Who is DAIM?
Within the community of graffiti this question might almost be looked upon as an insult or at least as a blunt prove of ignorance. All those who`s understanding and awareness of graffiti as a form of art within the public space of perception should be reminded that within a list of the worldwide most renown graffiti artists, DAIM`s name would be amongst equals.
DAIM, born in Lüneburg was soon drawn to the nearby metropolis of Hamburg by its tentacles deeply enrooted within the subculture scene. In 1989 he started his career as a free artist and a spray can virtuoso. Only one year later he was commissioned his first remittance work and in 1992 the change of aliases so important for a graffiti artist took place. The latter of course playing a major role within modern street calligraphy.
International art- as well as lecturing work soon led him amongst the midst of transnational artist groups such as GBF, SUK, FBI and FX. Within those brood cells of new styles and techniques DAIM developed a diversity of skills which enabled him to go beyond his roots. Concrete walls were more and more replaced by canvases while spray cans from a hip hop shop were now often amended by mouse clicks in Photoshop. Firstly, two dimensional pictures evolved into bafflingly three dimensional graphics with seemingly unlimited depths and perspective only to finally become sculptures leaving the confinement of flat surfaces entirely.
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