MadC explained

MadC
Birth Name:Claudia Walde
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    Notable Works:The 700-Wall

    MadC (born Claudia Walde, 1980) is a graffiti writer and muralist. She was born in Bautzen, Germany, and is most known for her large-scale, outdoor artistic paintings.

    MadC started as a teenage graffiti writer and has since developed her creative endeavors into various related fields (including as graphic design, writing, and fine art). MadC painted her first graffiti piece in 1996, being 16 years old.[1] [2] She studied at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle and Central Saint Martins College in London. MadC carries a master's degree in graphic design.

    Philosophy

    It is MadC's philosophy that graffiti is the greatest way to express one's self due to the fact that the end product is all that matters and that no one has to know your true identity.[3]

    Major works

    Books (as Claudia Walde)

    700 Wall

    Her major international breakthrough came however in 2010 with the production of the work that has become known as the “700-Wall” – a 700 square-meter work along the train line between Berlin and Halle. This painting is most likely the largest graffiti mural created by a single person, taking four months to finish.[5]

    Art style

    MadC's transition from street art to gallery work went through a transformation, as she explains "taking the street energy to a canvas and how spray paint translated differently onto canvas".[3] She later moved on to 'Spectra' Paint, which had a transparent effect on her work with spray paint. She has also been known to use ink, watercolor, acrylic paint and acrylic markers in her work.[6]

    Her tagging style incorporates science fiction and fantasy elements, and is influenced by such artists as Vincent Van Gogh and the late graffiti artist Dare (real name Siegfried von Koeding, whom she collaborated with on his piece “Basel”).[7] Walde dedicated her piece “6313 – Here to Stay” to Dare.[8]

    Mad C also works with spray paints on canvas. At her first solo gallery in 2015, Night and Day, she showcased works such as “Nineteen Nineteen” and “Twenty One Zero Six”. These works had either a black or white base (symbolic of her night and day work required of her for tagging), and investigated “the relationship between overlapping colors, light, glass and calligraphic movement”.[1] For her canvases she is transferring her philosophy of connecting single parts to one piece – background, foreground, lines and shapes. To create those works, MadC uses spray paint, transparent spray paint, ink, watercolor, acrylic paint and acrylic markers. She is painting on canvas as well as carton from spray paint boxes.

    After "700 Wall", MadC became ready to start building another aesthetic universe. This is exactly what she did with a new body of work, which was part of the Reflections show at Kolly Gallery in 2014 and The Tahiti Mural in Tahiti during the same year. The seemingly reduced aesthetics of MadC’s canvases and street artwork show a devotion to the exploration of roots of an entire subculture. MadC confronts us with the notion of addressing the essence of graffiti and street art cultures, in a way that highlights the importance of a never-ending (re)interpretation of the two concepts. A “traditional” subject matter is re-contextualized into a completely new visual language.[5]

    Exhibitions

    Bibliography

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Artist of the Week – MadC. WideWalls. 2016-04-21.
    2. Web site: MadC - The Rebirth of Tradition. WideWalls. 2016-04-21.
    3. Web site: MadC Interview - Widewalls Podcast #13. Widewalls.ch. 8 May 2018.
    4. Web site: Thames & Hudson Publishers Essential illustrated art books Street Fonts Graffiti Alphabets from Around the World. Thamesandhudson.com. 2016-04-21.
    5. Web site: MadC - Kolly Gallery. 16 January 2014. Kollygallery.ch. 8 May 2018.
    6. Web site: MadC - TEAM REX. TEAM REX. en-us. 2016-04-21.
    7. Web site: MadC Interview - Widewalls Podcast #13. WideWalls. 2016-04-21.
    8. Web site: » 3 years without Dare. Madc.tv. 2016-04-21.
    9. Web site: MadC New Mural In London, UK - StreetArtNews. 16 August 2013. StreetArtNews.net. 8 May 2018.
    10. Web site: MADC LE MUR PARIS 2013 - GRAFFART. graffart.eu. 8 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201707/http://graffart.eu/blog/2013/07/madc-le-mur-paris-2013/. 3 March 2016. dead.
    11. Web site: MADC 500 Wall in Leipzig. 8 May 2018. Molotow.com. 8 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20140307060652/http://www.molotow.com/magazine/blog/blog/2013/10/04/madc-mural-in-leipzig/. 7 March 2014. dead.
    12. Web site: All of Jersey City's murals in one place. Adrienne Romero The Jersey Journal. 2019-07-15. en-US.
    13. http://1amsf.com/tag/claudia-walde/ 1AM Gallery
    14. Web site: Home - Kolly Gallery, street art gallery in Zurich. 22 December 2013. Kollygallery.ch. 8 May 2018.
    15. Web site: artistic studies for men and women of taste : by various representative artists. Pureevilclothing.com. 8 May 2018.
    16. Web site: MAD C (DE) -. 44309streetartgallery.info. 8 May 2018.
    17. Web site: L'art de la révolution : une exposition hommage à Mai 68. galerie-brugier-rigail.com. 8 May 2018.
    18. Web site: URBAN NATION. Urban-nation.com. 2017-03-13. Urban Nation Berlin. 27 January 2017. German.
    19. Web site: Art and Museum Centre Sinkka Sinkka.
    20. Web site: 44309 STREET//ART GALLERY. 44309streetartgallery.info. 2018-01-30. German.
    21. Web site: Rakkaudesta vapauteen - Museo- ja tiedekeskus Luuppi - Oulun kaupunki. 22 August 2019 .
    22. Web site: Expo: MadC at Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa. Eden Being. en-GB.
    23. Web site: Conquête Urbaine. fr.

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