Tape art: when streaks become pictures

The noise continues to rush through the air. Again and again the same monotonous sound, only the distances vary and maybe the duration. Stripes around stripes are apparently planed by the wall.

The role of the artist's fingers is casually wandering when he examines the development of his work after a few steps. A short break and again the noise rolling tapes before the next strip ends up unerringly on the masonry.

"Glue the art" , Tape Art, the adhesive tape from Berlin sometimes described conceptually. A street art genre in which the color does not come from can, brush or cartridge, but from the role. The works of art are glued into the cityscape.

Memorial color strips in the form of adhesive tape strips, which line their way to house walls or walkway plates. Weather and arbitrariness determine the lifespan of this mostly wordless dialogue in public space.

Although adhesive tape art is no longer a novelty, but a relatively young phenomenon of urban art landscape .

What distinguishes this form of Urban Art?

Tape Art is characterized above all by the material used - the package tape - and can thus grow into a real spectacle. Usually a classic, wide pack adhesive tape in brown color is used, which we all know from our household.

Alternatively, so -called Scotch adhesive tape used in a thousand different colors. Or the artists fall back on transparent adhesive strips, which we all also use for our gift packaging. In some works and performances, the tape even comes without stickiness and then consists of PVC ligaments that are wrapped and tensioned.

Precisely because tape art is so much the material from which it consists, it surprises the viewer with the apparently infinite possibilities that this fabric that occurs so banally can produce.

Berlin as a tape art stronghold

, the “art of gluing” left its mark in this country. And as so often, it is the streets of Berlin that offer the perfect breeding ground for creativity, inspiration and innovation.

In the meantime, the city has jumped up to the tape art stronghold-with a number of renowned scene artists who made the streets of Berlin their open-air studio.

Towering horses of adhesive art: Buff Diss & Slava OstaPchenko

As a pioneer of adhesive, the Australian Buff Diss made a name for itself and was also the inspiration for the collective that brought the art form in this country on the cultural radar: the "adhesive gang" .

Adobe Creative Cloud Event 2015 in Berlin: Klebe gang - tape art in time -lapse (video)

Three creative minds whose homeland is Berlin and which have established and forced the adhesive culture "Cut for cut". Bruno , Bodo and Kolja also created an incomparable material found for artists and creatives "Klebeland"

A number of aspiring talents are preparing to fix tape art with adhesive tape and sneaking Germans more and more in general cultural awareness. So also Slava Ostapchenko .

Born in Ukrainians, Berlin has discovered Berlin for himself and his work. Lively "material spectacle" as the core of his portfolio and a shining concise, which literally attaches to his pictures and installations: The Art of Taping .

Joachim Rodriguez y Romero

Owner and Managing Director of Kunstplaza. Journalist, editor, and passionate blogger in the field of art, design, and creativity since 2011. Successful completion of a degree in web design as part of a university study (2008). Further development of creativity techniques through courses in free drawing, expressive painting, and theatre/acting. Profound knowledge of the art market through years of journalistic research and numerous collaborations with actors/institutions from art and culture.

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