Marc Bauer

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Marc Bauer in his Berlin studio, October 2012

Marc Bauer (born May 28, 1975 in Geneva ) is a Swiss draftsman and artist .

Life

Marc Bauer studied from 1995 to 1999 at the École Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva. From 2002 to 2004 he attended the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam . He was then artist in residence at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma (2005 to 2006) and at the Ai Weiwei Studio in Beijing (awarded by the Kunstmuseum Bern , 2006). In 2001, 2005 and 2006 he took part in the Swiss Federal Art Competition in Basel .

Bauer is a permanent lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He lives and works in Berlin and Zurich .

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By drawing Marc Bauer tries to open up reality in its subjective, political and symbolic complexity. For him, drawing opens up the possibility of showing the present as it is shaped by history, memory and changing power relations.

subjects

Marc Bauer's wall drawing, part of the work Sphinx, 1931, 1935-1946 , 2014. Charcoal on wall. Was shown in the group exhibition Docking Station at the Aargauer Kunsthaus from 23 August to 16 November 2014

History and memory are central themes in Bauer's work, which he pursues through the old, tactile, time-consuming artistic technique of drawing in dialogue with the modern, mechanical, “instant” media of photography and film . Films or photographs are always used as a template for the drawings, sometimes also those that he took with a cell phone. However, he does not draw these templates, but from memory: In the time that goes by while drawing, these photos or film scenes increasingly become images from memory. Drawing gives him the opportunity to witness a historical event - Marc Bauer often chooses controversial events for this, such as the opening of the exhibition “ Degenerate Art ” in Munich in 1937 . This gives the viewer of the picture the opportunity to see this event all over again, suddenly with the subjective gaze of someone else, often also in the eyes of one of the fictional characters built by Bauer, which enable the interweaving of collective "history" and To depict individual fates in intertwined narrative threads.

“Marc Bauer's drawings are archaeological in nature . They dig into the past in order to lift individual fragments of past scenes and the remains of old tragedies to the surface of time in order to relate them to the cracks of the present. "

- Jean-Charles Vergne

The drawings never make a secret of their “mediation”, their “mediality”. The aura of disengagement that surrounds the depicted scenes is accompanied by an alienation effect and thus a greater detachment on the part of the viewer from what is happening, which becomes accessible for analysis. Bauer's aim is to create space for the question of how certain images find their way into the collective consciousness. Bauer also thinks that it is a mistake to think that the photographic image is in some way objective due to its technical producibility and therefore also sharper or less abstract than the hand-drawn graphics.

Style and technology

Most of the time Marc Bauer chooses images that are well known and vaguely present in the unconscious (such as the portraits of Pope Benedict or Heidegger ). In many of them there is a feeling of underlying threatening patriarchal rule. When drawing the figures, Bauer erased these pictures - from his head, but also quite literally: with an eraser . The frequent use of the eraser gives the drawings their characteristic blurring and blurring, which mimetically simulates the process of remembering and forgetting - at the beginning there is a rough outline, which is then worked out in ever greater detail, until gradually the scene fully appears occurs. The eraser not only erases, but also documents and paradoxically preserves the creation process of a drawing, leaving behind smeared lines and blurred contours. Marc Bauer's pictures are always created in series; for his exhibitions he chooses the form of site-specific installations. These installations consist, for example, of small-format drawings and larger-format graphic works or digital prints of enlargements, animated films, real objects (which often recur as motifs in one of the pictures) as well as large paintings that are applied directly to the wall, showing the relationship of the viewer to the room change and develop an illusionistic effect.

