Photorealistic street artist: el kitsch TASSO
Ninja August 18th, 2007
His site also has a few step-by-step process photos (from sketch on a wall to layers of spray-paint)
Bio:
It all started with some scrawlings under his grandmother’s kitchen table. Every year, TASSO (aka Ta55o) would sign + date the underside of his grandmother’s table. And each year, he would watch as the style + flow changed (kind of like parent marking off ticks on the door to see how far a child’s grown).
TASSO’s fascination with graffiti was sparked by the Sunday afternoon program, Style Wars. Unfortunately with so many folks spray-painting political messages on the Berlin wall, spray-paint cans were eventually banned in 1986. TASSO painted his first wall in 1991 when he was 25.
In 1998, TASSO founded DSA with ANIZ from Dessau + later left in November to join the MaClaim Crew with AKUT, CASE and RUSK.
Links:
+ TASSO’s website + portfolio (it’s in German)
+ his myspace (also in German)
+ check out his viddy (haha, um, it’s in German too, but it’s pretty cool to watch him in action)
