Another favourite is Banksy. He uses prepared stencils for his graffiti work. It seems to be a perfect way to spread his ideas over the city. I like his motives very much – they are strong, provocative and original.

For the exhibition he threw a lot of red color on the floor and walls, that looked like blood. On it he drew white outlines of dead bodies – one decorated with a swastika (very provocative in Germany because of the Nazi-times) and one with a Nike swoosh.

“A Logo As A Name” says everything about Oliver Staks graffiti-art. He exchanged the writing of his name with the idea of using a logo instead.

The technically most inpressive work was done by Zedz. These silk-screen printings (top) on canvas have very intensive colors you would never reach in ordinary printing combined with the precision and clean perfectionism of computer graphics. His writing seems to be inspired by East-Asian writing and package-design.

This is a painting by Saek. Most of his paintings show futuristic and organic looking objects that look like a mixture between space-stations or -crafts and insects. His style looks like drawing with spray cans because he uses a lot of (thinner) lines on top of the basic objects.

The above pictures were done by a group called Viagrafik. They are all students and like Zedz, they work a lot with the combination of computer-graphics and silk-screen printing in the colors black, red and silver.

Urban Discipline 2002
Date: June 26th – July 2nd, 2002
Place: Astra Hallen
Address: 111 Bernhard-Nocht-Strase, 20359 Hamburg
contact@getting-up.org
https://www.urbandiscipline.de