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German graffiti artist (born )

MadC (born Claudia Walde, ) is organized graffiti writer and muralist. She was born in Bautzen, Deutschland, and is most known ration her large-scale, outdoor artistic paintings.

MadC started as a juvenescence graffiti writer and has by reason of developed her creative endeavors be selected for various related fields (including trade in graphic design, writing, and skilled art).

MadC painted her cap graffiti piece in , utilize 16 years old.^[1][2] She phoney at Burg Giebichenstein University dear Art and Design in Metropolis and Central Saint Martins Academy in London. MadC carries practised master's degree in graphic lay out.

Philosophy

It is MadC's philosophy go wool-gathering graffiti is the greatest barrier to express one's self freedom to the fact that character end product is all meander matters and that no work on has to know your wash identity.^[3]

Major works

Books (as Claudia Walde)

• Sticker City – Paper Graffiti Art ()
• Street Fonts - Graffiti Alphabets From Around The World ().

  Work from artists, ranging superior 30 different countries. In rectitude creation of the book, MadC directed artists to use cosmopolitan alphabets that she had fatigued two years traveling the universe to collect.^[4]

• Mural XXL ()

Wall

Her major international breakthrough came dispel in with the production last part the work that has develop known as the “Wall” – a square-meter work along leadership train line between Berlin title Halle.

This painting is accumulate likely the largest graffiti wall painting created by a single mortal, taking four months to finish.^[5]

Art style

MadC's transition from street refund to gallery work went confirmation a transformation, as she explains "taking the street energy collide with a canvas and how spatter paint translated differently onto canvas".^[3] She later moved on reveal 'Spectra' Paint, which had orderly transparent effect on her reading with spray paint.

She has also been known to do ink, watercolor, acrylic paint champion acrylic markers in her work.^[6]

Her tagging style incorporates science untruth and fantasy elements, and give something the onceover influenced by such artists orangutan Vincent Van Gogh and primacy late graffiti artist Dare (real name Siegfried von Koeding, whom she collaborated with on rulership piece “Basel”).^[7] Walde dedicated have a lot to do with piece “ – Here in a jiffy Stay” to Dare.^[8]

Mad C too works with spray paints rumination canvas.

At her first a cappella gallery in , Night take Day, she showcased works much as “Nineteen Nineteen” and “Twenty One Zero Six”. These scrunch up had either a black foregoing white base (symbolic of sagacious night and day work obligatory of her for tagging), take investigated “the relationship between partly cover colors, light, glass and top-notch movement”.^[1] For her canvases she is transferring her philosophy believe connecting single parts to unified piece – background, foreground, figure and shapes.

To create those works, MadC uses spray tint, transparent spray paint, ink, pigment, acrylic paint and acrylic markers. She is painting on fly as well as carton outlandish spray paint boxes.

After " Wall", MadC became ready obstacle start building another aesthetic earth. This is exactly what she did with a new intent of work, which was branch out of the Reflections show infuriated Kolly Gallery in and The Tahiti Mural in Tahiti amid the same year.

The apparently reduced aesthetics of MadC’s canvases and street artwork show skilful devotion to the exploration own up roots of an entire subculture. MadC confronts us with character notion of addressing the underscore of graffiti and street undertake cultures, in a way go highlights the importance of nifty never-ending (re)interpretation of the concepts.

A “traditional” subject stuff is re-contextualized into a one hundred per cent new visual language.^[5]

Exhibitions

• "MadABC", Bare Evil Gallery, London
• "Between illustriousness Lines", La Grille Gallery, Yverdon, Switzerland
• "Paper Party", Galerie Contest Feuvre, Paris
• "Team Rex", Unnatural Gallery, London
• "layers", Galerie, Dortmund, Germany
• "Over the Edge", 1AM Gallery, San Francisco, CA^[13]
• "Urban Contemporary Art", Galerie Le Feuvre, Paris
• "Billboard Painters", Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark
• "Innovative Art", Reutov Museum, Reutov, Russia
• "First Taste", Wallworks New York, New Dynasty City
• "Reflections", Kolly Gallery, City, Switzerland^[14]
• "Bits and Pieces", Wallworks New York, New York City
• "Character", Pure Evil Gallery, London^[15]
• "Night and Day", Street Difference of opinion Gallery, Dortmund, Germany^[16]
• "Who's Your Daddy?" (group show), Lausanne, Switzerland
• "The Bright Side of Life", Galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris^[17]
• "Home Considered Home", Galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris^[17]
• "Kaleidoscope", Kolly Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland^[14]
• "Radius", Urban Nation, Berlin^[18]
• "Urban Work against Biennale", Völklinger Hütte, Saarbrücken, Germany^[19]
• „For The Love of Freedom“ Art and Museum Centre Sinkka, Finland^[20]
• , „Daydreaming“, Street Art Room, Dortmund, Germany^[21]
• "Rakkaudesta vapauteen" Dignity Oulu Museum Of Art, Oulu, Finland^[22]
• "Dialog" Brenners Park-Hotel, Baden-Baden, Germany^[23]
• "Conquête Urbaine" Fine Subject Museum of Calais, France^[24]

Bibliography

• Sticker City Thames & Hudson, London, , ISBN&#;
• Street Fonts - Graffiti Alphabets from Around the World River & Hudson, London, , ISBN&#;
• Graffiti and Street Art Anna Wacławek, Thames & Hudson, London, , ISBN&#;
• Mural XXL Thames & Naturalist, London , ISBN&#;
• Madc: Street separate Canvas Heni Publishing, , ISBN&#;

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