Tasso (graffiti artist)

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TASSO

TASSO , bourgeois Jens Müller (born July 23, 1966 in Meerane ) is a German graffiti artist.

Life

He received his general education from 1973 to 1983. The film Wild Style sparked my first fascination with graffiti in the mid-1980s. In 1991 he created his first illegal graffiti picture under the pseudonym "GESHWAY". 1991–1999 he had various jobs, including a. as order picker and in construction. In 1994 he stepped into legality and received his first orders as an artist. In 1996 he got in touch with other sprayers and got involved in the scene. This was followed by an expansion of the techniques with can, oil, airbrush on various surfaces and publication of some works in the books of the Graffiti Art series at Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag , volumes 8, 9, 11 as well as an entry in the Large Graffiti Lexicon .

From 2000 he started his own business as a freelance artist with commissioned work on canvas and house facade. In 2001 the artist group "Ma 'Claim" was founded. In 2002 he had a main graffiti act at the “Splash Meeting of Styles” in Copenhagen and Malmö , and in the design of the stage background at “Planet Rock” in the Netherlands. From 2003 to 2005 he was a member of the jury at the World Graffiti Championship Write4Gold , which took place in Moscow, Athens and Warsaw. In 2006 the book Ma'Claim - Finest Photorealistic Graffiti was published . In 2007, former interns merged under the name "TASSO & GO ...!" In order to jointly design larger facades.

TASSO has left its artistic mark in a total of 30 countries. He has shown exhibitions in art halls around the world, including in Spain, Italy, England, India and South Africa. TASSO developed the idea for the IBUg (industrial fallow redesign ) project in Meerane and is considered the founder of the now internationally known art festival, which has been taking place annually since 2006. TASSO was not only immortalized on canvases, but typically also on the walls and house facades of his hometown Meerane and the surrounding area due to its homeland. Examples are at Hohenstein-Ernstthal train station and the new Meerane train station .

Style & technology

TASSO began its graffiti technique with typical lettering ( style writing ) and figures ( characters ). Over the years, he developed and perfected the so-called graffoto, photo-realistic work with the spray can , both on external facades and increasingly on canvases, very quickly .

From around 2011 TASSO has been dealing with the fine arts apart from street art and has developed its own contemporary position in which the spray can and the associated artistic self-image play a rather subordinate role. Using techniques such as drippings (similar to Jackson Pollock's drip technique ), the artist undermines the immediacy of the tried and tested photorealism. In addition to landscapes, there are narrative images, as well as pop art and surreal poetry. Objective motifs dissolve in abstraction and the influence of street art is always noticeable.

Picture gallery

  • TASSO facade graffiti
    - hair salon

  • TASSO facade graffiti
    - chocolates

  • TASSO facade graffiti
    - mechanical engineering

  • TASSO facade graffiti
    - train station

  • TASSO facade graffiti
    - transformer station

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions

  • “Graffiti and other graffiti”, Meerane City Hall / Saxony / Germany, September 6 - October 15, 1996.
  • "Graffiti Art Chemnitz", Bürgerhalle in Moritzhof Chemnitz, September 1 - September 22, 1999.
  • "1000 meters", participation in the longest graffiti wall in the world in Großenhain, 29./30. April 2000.
  • “The Gods of Rügen”, participation in the 700 m² mural, Kunsthof Gut Dargast, 16. – 22. July 2000.
  • "TASSO", 1st solo exhibition in the Hotel Meerane / Saxony / Germany, March 22, 2002.
  • "GraffArt & more", group exhibition in the gallery of the Art Association Gera, Thuringia, Germany, 9. – 24. November 2002.
  • "Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi" 2003.
  • "World Spray" Milano / Italy 6./7. March 2004.
  • “Never ending Story”, Goethe-Institut Athens / Greece
  • Ma`Claim group exhibition + Herakut, Kunsthaus Schmalkalden, September 21 - October 31, 2007.
  • "Concreto" group exhibition with Ma`Claim, Mexico City / Mexico October 24 - December 31, 2008.
  • "EXPO 2010" group exhibition Red Town, Shanghai / China May 19, 2010.
  • “Temporary Art” group exhibition 53 Art Gallery, Guangzhou / China 29 May 2010.
  • “Demolition forbidden!” Group exhibition of the IBUg artists, Gallery ART IN, Meerane January 12th - March 13th 2011.
  • “Outside in - Inside out” group exhibition at Galerie Vitrine, Lucerne / Switzerland 7 April - 1 May 2011.
  • “City of Gold” group exhibition, Johannesburg / South Africa 17. – 21. April 2012.
  • “A life after the can” solo exhibition, Gallery ART IN, Meerane, January 9th - March 10th 2013
  • " Leipzig Young Contemporary , ArtWalk Park 2013", group exhibition, Clara-Zetkin-Park, Leipzig, September 5 - October 3, 2013
  • “A life after the can” solo exhibition, ART IN gallery, Meerane, 2013
  • Affordable Art Fair Hamburg 2013, activeART Gallery, Hamburg, 2013
  • "In your Face-3" - group exhibition - Augsburg, 2013
  • Leipzig Young Contemporary, ArtWalk - Park 2014, Clara-Zetkin-Park, Leipzig, 2014
  • "Test the new TASSO!" - ALINA gallery, Chemnitz, 2015
  • UrbanArt Biennale 2015, Völklingen / Saarbrücken, 2015
  • “Street Art” group exhibition - Galerie Mauritiushof Bad Zurzach, Switzerland, 2015
  • “Skull - Icon. Myth. Kult "- Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen, 2015
  • Designers' Open 2015, activeART Gallery, Leipzig, 2015
  • Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam 2015, activeART Gallery, Amsterdam / Netherlands, 2015
  • Affordable Art Fair Hamburg 2015, activeART Gallery, Hamburg, 2015
  • "Faux pas" - Auerswalde Gallery, Lichtenau, 2015
  • “In the end something is always missing” activeART / KTR Galerie, Leipzig, 2016
  • UrbanArt Biennale 2017, Völklingen / Saarbrücken, 2017

