Daniel Tango

Since the late eighties, Daniel Tagno has been a graffiti writer in the traditional sense. Tagno has always been interested in the genres of graffiti writing: the tags, the throwups and the stylepieces. A practice, which in an almost scholarly way, addresses how citations, styles and new developments in the shapes of letters and words are dealt with. A calligraphy of the street, whereby the writer’s name functions as the basis or vehicle for presenting the most diverse styles. The word itself doesn’t require any meaning. The hosts let their letters dance as projection surfaces for coded contents on our streets.

From the art on the street through the work in the gallery, Daniel Tagno subjects his letters and words to a new level of meaning. He turns to writing’s original function: to freeze information. One of his approaches borrows from Chinese calligraphy, where the individual letter has a connection to the literal iconographic sense.

Selected exhibitions
»The Alternative Philosophy« (Group exhibition), The Leonard Street Gallery, London, 2008
»Berliner Strasse« (Group exhibition), Circleculture Gallery, Berlin, 2007/2008
»Backjumps« (Group exhibition), Bethanien Kunstraum, Berlin, 2007
»Adicolor-Studio Installation: 2 Lovers«, Berlin, 2006
»Berlin - Tokyo Issue Backjumps special«, Wonder Site Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2005
»Typomesse 2004« (Lecture in cooperation with the Jazzstylecorner), Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2004
»4 Your Brain to Suck!«, Bundesallee, Berlin, 2003
»Next 2000«, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2000
»Aufstand der Zeichen«, Toskanische Säulenhalle, Augsburg, Germany, 1996

Bibliography
Writing, Urban Calligraphy & Beyond Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2004
Writing the Memory of the City City, Dokument Förlag, Årsta, Sweden, 2007
, Backjumps. The Live Issue 3. Exhibition catalogue, From Here To Fame, Berlin, 2008