Awards

2020: GASAG Art Prize

2020: Prix ​​Meret Oppenheim , Fine Arts Department

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2000: Art-Magazin, Zurich. Swiss Room
  • 2001: attitudes, Geneva. Archeology
  • 2004: SMBA (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam). Tautology
  • 2005: Art Museum Solothurn. Overthrowing the King in his Own Mind . With Shahryar Nashat and Alexia Walther
  • 2005: Nicolas Krupp, contemporary art gallery, Basel. A little story of infamy
  • 2006: oT room for contemporary art, Lucerne. History of masculinity
  • 2007: attitudes, Geneva. History of Masculinity, Epilogue
  • 2007: Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich. Against my brain
  • 2008: Art statements, Art 39 Basel. Panorama Todtnauberg
  • 2009: Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand. LAQUE
  • 2010: MAMCO, Geneva. Premier conte sur le pouvoir
  • 2011: Art Museum St. Gallen . Killing reflexes
  • 2011: Remap 3, Athens. History of Masculinity III: The Great Expectation of MH
  • 2012: Kunsthaus Baselland , Basel. Nature as Territory
  • 2012: Musée de Pully, with Sara Masüger, Lausanne. Le ravissement mais l'aube, déjà
  • 2012: La Station, Nice. Pleins Pouvoirs, September
  • 2013: Center Culturel Suisse, Paris. Le Collectionneur
  • 2013: Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich. The astronaut
  • 2014: FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand. Cinerama
  • 2014: Le Quartier, Quimper. In the past, only
  • 2014: Museum Folkwang , Essen. The collector
  • 2014: FRAC Alsace, Sélestat. Cinerama
  • 2015: Deweer Gallery, Otegem. Static / unfolding time
  • 2015: FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille. Cinerama
  • 2015: Freymond-Guth Fine Arts Ltd., Zurich. EMPEROR ME
  • 2016: Musée Jenisch, Vevey. Focus sur les collections Marc Bauer, Le Bal
  • 2017: Gallery Peter Kilchmann, Zurich. Our fate today and tomorrow
  • 2019: Drawing Room, London. Mal Ȇtre / performance
  • 2020: De La Warr Pavilion , Bexhill on Sea. Mal Ȇtre / performance
  • 2020: Istituto Svizzero Milan Mi piace Commenta Condividi, A Rhetorical Figure
  • 2020: Berlinische Galerie , Berlin. The Blow-Up Regime
  • 2021: FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand. L'Etat de la Mer, Lame de Fond, 2011-2020

Group exhibitions

  • 2003: Galerie Zürcher, Paris, Archéologies
  • 2003: Cohan Leslie & Brown Gallery, New York. Little triggers
  • 2003: Kunsthalle, Zurich. 20 years of the Binz Foundation
  • 2004: ACCA (Australian Center for Contemporary Art), Melbourne. A Molecular History of Everything *
  • 2005: Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow
  • 2007: FRAC Alsace, Selestat. Drôles de je
  • 2007: Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin. Against the grain
  • 2008: Kunsthaus Zurich . Shifting identities
  • 2008: XV. Rohkunstbau , Potsdam. THREE COLORS - RED
  • 2009: Center Culturel Suisse, Paris. Documents
  • 2010: SAL, Basel. Where cuckoos nest in autumn , with Armen Eloyan and Sara Masüger
  • 2011: Museum Ostwall , Dortmund. Picture by picture
  • 2011: Art Museum St. Gallen. Back to the future
  • 2011: Center Pompidou , Paris. Acquisitions récentes, cabinet d'art graphique . Curated by Jonas Storsve
  • 2012: Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. Reality Manifestos, or Can Dialectics Break Bricks? . Curated by Dimitrina Sevova
  • 2013: Les Abattoirs, Toulouse. Les Pléiades - 30 ans des FRAC
  • 2013: Parcours Art Basel, The Architect . Curated by Florence Derieux
  • 2014: Center Pompidou , Paris. Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain . Curated by Jonas Storsve
  • 2014: Migros Museum , Zurich. Sacré 101 - An Exhibition Based on the Rite of Spring . Curated by Raphael Gygax
  • 2014: Liverpool Biennale. A Needle Walks into a Haystack . Curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman
  • 2014: Aargauer Kunsthaus , Aarau. Docking station
  • 2015: Kunsthaus Zurich. Master Drawings, 100 Years of the Graphic Collection
  • 2015: Albertina , Vienna. Drawing Now . Curated by Elsy Lahner
  • 2015: Kunsthaus Zurich. Europe, the future of history . Curated by Cathérine Hug
  • 2015: Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Gent. The bottom line . Curated by Martin Germann and Philippe van Cauteren
  • 2016: FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand. A quoi tient la beauté des étreintes
  • 2016: KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg. Donations - Florence & Daniel Guerlain . Curated by Jonas Storsve
  • 2016: Rencontres d'Arles. Il ya de l'autre . Curated by Agnès Geoffray and Julie Jones
  • 2016: FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand. Return to the meilleur of the moon
  • 2016: Bâtiment d'Art Contemporain (BAC), Geneva. Nous pourrions in the ensemble
  • 2016: Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Zurich. Museum Revisited 1996–2016
  • 2017: Aargauer Kunsthaus. Cinéma mon amour. Film in Art
  • 2017: Helmhaus, Zurich. Eternal present, contemporary art from the Eth Zurich graphic collection
  • 2017: Center Pompidou, Paris. 10 Years Guerlain Drawing Prize
  • 2018: Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen. Auto fictions - drawing of the present
  • 2018: 21st Biennale of Sydney , Sydney. SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement . Curated by Mami Kataoka
  • 2019: The Athens Conservatory, Athens. Anatomy of Political Melancholy . Curated by Katerina Gregos
  • 2019: Migros Museum for Contemporary Art , Zurich. United by AIDS-An about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Artin Response to HIV / AIDS . Curated by Raphael Gygax
  • 2020: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao . Smoke and Mirrors: The Roaring Twenties . Curated by Cathérine Hug and Petra Joos

