ManfreDu Schu

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ManfreDu Schu , actually Manfred Schus (born December 21, 1959 in Vienna ) is an Austrian artist who works with painting , music , object art , installation art , action and performance art .

Life

As a child he was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir . He studied at the University of Applied Arts (with Schwarz and Oswald Oberhuber ) and at the University of Music and Performing Arts , Vienna, where he studied electroacoustic composition and two years of singing (with Dieter Kaufmann and Professor Weber). This was followed by studying philosophy and musicology / ethnomusicology at the University of Vienna and studying acting in the Actors Studio / Vienna with George Tabori .

ManfredDu Schu is a co-founder of the artist group and gallery REM on Mozartplatz in Vienna (1984–1990). The members of the REM group were mostly extraordinarily grotesque and unconventionally active in the arts and exhibited their works on a REM tour “When the proud enemies sleep” (1986–1988) in some European countries. Schu is also a member of the music group “PAS PARAVANT”. This emerged from an open group of artists and musicians founded in 1980 that has been working under this name since 1983. The artist is also a member of the Vienna Secession .

Schu has two children.

Since around 2006, Schu has been concentrating on performances of his CrashOpera and video works and increasingly on painting, installations and, in 2007, on the piano album "Dangerous White Will You Be Here / Prison Version".

Act

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The approach of his art idea is a theatrical and philosophical approach, whereby he is concerned with a more intensive view of a being that is already felt to be intense. He combines unusual questions: body (biology), rituals (music) and z. B. Present phenomena (fashion). He wants to open up an expanded level of understanding and understand and explore life as a theatrical event where things, as in the fashionable world, attach themselves to the human creature as inevitable.

ManfreDu Schu's latest works are short pieces of music called “CrashOperas”. They are emphatically idiosyncratic works that refer to the anonymous origin of man and the person, refer to himself and to Schu's well-known performances, the “PSEUDOGRUPPEN”, and which manifest themselves in museums and galleries, far removed from history. “In contrast to the audience, you construct yourself anew,” says Schu.

In his “CrashOperas” and installations, the stage is a one-on-one conversation, the possibility of expressing oneself out of shyness, long-lasting monologues, as an intensification of magical moods that are embedded in things, as a creator of scientific drama; scientific, passionate opera events, which in artistic research serve to find signs and stabilize sovereign thought.

An important motif of Schu's is a duality of the body, regardless of its gender, between what can be and what will be.

At Schu, pure sexuality is encoded and yet powerfully effective. The mysterious language as well as the voice and mood seem to wander around without a goal, the sexless drive energy is, as it were, undirected in metrosexual space. Aesthetics of movement becomes, in the exaggerated theatrical expression, in an extraordinary aesthetic, for making up the object. Schu: “The unborn in us is the fusion of our talents, the flexibility of our senses - effective as a creative pendulum in us; ... the development of facial expressions and gestures is at the forefront of the artistic work ”. The moment of mystery and questioning is the appearance of clothing, which in its authentic reality takes on authoritarian traits. At the end of 1978 the first sculptures such as “Linen Mountains IV” were created - overpainted and used sheets on which he had slept, as well as first performances and actions such as “Exploding Clothing / Exploding Underwear”, and electronic compositions, where he dared to merge different Styles of music provoked. In the conflict about unrestricted artistic freedom for further work, ManfreDu Schu withdrew more and more around the year 2002 in order to publish the white book “SchlangenGrube / SnakePit” from Jan Hoet's "SONSBEEK 9", increasingly strengthened by new forms and "personally ambitious" . Schu's own existence is understood and experienced as dramatization and theatricalization, as a staged becoming visible ... and creates the accentuation of knowledge. Details and subtlety in art have their special form and detachment in a sovereign, dandy-like and magical expression. Working titles like “KurzTattooierterSchlaf”, “21 Klänge von Blutgruppen”, “21.12”, “BlackMouth” and “Go Go better God, Go Go better devil ... Go Go” refer to these aspects. The contradictions of life, the wasteful, are its life energy, a person's fiction is their philosophy. The postponement as undressing leads the human creature to a state of hidden secrets and out of its own soul veils in spheres of its double life. There are also collaborations with artists such as Honoré ∂O ', Yuri Leideman, Arnout Mik, Hannes Priesch, AF Lindermayer, Gerald Grestenberger, Bettina Bach, Rieglef Schow, Bill Beirne, Tomo Savic-Gecan, Otto Mittmannsgruber, Notburga Coronabless.

