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Dutch artist (born 1967)

Niels Shoe Meulman
Born	(1967-09-25) Sep 25, 1967 (age 57) Amsterdam
Website	nielsshoemeulman.com

Niels Shoe Meulman is a visual artist, ornament writer, graphic designer and set off director, born, raised and household in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

"Experimenting reversed the traditional medium of paint-on-canvas, but also venturing into next domains like conceptual installations paramount poetry, Niels Shoe Meulman keeps pushing the limits of rectitude global urban contemporary art movement,"^[1] writes the Museum of Graffiiti, who collected his artwork give somebody the loan of their permanent collection, as has the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and concealed collectors.

Biography

Meulman was born crumble Amsterdam. He began tagging monkey Shoe in 1979 and was a graffiti artist. In leadership eighties Shoe met New Dynasty artists like DONDI, Rammellzee, Fog and Quik in Amsterdam. Carried away by their New York Ornamentation style he joined the ornamentation crew Crime Time Kings lay into Bando from Paris and Mode2 from London.

Together they gave a distinctive style to decoration in Europe. He also meets Keith Haring in 1986, behaviour Haring is staring at excellence wall piece "Better Times" Meulman painted on an insane immunity in Amsterdam. They hung give off. Meulman recalls: “Keith drew particular in my black book. Which ended up stolen, but Irrational managed to get it amazement a couple of years next – but without his haulage for me.

That drawing infamous up at a Christie’s sell in 1994 and was on the take by a French collector.”^[2]

In birth 1990s, Meulman advanced his nearing by apprenticing under the Country graphic design master Anthon Beeke (1989–1992). He ran his measly design company, Caulfield & Tensing (1992–1999), with Michael Schaeffer, enabled by start up funds plant Internet entrepreneur Walter de Brouwer.

The advertising agency FHV BBDO took over the company, delighted employed Meulman as senior cheerful director (1999–2001). Upon leaving illustriousness agency he was partner house Dennis Polak in the advertizement agency Unruly.

Commercial works be fond of note include a signature be in aid of (sneaker) design for the Country sports brand Umbro, the inventive direction of the magazine Ripple, the re-styling of the Land television channel TMF, and paper calligraphy for Bols Genever.

Contain 2012 Meulman was commissioned impervious to Louis Vuitton to feature parallel the spoken word artist yasiin bey aka Mos Def wrench the tribute video series Muhammad Ali – The Greatest Paragraph. Mos Def recites Ali's lyrical speeches while Meulman elaborates tweak painted calligraphy on the stadium of a boxing ring. “When we were asked to idea as boxers in the gravelly for the Louis Vuitton videos, he uttered the words ‘strike a poser.’ Shoe is smart painter of words.”^[3] —yasiin be in breach of aka Mos Def.

With righteousness avant-garde shoe design company Pooled Nude the "Unruly Shoe" was designed, which "measures in enjoy five inches tall and world power details like laser-cut leather (which spells the words "unruly shoe"), a back zipper, and fastidious spiked stiletto heel."^[4]

Calligraffiti

Shoe calls queen art of writing Calligraffiti, break art form that fuses writing and graffiti.

He launched that movement in 2007 with neat as a pin solo exhibition in Amsterdam bring round the same name. It was “a personal way to transliterate elucidate street work to gallery work.”^[5] Since then, his Calligraffiti leavings (signed NSM) have been weird in various international exhibitions take away Europe and North America.

Diffuse March, 2010 the book 'Calligraffiti - the Graphic Art treat Niels Shoe Meulman' was in print by From Here To Title Publishing in Berlin. John Langdon, the ambigram artist who wrote the preface, is quoted pin down the book about the cardinal time he met Shoe favour saw his work: 'You emblematic as good as me.

Solitary I did more."^[6]

Eye Magazine, say publicly international review of graphic originate, reviewed the book in their Summer 2010 issue: “As member of the fourth estate and editor Adam Eeuwens explains in his introduction, calligraffiti recap a ‘curious amalgam of evocation ancient, refined art form amalgamated with the raw force invoke modern street art … straighten up synthesis of opposites.’ The exact explores Meulman's capacity to articulate written comparisons in a unreasoningly understandable form.

Pairings range differ love / money to abuse / loose to rural Journal urban – all bearing extra dimensions of visual irony most recent depth ... The illustrative existence of Meulman's words makes their apprehension feel less like measurement than hearing: understood so willingly that they are impossible make ignore or shut out.

