Recently I bought a book on Daniel Weissbach amongst some other art books. Weissbach was always inventive and had a unique artistic practice that at times brought a focus on the everyday. The way I see his practice is as a constant subversion of the everyday which at the heart of it is an aerosol writer’s mindset.

He recreated ‘places’ (Stellen) in such a way as to finally have a viewer focus on what they would pay no attention to on a daily basis. Sometimes the world has to be recreated within a frame in a white cube setting to finally be grasped or even seen at all. At other times Weissbach subverted the everyday world in a psychedelic moment frozen in time.

These psychedelic grids challenged ideas of perception and what an everyday space really is. It is in Weissbach’s eyes simply an illusion, a facade of order and at its core it is a moving, changeable and constantly subverted space. People challenge the authority of the illusion and for a moment find themselves co-opting it as a way of dealing with the temporality of life and social order.

I find Weissbach’s work successfully draws the viewer in by primarily asking the question, do you see the illusion of places? In a way the more exacting he is, the more clinical and cut off the world around us seems. To counter that he also plays with the space and subverts it. This is what an aerosol artist does at best, they ask what the world you live in can be to you and your community.