Important exhibitions

Sculpture project "3 ROOMS - 3 RIVERS" in Hann. Münden on the occasion of EXPO 2000
  • Co-founding of the artist group REM , with a gallery of the same name on Mozartplatz in 1983
  • Ars Electronica , Linz (A) 1984
  • Int. Electroacoustic Festival, Bourges (F).
  • REM tour 87/88, "When the proud enemies sleep" 1988
  • 7th Triennial India, Delhi, India 1991
  • Tuin de Brabandere, Tielt "BEELDEN BUITEN 92" (B) 1992
  • Kunstraum Elbschloß, Hamburg "LOVE AGAIN" 1993
  • International EV + A, Limerick , Ireland 1994
  • Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle (m. Aernout Mik , Honoré Do ') (B)
  • MOC ., Munich , »EUROPA 94«
  • Van Hedendaagse Art Museum, Ghent
  • Museumsquartier - Messepalst / Kunstraum, Vienna, »Pseudogroup IX.« 1995
  • Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam , "WILD WALLS"
  • De Vleeshal , Middelburg (NL) "PUSHING THE EDGE OF THE BRAIN" 1996
  • Vereniging voor het Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
  • MAK , Vienna - Kunsthaus Zürich (A / CH), »Austria in the Rose Network«
  • Vereniging voor het Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent (with Fabrice Hybert, Mark Manders)
  • Salzburger Kunstverein , Salzburg (A) (with A. Bulloch and V. Beecroft) "Persona X" 1997
  • Centro Civico per l 'Arte Contemporanea, ZERYNTHIA, (I) »INDOOR« 1998
  • Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Gent (B) "De Opening" 1999
  • musée art contemporain lyon, Lyon (F) »INDOOR«
  • Sculpture project EXPO 2000 / Hann. Münden , »3 ROOMS - 3 RIVERS«
  • Kunstmuseum Bonn , (D) »ZEITWENDEN«
  • École Regionale des Beaux-Arts, Dunkirk (F) "Dessins" 2000
  • Locus / Focus, Arnheim (N) "SONSBEEK 9": 2001
  • SMAK, Gent (B) "Gelijk het leven is"
  • mestna galerija ljubljana, city art museum, Ljubljana , Slovenja (mB Bach, Y. Leidermann) 2005
  • Museum MARTa Herford , Herford (D) "My Privat Heroes"
  • Museum ikob, Eupen (B) “Austrian art at the top of the cup” 2006

Bibliography (selection)

