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Ces53

Ces53 is the graffiti name of Tonny van Hoenderloo van Zandt, street art/graffiti artist from the Netherlands. Ces53 has been active since 1985 and is the creator of many international street art/graffiti paintings, predominantly in European cities but also worldwide in Mexico, United States and Burma.

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Ces53
Ces53 graffiti on a VIRM, 2009
Born
Tonny van Hoenderloo van Zandt
Alma materWillem de Kooning Academy
MovementGraffiti
Websiteces53.com
"COMEBACK OF THE CHAVIN MINDED FUNNY ONE" Painting on canvas,by Ces53 source ↗
Street art by Ces53 in Doel, Belgium a ghost-town attracting street artists. source ↗
Painting in the Global tradition by Ces53 source ↗

Ces53 is the graffiti name of Tonny van Hoenderloo van Zandt,1 street art/graffiti artist from the Netherlands.2 Ces53 has been active since 1985 and is the creator of many international street art/graffiti paintings, predominantly in European cities but also worldwide in Mexico, United States and Burma.

Work

Ces53 started as a traditional graffiti writer, one of the first to paint graffiti on trains in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.3 He became world-famous because of his high-quality graffiti paintings, also adopted more traditional art forms during the years, including painting and sculpturing. He became renowned for his innovative styles,4 quantity of work, and gained a lot of fame and followers within the graffiti community. Since 2005 Ces53 is also part of Lastplak, a world-famous Dutch street art collective.

References

References

  1. "Ces53 » History".
  2. Graffiti in Rotterdam, Stichting Kunstpublicaties Rotterdam, 2005, ISBN 978-90-5662-560-3
  3. Wholecars, Aragon, 1996, ISBN 3-89535-435-X
  4. Graffiti Art #10, Scwarzkopf & Scwarzkopf,1999,ISBN 3-89602-310-1
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