User:Baschz
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Baschz is a Dutch artist who´s name is best known for his work in the streets and with the omnidisciplinary intervention force Betamaxxx, founded by Crackrock and himself. Both solo and with Betamaxxx he exhibited, among other places, in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and homestead Eindhoven . You can find his street work in cities like New York, Bangkok and Johannesburg. Nowadays he combines solo projects with working in Tictoc, a Rotterdam collective of artists and deejays.
Baschz does loads: St. Retard, sketching, painting, internet, shirts, goodies, ladynipples. 2D, 3D. Indoors, outdoors, everywhere. His work is inspired by mass culture and its language; i.e. he produces autonomous handmade mass products, both embracing industry and commerce as well as giving it the finger at the same time.
Creator of Gumnipple, Stickerdeath, and the MFMarker.
Baschz is also the creator of the term Floginha; a portmanteau of the widely used abbreviation for Fotolog FLOG, with sex, age, geografics and affection; the female Portuguese diminutive suffix -INHA. therefore the word means:
1. a beautiful Brasilian girl with one or more Fotolog pages, and/or
2. art inspired by these very same girls
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[edit] External links
- Official website Features images and video of his works
- Schepperdeschep Appearance on Dutch television
- Gumnipple Gumnipple on Attack of the Show
[edit] Further Reading
- Kunst, Commercie en Lol interview on Cut-Up
- Stick ´em Up - Mike Dorrian / Liz Farrelly / David Recchia - Booth-Clibborn Editions - 2002 - ISBN 1-86154-247-X
- The Art of Rebellion - Christian Hundertmark - Gingko Press - 2003 - ISBN 1-58423-209-9
- Street Logos - Tristan Manco - Thames & Hudson - 2004 - ISBN 0-500-28469-5