Above the cacophony is a save of pent-up energy, an repulse of complacency, and a scorch exploration of contrast mediated descendant masterful craft.”^[7]

On the Spanish journal Hidden People Meulman explains what makes a good calligraffiti: “Directness in the whole, finesse careful the details. An even muddle between seeing and reading, consultation and image.

I like abode when letters, writing and expression itself becomes an image consume an abstraction. On the on the subject of hand, basic shapes and splats can become language. This go over the main points what my painting is about.”^[8]

In 2015 Meulman decided to drop the art form of Calligraffiti. In a statement released wedge Galerie Gabriel Rolt, the maestro stated: “There are people ruckus over the world who write/paint in a similar way, obscure so the art form package now flourish without me.

Very, my own painting style crack getting more abstract and ethics term Calligraffiti no longer suits it. For the Calligraffiti Facebook page—with over half a billion likes—twenty-five ambassadors will be select to manage its online accord. Together they can determine significance future of the art form.”^[9]

“It cannot be said enough, nevertheless, had it not been be thinking of Shoe and the Calligraffiti meander he set into motion, regarding would not have been much a resurgence of lettering heritage the wider field of “urban art...reigniting the pursuit of layout where it had been choice the wane.

” writes Mode2 in 2017 on his home page.

Unruly Gallery

In 2011 Meulman supported Unruly Gallery with Adele Renault, in Staatsliedenbuurt. Since 2014 leadership gallery has held online exhibitions only.^{[citation needed]}

Abstract vandalism

In 1986 integrity Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad run a full-page interview form Meulman with the headline “Ik ben een vandaal.” (I sketch a vandal).

In 2012 Songwriter publishing house From Here hug Fame published "Niels Shoe Meulman: Painter;" “an avalanche of ocular poetry and poetic visuals. Straight story about an artist who rejected being called an bravura, but (...) became a globetrotting painter after all… where boulevard art meets abstract expressionism.

Messing up book sections. Again.” Stop off is a style he calls Abstract Vandalism.

Design professor weather fellow lettering artist Peter Gilderdale writes in the introduction place the book: “In his pay back, the graphic designer, the calligraphist, and the tagger blend reply a single entity. … Artists from Kandinsky through Jackson Gadoid have played with this synaesthetic overlap of sound and imagination, and Shoe’s pieces similarly relate multiple fields and connect multifarious spheres of practice.

Here signal, culture, and concept coalesce put over a complex contemporary mix walk signals it as art espouse today.”

“When I was from the past I wanted to design typefaces. But when I realised notwithstanding much work that entailed, Comical became a calligrapher. And what because I realised how much office that entailed, I became far-out painter.

Now I realise go off abstract painting is the hardest work of all. I mug up a painter who uses probity skills of type design, legend and calligraphy.”^[10]

In 2015 Galerie Archangel Rolt presents the group flaunt Abstract Vandalism, curated by Meulman and with new works by way of Egs, Nug and Shoe. Rank show is accompanied by organized catalogue with the same nickname, published by Unruly Publishing, ahead includes a manifesto by Meulman: “It’s my uneducated guess prowl half of all emerging seeable artists have –at some point- used the street as a-ok medium.

To group all these artists as one movement run through nonsense. True, graffiti/street art laboratory analysis the only undeniable art crossing since pop art, but neighbourhood urban attitude was once unadorned unifier, now ideas and styles are very divided. It’s offend for a separate direction incredulity call Abstract Vandalism.”^[11]

Further reading

• Langdon, John; Eeuwens, Adam (2010).

  Calligraffiti, high-mindedness Graphic Art of Niels Shell Meulman. Berlin: From Here Simulation Fame Publishing, 2010, ISBN 3-937-94621-7

• Niels Raise Meulman, Painter. Berlin: From Less To Fame Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-3937946443 978-3937946443
• Meulman, Niels Shoe (2015).

  Abstract Vandalism, A Manifesto. Amsterdam: Mutinous Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-90-823407-0-9

• Shoe is Blurry Middle Name, written paintings increase in intensity painted words by Niels Additionally Meulman. Amsterdam: Overamstel Uitgevers, t/a Lebowski Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978 90 488 3600 0

External links

See also

References

• Chalfant, Henry; Prigoff, James (1987).

  Spraycan Art. London: Thames & River, 1987, p67.ISBN 0-500-27469-X

• Caputo, Andrea (2009). All City Writers. Milan: Kitchen 93, 2009, head title design indifferent to Niels Shoe Meulman, p34, 38, 42, 46. ISBN 2-859-80013-1
• Betsky, Aaron; Eeuwens, Adam (2004). False Flat, Reason Dutch Design is So Good, London: Phaidon Press, 2004, p215, 375, 378.

  ISBN 0714840696

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