamburg, curated by Rik Reinking . In 2007 he realized a sculpture made of 3000 PET bottles as part of the Dockville art camp in Hamburg.

Urban Discipline exhibitions

The Urban Discipline exhibitions, the first of which was conceptualized, curated and organized by Gerrit Peters in collaboration with Heiko Zahlmann and Mirko Reisser in 2000 , are among the most important graffiti exhibitions worldwide. Os Gêmeos spoke of a great project in interviews. Urban Discipline was one of the first and still largest graffiti exhibitions ever carried out, which also helped artists like Daniel Man and Banksy to take an important career step. It was important to the organizers to fight for its establishment as an art form at a time when graffiti was no longer just a scribble but was still not really taken seriously. International stars of the scene came to Hamburg for the first exhibition. The most important representatives of the international graffiti and street art scene then gathered for the next two years, during which the project was still organized by getting-up . In 2001, Os Gêmeos from Brazil and Martha Cooper from New York, artists from all over the republic as well as from Brazil, Austria, France, the USA and Switzerland exhibited in the Alte Postortierhalle on Hamburg's Stephansplatz . In 2002 again 34 international artists from all over the world came together to exhibit on 1700 square meters in the Astra halls in the Hamburg district of St. Pauli.

Mural Global

As part of Mural Global , a worldwide Wandmalprojekt to Agenda 21 , Tasek realized in 2001, together with the Brazilian graffiti artists Os Gêmeos , Vitché , Herbert Baglione and Nina Pandolfo and with the German graffiti artists Loomit , Codeak and DAIM , a 300 m² mural in São Paulo. The mural is located under a viaduct of the Beneficência Portuguesa hospital on Avenida 23 de Maio and includes the theme of air, earth, water and fire . 80 murals have so far been created as part of the Mural Global mural project .

An initiative of Farbfieber eV Düsseldorf, under the patronage of UNESCO . The project was awarded the Socioculture Innovation Prize 2002 by the Socioculture Fund.

Dock Art

Tasek realized the Dock-Art project in a team of 9 other artists, in collaboration with Lothar Knode . The 2000 m² graffiti was unveiled in 2001 opposite the Landungsbrücken at the Port of Hamburg on the outer wall of Dock 10 of the Blohm + Voss shipyard .

Social

Together with the getting-up studio community, Tasek has already implemented several charitable projects: he cooperated with Gefangene haben helfen Jungs eV on a project that included the visualization of the basic idea of ​​the association. The association works within the prison and aims to bring young people closer to everyday life in a correctional facility.

The Jamliner is a project of the State Youth Music School Hamburg and the MusikSchulVereins eV , the sponsoring association of the youth music school. Young people from the age of twelve from socially disadvantaged districts of Hamburg can attend a “rolling music school” directly on site and free of charge.

With the graffiti and street art workshop Stylekickz , once a year young people had the opportunity to realize an artistic project with professional support in order to gain qualifications in real-life topics.

Exhibitions

  • 2000: Urban Discipline 2000 , Thomas I-Punkt Halle, Hamburg.
  • 2001: Urban Discipline 2001 , Alte Postortierhalle am Stephansplatz, Hamburg.
  • 2002: getting-up , FREIRAUM, Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg .
  • 2002: Urban Discipline 2002 , Bavaria-Halle, Hamburg.
  • 2005: Smell of paint in the air , Hall K3, Kampnagel, Hamburg.
  • 2005: Passion of collecting , old cotton spinning mill, Halle 14 , Leipzig.
  • 2005: Smell of paint in the air , Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow.
  • 2005: getting-up , Gallery K31, Lahr.
  • 2006: Minimal Illusions - Works from the Rik Reinking Collection , Villa Merkel , Esslingen.
  • 2006: Coming Soon… , Blashofer Project Space, Berlin.
  • 2007: Wakin Up Nights , de Pury & Luxembourg , Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 2007: Still on and non the wiser , Von der Heydt-Museum , Kunsthalle Barmen , Wuppertal.
  • 2007: We are the people darker than blue , Stilwerk, Hamburg.

Publications

  • Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2000: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 1 . getting-up , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006154-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search - exhibition catalog).
  • Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2001: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 2 . getting-up, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-00-007960-2 ( limited preview in the Google book search - exhibition catalog).
  • Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2002: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 3 . getting-up, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-009421-0 ( limited preview in Google book search - exhibition catalog).

