Ingo Giezendanner is a painter

Painting

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 and installation artist and member of the Kroesos Foundation

Kroesos Foundation

The Kroesos Foundation is an artistic collective set up by Swiss Artist, Mark Divo. Between January and March 2002 they occupied the building in the centre of Zurich where the original European Dada movement began, as a response to the horrors of the first World War, which came to be known as the...

. He lives and works in Zurich

Zürich

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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Since 1998, Ingo Giezendanner, alias GRRRR, has been documenting the urban
spaces in which he has travelled and lived. Apart from his native city of Zurich, his travels
have taken him to diverse cities from New York and New Orleans to Cairo, Nairobi,
Karachi and Colombo. Everywhere he travels, he captures his surroundings on location
with pen on paper. His drawings have been presented in numerous magazines, books
and animated films as well as in spacious installations and wallpaintings.

In conjunction with Mark Divo he painted the exterior façade on the squatted factory
grounds Wohlgroth in Zurich in 1993. Since then, GRRRR has realized many wall
paintings. During his stay in New York, he painted a mural on East 2nd Street. In 2004,
he worked on a large-scale mural on a site hording at the Kunsthaus Zurich depicting
the reconstruction in progress.

GRRRR has been presenting his work continuously in a series of publications. The first
is the self-published booklet “GRR1: video”, which appeared in 1998. The current book
"GRR30: urban recordings" is his thirtieth publication. It contains drawings from the
years 1998 to 2006 which provide insight into GRRRRs entire work for the first time.

The production of animated films is a more recent development in GRRRRs work.
In 2005, he produced several video clips for Swiss Television, among them the much
noticed clip "GRR26: gib mer", a collaboration with rapper Big Zis.

Previous publications:

GRR5: Seattle / San Francisco (1999)
Andreas Züst Verlag, 104 pages
ISBN 3-905328-05-4

GRR8: Zürich (2002)
Edition Patrick Frey, 72 pages
ISBN 3-905509-42-3 Out of print.

GRR20: Die Bau Zeitung (2004)
edition fink, 40 pages
ISBN 3-906086-69-0

GRR23: DESIGN (2004)
Nieves Books, 12 pages
www.nieves.ch Out of print.

GRR30: urban recordings (2006)
passenger books, 356 pages
ISBN 978-3-00-018496-3

External links

• GRRRR.net, the website produced by Ingo Giezendanner, showing most of his works
• Passenger Books, publisher of Giezendanners book "GRR30: urban recordings"
• Nieves, Publisher of Ingo Giezendanner's GRR23 and GRR41
• Ingo Giezendanner listed at artfacts.net
• Giezendanner at the Art Museum in Thun, Switzerland 2000
• http://www.schattenzeit.ch/dada03.htmlList of artists at the squattedCabaret Voltaire (Zurich)
  Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich)
  Cabaret Voltaire was the name of a nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland. It was founded by Hugo Ball, with his companion Emmy Hennings on February 5, 1916 as a cabaret for artistic and political purposes. Other founding members were Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, and Jean Arp...
  
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• Kroesus.org