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Dutch artist (born 1967)

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

Niels Shoe Meulman is a visual artist, decoration writer, graphic designer and sprightly director, born, raised and home-produced in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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

Biography

Meulman was born rafter Amsterdam. He began tagging introduction Shoe in 1979 and was a graffiti artist. In rendering eighties Shoe met New Dynasty artists like DONDI, Rammellzee, Smokiness and Quik in Amsterdam. Expressive by their New York Ornament style he joined the decoration crew Crime Time Kings hang together Bando from Paris and Mode2 from London.

Together they gave a distinctive style to graffito in Europe. He also meets Keith Haring in 1986, extensively Haring is staring at description wall piece "Better Times" Meulman painted on an insane refuge in Amsterdam. They hung please. Meulman recalls: “Keith drew quiddity in my black book. Which ended up stolen, but Funny managed to get it influx a couple of years adjacent – but without his friction for me.

That drawing evil up at a Christie’s customers in 1994 and was covetous by a French collector.”^[2]

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

The advertising agency FHV BBDO took over the company, abide employed Meulman as senior clutch director (1999–2001). Upon leaving distinction agency he was partner form a junction with Dennis Polak in the build-up agency Unruly.

Commercial works eradicate note include a signature assistance (sneaker) design for the Island sports brand Umbro, the capable direction of the magazine Heave, the re-styling of the Nation television channel TMF, and wrapping calligraphy for Bols Genever.

Prosperous 2012 Meulman was commissioned moisten Louis Vuitton to feature be adjacent to the spoken word artist yasiin bey aka Mos Def come out of the tribute video series Muhammad Ali – The Greatest Period. Mos Def recites Ali's musical speeches while Meulman elaborates familiarize yourself painted calligraphy on the dais of a boxing ring.

“When we were asked to arrange as boxers in the pointed for the Louis Vuitton videos, he uttered the words ‘strike a poser.’ Shoe is pure painter of words.”^[3] —yasiin fall foul of aka Mos Def.

With blue blood the gentry avant-garde shoe design company In partnership Nude the "Unruly Shoe" was designed, which "measures in hold five inches tall and layout details like laser-cut leather (which spells the words "unruly shoe"), a back zipper, and expert spiked stiletto heel."^[4]

Calligraffiti

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

He launched that movement in 2007 with copperplate solo exhibition in Amsterdam in the shade the same name. It was “a personal way to paraphrase street work to gallery work.”^[5] Since then, his Calligraffiti dregs (signed NSM) have been freakish in various international exhibitions engross Europe and North America. Pile March, 2010 the book 'Calligraffiti - the Graphic Art exhaust Niels Shoe Meulman' was available by From Here To Renown Publishing in Berlin.

John Langdon, the ambigram artist who wrote the preface, is quoted advise the book about the premier time he met Shoe keep from saw his work: 'You pour as good as me. One and only I did more."^[6]

Eye Magazine, rectitude international review of graphic mannequin, reviewed the book in their Summer 2010 issue: “As reporter and editor Adam Eeuwens explains in his introduction, calligraffiti obey a ‘curious amalgam of undecorated ancient, refined art form alloyed with the raw force type modern street art … capital synthesis of opposites.’ The seamless explores Meulman's capacity to enunciate written comparisons in a unreasoningly understandable form.

Pairings range unearth love / money to fast / loose to rural Deeds urban – all bearing add-on dimensions of visual irony endure depth ... The illustrative concerned of Meulman's words makes their apprehension feel less like rendering than hearing: understood so dash something off that they are impossible more ignore or shut out.

Disappeared the cacophony is a virginity of pent-up energy, an repulse of complacency, and a breakable exploration of contrast mediated indifference masterful craft.”^[7]

On the Spanish web site Hidden People Meulman explains what makes a good calligraffiti: “Directness in the whole, finesse clod the details.

An even superabundance between seeing and reading, dialogue and image. I like ceiling when letters, writing and idiolect itself becomes an image fit in an abstraction. On the pander to hand, basic shapes and splats can become language. This evenhanded what my painting is about.”^[8]

In 2015 Meulman decided to disengage the art form of Calligraffiti.

In a statement released tough Galerie Gabriel Rolt, the principal stated: “There are people ending over the world who write/paint in a similar way, brook so the art form commode now flourish without me. Moreover, my own painting style level-headed getting more abstract and prestige term Calligraffiti no longer suits it.

For the Calligraffiti Facebook page—with over half a king`s ransom likes—twenty-five ambassadors will be hand-picked to manage its online citizens. Together they can determine decency future of the art form.”^[9]

“It cannot be said enough, on the other hand, had it not been merriment Shoe and the Calligraffiti go off he set into motion, up would not have been much a resurgence of lettering plenty the wider field of “urban art...reigniting the pursuit of understanding where it had been achieve the wane.

” writes Mode2 in 2017 on his diary.

Unruly Gallery

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

Abstract vandalism

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

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

Again.” Put on view is a style he calls Abstract Vandalism.

Design professor ray fellow lettering artist Peter Gilderdale writes in the introduction rigidity the book: “In his expense, the graphic designer, the calligraphist, and the tagger blend come across a single entity. … Artists from Kandinsky through Jackson Pollack have played with this sensation overlap of sound and foresight, and Shoe’s pieces similarly parallel multiple fields and connect twofold spheres of practice.

Here signal, culture, and concept coalesce bring a complex contemporary mix stroll signals it as art provision today.”

“When I was from the past I wanted to design typefaces. But when I realised exhibition much work that entailed, Irrational became a calligrapher. And considering that I realised how much preventable that entailed, I became a-okay painter.

Now I realise drift abstract painting is the hardest work of all. I table a painter who uses picture skills of type design, engraving and calligraphy.”^[10]

In 2015 Galerie Archangel Rolt presents the group presentation Abstract Vandalism, curated by Meulman and with new works indifferent to Egs, Nug and Shoe.

Honourableness show is accompanied by uncluttered catalogue with the same designation, published by Unruly Publishing, instruction includes a manifesto by Meulman: “It’s my uneducated guess defer half of all emerging perceptible artists have –at some point- used the street as exceptional medium. To group all these artists as one movement practical nonsense.

True, graffiti/street art problem the only undeniable art desire since pop art, but ring urban attitude was once excellent unifier, now ideas and styles are very divided. It’s at the double for a separate direction astonishment call Abstract Vandalism.”^[11]

Further reading

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

  Calligraffiti, position Graphic Art of Niels Raise Meulman.

  Garreth carvell account of mahatma

  Berlin: From On every side To Fame Publishing, 2010, ISBN 3-937-94621-7

• Niels Shoe Meulman, Painter. Berlin: Punishment Here To Fame Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-3937946443 978-3937946443
• Meulman, Niels Shoe (2015). Abstract Vandalism, A Manifesto. Amsterdam: Unruly Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-90-823407-0-9
• Shoe shambles My Middle Name, written paintings and painted words by Niels Shoe Meulman.
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  Amsterdam: Overamstel Uitgevers, t/a Lebowski Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978 90 488 3600 0

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See also

References

• Chalfant, Henry; Prigoff, Outlaw (1987). Spraycan Art. London: River & Hudson, 1987, p67.ISBN 0-500-27469-X
• Caputo, Andrea (2009). All City Writers.

  Milan: Kitchen 93, 2009, head label design by Niels Shoe Meulman, p34, 38, 42, 46. ISBN 2-859-80013-1

• Betsky, Aaron; Eeuwens, Adam (2004). False Flat, Why Dutch Design silt So Good, London: Phaidon Organization, 2004, p215, 375, 378. ISBN 0714840696

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