literature

  • Gerhard Finckh , Toke Lykeberg: still on and non the wiser: an exhibition with selected urban artists. 1st edition. Publikat Verlag, Mainaschaff 2008, ISBN 978-3-939566-20-5 (exhibition catalog).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard van Treeck: The large graffiti lexicon. Lexikon-Imprint-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-292-X , p. 380.
  2. ↑ Second part of the world record painting  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendblatt.de  In: Hamburger Abendblatt. No. 86 of April 11, 2001, p. 15.
  3. ↑ Further information under: The studio community. getting-up: Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann, accessed on April 28, 2013 .
  4. ^ Graffiti in Hamburg. Art in public space. Schirmer Medienservice, accessed on April 28, 2013 .
  5. ↑ And about projects on: Press releases. Small selection. getting-up: Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann, accessed on April 28, 2013 .
  6. ↑ sculpture @ CityNord. Hamburg 2006. (No longer available online.) Landowners Interest Group City Nord GmbH, August 2006, archived from the original on November 27, 2015 ; Retrieved July 10, 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.sculpture-citynord.de
  7. ^ Eva Martens, Petra Nietzky, Rik Reinking: sculpture @ CityNord: The temporary sculpture project 2006. 1st edition. Galerie Peter Borchardt, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937014-53-1 (exhibition catalog).
  8. ↑ Florian Merkel: Dockville Art Camp : What you shouldn't miss , Mopo.de, July 27, 2012.
  9. ↑ a b Funny spraying: The international graffiti elite meets at the Urban Discipline-Art on June 15. in the Thomas-I-Punkt-Halle. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. Live June 15, 2000.
  10. ↑ Julia Reinecke: Street Art: A Subculture Between Art and Commerce . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-759-2 , p. 35 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  11. ↑ Os Gemeos in an interview. Kirchner, Marc, April 9, 2010, accessed on July 1, 2013 : “Yes, this exhibition was very important for us. And we are still very grateful for this opportunity back then. There, too, we got to know a lot of interesting writers from Germany and all over Europe. Thanks to DAIM , Tasek, Daddy Cool , Stohead and many others who worked really hard for it. We know that, it was a feat to make it all possible. Everything went very well, everyone helped everyone, no competition among each other, it was really a very good atmosphere. It was nice to be able to make our contribution and to be able to show a piece of Brazilian graffiti as part of the exhibition. We noticed very quickly that many did not even know that there was graffiti in Brazil, let alone something of life with us. Some of them didn't understand our work at all back then. We still have a lot of respect for what happened in Hamburg back then. A great project with a great story behind it. Urban Discipline has actually been one of the first and still largest gallery exhibitions that have combined graffiti art, style and a professional presentation perfectly and successfully. For many this event was an important step for more, Daniel Man , DAIM and also Banksy ! "
  12. ↑ Graffiti exhibition HH: Graffiti is no longer just signs smeared on house walls. However, graffiti is still not taken seriously. The organizers of the Hamburg exhibition Urban Discipline are fighting for graffiti to be recognized as an art form. This is not new, but it requires constant re-examination and discussion. In: DE: BUG magazine for electronic aspects of life. July 19, 2002 ( online , accessed February 2, 2013).
  13. ↑ Anna von Villiez: Hello, here I am: Maximum HipHop: the world's most famous graffiti artists are coming to Hamburg. In: TAZ, the daily newspaper. Kultur, taz Hamburg from June 14, 2000.
  14. ↑ Anne of Villiez: Sprayed utopias: Plastic imagery from Sao Paulo: "Os Gemeos" in the graffiti exhibition at Stephansplatz. In: TAZ, the daily newspaper. Kultur, taz Hamburg from June 14, 2001.
  15. ↑ Stefan Krulle: Fine can paintings. Best before: June 18: Hot spray continues: International graffiti art in the old mail sorting hall on Stephansplatz. In: The world. Features from June 12, 2001.
  16. ↑ Images, determined by feeling: Every line counts in the Urban Discipline 2002 Graffiti Art ... In: Hamburger Abendblatt. Live June 20, 2002.
  17. ↑ Farbfieber eV (Ed.): Who Owns the World? Mural-Global: Worldwide mural project on Agenda 21 . 1st edition. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2002, ISBN 978-3-89861-111-4 , p. 156 ff .
  18. ^ Mural Global. Sao Paulo - Hildesheim Hospital Beneficencia Portuguesa. Farbfieber eV, 2002, archived from the original ; accessed on February 4, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Hamburg and the world as a giant painting in the harbor. In: The world. May 4, 2001, p. 48.
  20. Jump up ↑ Dock 10 - The new gem in the port. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. No. 85 of April 10, 2001, p. 13.
  21. ↑ Dock 10, Part two of the world record painting. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. No. 86 of April 11, 2001, p. 15.
  22. ↑ Prisoners help young people. getting-up, May 12, 2000, accessed on July 14, 2013 : "Artists: DAIM , Daddy Cool , Stohead , Tasek, Trol, Seak " Prisoners help young people "Hamburg, 02.2000, realization in the JVA - Santa Fu."
  23. ↑ Jamliner. getting-up, May 18, 2001, accessed on July 14, 2013 : “Hamburg's musical bus line. getting-up designed both buses that are on the road for the Jamliner project in Hamburg. "
  24. ↑ Stylekickz. getting-up, May 18, 2001, accessed July 14, 2013 .
  25. ↑ Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2000: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 1 . getting-up , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006154-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search - exhibition catalog).
  26. ↑ Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2001: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 2 . getting-up, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-00-007960-2 ( limited preview in the Google book search - exhibition catalog).
  27. ↑ Silke Schlichting: Legal facade design: formerly a sprayer, now a commercial artist: a studio community shows their graffiti in the Museum of Art and Industry. In: TAZ, the daily newspaper. Hamburg, April 25, 2002.
  28. ↑ Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2002: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 3 . getting-up, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-009421-0 ( limited preview in Google book search - exhibition catalog).
  29. ↑ Against the wall. Wakin 'up Nights at de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich. ArtNet, March 20, 2007, accessed on January 27, 2014 .
  30. ^ Galerie de Pury & Luxembourg (eds.): Wakin 'Up Nights . 1st edition. Galerie de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich 2007 (exhibition catalog).
  31. ^ Gerhard Finckh , Toke Lykeberg: still on and non the wiser: an exhibition with selected urban artists. 1st edition. Publikat Verlag, Mainaschaff 2008, ISBN 978-3-939566-20-5 (exhibition catalog).
personal data
SURNAME Tasek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peters, Gerrit (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graffiti artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig