Daniel Kalinski, also known as CHAZME or CHAZME 718, is a painter, graphic artist, architect, muralist, and street artist. Born in 1980 in Laufen, Switzerland, he currently lives and works in Warsaw. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. After completing his studies, he turned to street art and within a few years became one of the most recognizable figures on the Polish street art scene. His murals can be found on city walls around the world, including Cologne, Washington, Budapest, Glasgow, and Berlin, as well as in galleries in Paris, San Francisco, Düsseldorf, Los Angeles, and Rome. He began his career as a graffiti artist, but soon moved toward abstraction. His academic background has had a strong influence on his work—Chazme’s style is filled with surreal, complex geometry referencing contemporary urban planning, which he continuously critiques and deconstructs. His signature consists of dystopian, poetic compositions—labyrinths of shapes and colors in which geometric forms dominate over the human figure, which is almost entirely absent in his work. As an urbanist, Chazme places particular emphasis on the relationship between his works and their surroundings. Only in dialogue with the space in which they are presented do they form a complete whole, allowing for a full understanding of his complex aesthetic.
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