In every sub movement of art, there has always some star performers, innovators or flag bearers. Artists that take their new discipline and turn it into something much, much, more. Christoph Hässler is one such person. Also known as STOHEAD, he was born 1973 in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. Being there from the beginning of the global graffiti surge, STOHEAD whom now works and resides in Berlin was part of the "Getting Up" group show in 1999. The "Getting Up", exhibition was one of the most important contemporary Graffiti-Fine Art group exhibitions to put graffiti onto the European gallery radar since Yaki Kornblit brought New York graffiti to the Amsterdam art scene in 1983. Later representing BC Gallery in 2015 at the SCOPE Basel, STOHEAD has come a long way taking his love of tags, script, calligraphy and the context of words, way beyond those humble times in 1999. The discipline of calligraffiti rising to another level. Whether it be exploring societies new buzz words, song lyrics or just randomly chosen words, he recreates, repeats and abstracts his content till it becomes abstract patterns that intern become the basis for new mark making and image building. A heavy user of the Montana SPIDER can, STO- HEAD has forged a path in contemporary art and taken calligraffiti with in the process using an innovating tool that back then no one else quite knew what to do with. But it wasn't just STOHEAD that "got it". The international graffiti world was watching and his global peers 112
that also focused on the new direction of raw script based graffiti, also morphed it into an artform of it's own. With fellow international innovators like Astro, Theosone, Oscar, Sicoer and Hoker, the unspoken graffiti rule of left to right classic graffiti in horizontal format is being actively re-written. With new virticle, circular and geometric postioning opening not just doors for calligraffiti artists, but the graffiti movement as a whole. Including the introduction of innovative new tools such as the Montana SPIDER, ULTRAWIDE and MARBLE EFFECT sprays, the future for the art of Calligraffiti is limitless. INSTAGRAM.COM/STOHEAD 113
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