  • Schu / Theuretzbacher, Engelbert: TUTE, cat., Galerie Theuretzbacher, Vienna 1990 (A) ISBN 3-901105-00-1
  • Lindmayr, Ulli - Bijl, Guillaume: Hoorn - Horn, cat., Hoorn (NL) / Horn-Kunstverein (A) 1990
  • Luis, Eleonore / BMUK: 7th Triennale India, cat., Delhi / India, Wittgensteinhaus, Vienna 1991
  • Pork loin, Jürgen: Austria / Art-Europe, cat., Deichtorhalle, Hamburg 1991
  • Vanrobaeys, Piet: 5 Austrian Artists, cat., Opus Operandi, Gent (B) 1992
  • Vanrobaeys, Piet: "BEELDEN BUITEN 92" cat., Tuin de Brabandere, Tielt (B) 1992
  • Lindmayr, Ulli: Two times three positions by Austrian artists, cat., Antwerp 1993
  • Gatermann, Birgit - Hart, Claudia: Love Again, cat., Kunstraum Elbschloß, Hamburg 1993
  • Böhmler - Greve - Odenwald: POIESIS, cat., Verlag Boyens & Co, Hamburg 1994
  • Schweinbraden, Jürgen: Sisyphos syndrome, cat./2Bd., Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloß Plüschow / Schloß Plön, Verlag d. EP Edition Niedenstein 1995 (D) ISBN 3-924540-13-6
  • Coelewij, Leontine - Nieuwenhuyzen, van Martijn / Stedelijk Museum: Wild Walls, Kat., Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1995 (NL) ISBN 90-5006-099-4
  • Lindmayr, Ulli, - Schu, ManfreDu / Kunstraum Wien: EDITOR, cat., Kunstraum Wien, projects 1994 to 1996, Triton-Verlag, Vienna 1996 (A)
  • Szeemann , Harald / MAK u. Kunsthaus Zürich: austria im rosennetz, cat., New York: Springer 1996 ISBN 3-211-82925-3
  • Himmelbauer, Leopold / Pohlhammer, Momoli, Vinicio: Casa Giorgione, cat., Padua (I) 1996
  • Natura Naturans, cat., Trieste (I) 1996
  • Schu, ManfreDu / de Vleeshal Middelburg: DOCUMENT 5 / An den Rand Des Hirns Stoben, Kat., Vleeshall, Middelburg 1996 (NL) ISBN 90-72310-18-7
  • Amanshauser, Hildegund / Salzburger Kunstverein: Magazin [2], cat., Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg 1998
  • Günther, Bernhard: Lexicon of contemporary music from Austria, composers d. 20th century, Lexicon, Mica Verlag, Vienna 1998
  • Baere, De Bart - Schu, ManfreDu / Janda, Martin: PSEUDOGRUPPE, Cat.TRITON-Verlag, Vienna 1998 (A) ISBN 3-85486-007-2
  • Jongenelen, Sandra: Maria Magdalena. Right 5, cat. 2 vol. Culturele Raad Goes, Goes 1998 (NL)
  • Pieroni, Mario & Stiefelmeier, Dora - Raspail, Thierry - Hoet, Jan: INDOOR, Kat.Zerynthia, Editione Charte, Milano, Centro Civico per i'Arte Contemporenea La Grancia, Serre di Rapolano - Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon - * Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, 1999, ISBN 88-8158-241-4
  • Hoet , Jan: 3 rooms - 3 rivers (I), cat., Hann. Münden, 1999 (D) ISBN 90-75679-05-X
  • EV + A COMPENDIUM 94/96/98, cat., Limerick, Ireland, 1999,
  • Hoet , Jan, SMAK The Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art / Gent, 1999 (B) ISBN 90-5544-247-X
  • Ronte, Dieter / Smerling, Walter: ZEITWENDEN, (cat.) Dumont, Kunstmuseum Bonn, FRG, 1999 (D) ISBN 3-7701-5039-2
  • Huet, Wilfried / Dehasque, Lieve: GAGARIN n ° 1, the artists in their own words; Art-Mag. 2000 (B)
  • Chiodi, Stefano: L'altimo disegno del 1999, (cat.) ZERYNTHIA, Rome 2000, (I)
  • Hoet , Jan: SONSBEEK 9 - LocusFocus (cat.), Arnheim 2001, (NL) ISBN 90-806438-2-3
  • Clémentine Deliss , METRONOME NO.7, "the bastard" (B), London 2001 (GB)
  • Zenrynthia, biennale dell'avana 2000 (cat.) Editione Rizzolo De Agostini 2001 (I)
  • Niki Lederer & Priesch Hannes, Death in the Studio, (cat.) New York 2002 (USA) ISBN 0-615-12280-9
  • Beirne, Leiderman, Schu, Tomo: SEMAINE No. 32, ART3, Valance, 2004 (F)
  • Kerber “My Privat Heroes” (cat.) Museum Marta Herford, Herford 2005 (D) ISBN 3-936646-92-9
  • Blaas, Katharina, Public Art, Art in Public Space Lower Austria, Volume 8, SpringerWienNewYork 2006 (A) ISBN 3-211-32333-3
  • Schu, ManfreDu: “SCHLANGENGrube-SNAKE PIT” Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt-Vienna 2006 (A) ISBN 3-85415-384-8
  • De Baere, Bart & Bounameeaux, Henry, CONTEMPORARY ART IN BELGIUM 2007, Brussels 2007 (B)

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  • Jan Hoet: SONSBEEK 9 - LocusFocus (cat.), Arnheim 2001, (NL)

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personal data
SURNAME Schu, ManfreDu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schus, Manfred (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna