Saurier Hype 2010
2010 bekam ich von Urban Vision Concept (Danke, Wolf Urban!) den Auftrag für die Gigasaurier-Ausstellung – Die Riesen Argentiniens des Senckenberg Museums zwei Flächen am Großzelt der Expo auf dem Güterplatz, Mainzer Landstraße 124 in Frankfurt am Main zu sprühen. Ich setzte die 4 x 10 m Hauptfläche unter Mithilfe von Antonio Basilico/Pixeljuice mit Sauriermotiven um. Zwischenzeitlich gesellte sich noch der Sohn des damaligen Museumsdirektors Bernd Herkner dazu: Carl half tatkräftig im Background mit.
In 2010, I was commissioned by Urban Vision Concept to spray two areas of the Expo’s main tent at Güterplatz, Mainzer Landstraße 124 in Frankfurt am Main, for the Senckenberg Museum’s Gigasaur exhibition – The Giants of Argentina. I created the 4 x 10 m main area with dinosaur motifs with the help of Antonio Basilico/Pixeljuice.
In the meantime, the son of the then museum director, Bernd Herkner, joined the team: Carl actively helped behind the scenes.
I created the smaller area, 2 x 6 m, in the main hall of my then-studio at the so-called Phrix KG artist community in Okriftel.
I also sprayed a kinetic, moving Tyrannosaurus Rex model (build by Kai Wolf) that advertised this very unusual exhibition event at Frankfurt Central Station.
Finally, I held a graffiti art workshop on large banners on July 28, 2010, on-site with kids who enthusiastically enjoyed drawing sketches and sketches afterward.
Speaking of the Senckenberg Museum: I gave a graffiti workshop for school classes on containers there in 2013, and as part of Luminale 2014, Lichtfaktor crew, along with Marcel Panne and Alice Rose from Denmark and Cemnoz, created light art installations in the Dinosaur Hall. Thanks again to Satis & Fy for their support.
These days, I’m noticing more and more kids are wearing shirts with graffiti tags combined with dinosaurs and pop culture artwork (Stitch, etc.).
The DPA-German Press Agency reported on everything at the time. Now, as I understand, they’re using bots to search the internet for their photos, sometimes demanding exorbitant usage rights. A practice I understand on the one hand, but on the other hand, as the creator of the artwork, I don’t get anything from it; only the photographer does. Therefore, I’m not publishing the DPA photos here, but only the ones I took.