Stays, jams, life performances

2002

  • Wall Street Meeting Wiesbaden - stage design for the “Battle of the Year” - stage design “Planet Rock” Eindhoven / Netherlands - “SPLASH!” Chemnitz / Saxony / Germany

2003

  • “Meeting of Styles” Lodz / Poland, Antwerp / Belgium, Charleroi / Belgium
  • "Write 4 Gold" Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Dresden, Munich / Germany
  • “SPLASH!” Chemnitz / Saxony / Germany

2004

  • “Write 4 Gold” Warsaw / Poland, Moscow / Russia, Kleipeda / Lithuania
  • "AerosolArt" Gran Canaria / Spain
  • “SPLASH!” Chemnitz / Saxony / Germany
  • "24h-Galerie" Regensburg / Germany
  • “Das Fest” Erfurt / Thuringia / Germany
  • “World Spray” Milan / Italy

2005

  • Sheffield / GB, Brno / Czech Republic,
  • “Write 4 Gold” Athens / Greece
  • "24h-Galerie" Regensburg / Bavaria / Germany

2006

  • Workshops at boesner Vienna, Graz / Austria
  • "24h-Galerie" Regensburg / Bavaria / Germany
  • "LoveBox Festival" London / England

2007

  • "Evolving Styles" London / England
  • Workshops at boesner Vienna, Graz / Austria

2008

  • “Writing my Name” Kiev / Ukraine, Eindhoven, Vlissingen / Netherlands, Mexico City / Mexico
  • Fashion week "Bread & Butter" Barcelona / Spain

2009

  • JazzFestival Vercelli / Italy
  • “Writing my Name” Klaipeda / Lithuania

2010

  • EXPO, Red Town, 53 Art Gallery - Shanghai and Guangzhou / China
  • "Gold of the Streets" Bremen / Germany

2011

  • Alexandria + Cairo / Egypt
  • Graffiti at the German Ambassy in Delhi + "Mood Indigo" in Mumbai / India

2012

  • 17.-21. April 2012 “City of Gold”, Johannesburg / South Africa
  • 3rd to 5th May 2012 Madrid / Spain

literature

  • Falk Lehmann, Steffen Petermann: Ma'Claim: Finest photorealistic graffiti. Publication, Mainaschaff 2006, ISBN 3-939566-01-2 .
  • Bernhard van Treeck : The great graffiti lexicon. Lexikon-Imprint-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-292-X .
  • TASSO: In the end something is always missing . Self-published, Meerane, 2016

Press / publications

Movies

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ arsek: Tasso - art pack. In: Graffart.eu. October 10, 2008, accessed June 20, 2012 .
  2. ↑ kiwee: Interview with Tasso. In: Graffart.eu. June 16, 2009. Retrieved June 20, 2012 .
  3. ↑ TASSO: www.tasso-fassaden.de - TASSO. In: TASSO / Jens Müller. 2011, accessed June 20, 2012 .
  4. ↑ here his 1st piece, TASSO, Meerane, August 1991
  5. ↑ TASSO. September 27, 2017. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .
  6. ↑ pca: The newly designed Hohenstein-Ernstthal train station. In: meinestadt.de. 2009, accessed June 20, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Signal box at Meerane station receives graffiti artwork. (No longer available online.) In: meerane.de. May 30, 2012, archived from the original on August 10, 2014 ; Retrieved June 20, 2012 . 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.meerane.de
  8. ^ Philipp Ludwig-Orlowski: TASSO. February 12, 2013. Retrieved November 19, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Tasso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Jens (real name); TASSO
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graffiti artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Meerane