Monographs, catalogs and artist books (selection)

  • 2000: Across the Great Channel , artist book. Memory Cage editions, Zurich, ISBN 3-907053-14-1 .
  • 2005: Overthrowing the king in his own mind , exhibition catalog, Solothurn Art Museum. Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-38-65880-59-8 .
  • 2007: History of masculinity , artist book in collaboration with Vincent vd Marck. Attitudes, Geneva, ISBN 978-2-940178-11-7 .
  • 2009: STEEL , artist book, text by Jean-Charles Vergne, design Vincent van der Marck. FRAC Auvergne, ISBN 978-29-07672-07-8 .
  • 2011: Marc Bauer , monographic catalog for the exhibition Totstell-Reflexe, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin, ISBN 978-38-68281-60-6 .
  • 2012: The Beirut Experience , catalog. Published by attitudes, Geneva, ISBN 978-29-40178-19-3 .
  • 2013: The Collector , artist book. Published by the Center Culturel Suisse, Paris, ISBN 978-2-909230-13-9 .
  • 2013: Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain - Dessins contemporains , catalog. Published by the Center Pompidou , Paris, ISBN 978-2-84426-625-5 .
  • 2013: VITAMIN D2 - New perspectives in drawing , catalog. Published by Phaidon, London / New York, ISBN 978-0-7148-6528-7 .
  • 2014: Sacré 101 - An Exhibition Based on the Rite of Spring , catalog. Published by the Migros Museum, ISBN 978-3-03764-368-6 .
  • 2014: The Architect , artist book. Published by FRAC Auvergne, ISBN 978-2-907672-17-7 .
  • 2015: Master Drawings, 100 Years of the Graphic Collection , Exhibition Catalog. Published by the Kunsthaus Zürich, ISBN 978-3-85881-450-0
  • 2015: Europe, the future of history , exhibition catalog, published by the Kunsthaus Zürich, ISBN 978-3-03810-088-1
  • 2015: Drawing Now , exhibition catalog. Published by the Albertina, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-77742-434-7
  • 2015: The Bottom Line , exhibition catalog. Published by SMAK Ghent, ISBN 978-0-30022-009-4
  • 2017: Now-Tomorrow-Flux - An Anthology on the Museum of Contemporary Art , published by JPR Ringier, ISBN 978-3-03764-367-9
  • 2019: United by AIDS - An Anthology on Art in Response to HIV / AIDS Exhibition Catalog, ISBN 978-3-85881-839-3
  • 2020: The Blow-Up Regime, GASAG Art Prize 2020 . Exhibition catalog / artist book. Published by the Berlinische Galerie
  • 2021: White Violence, on domination, displacement and populism . Artist book. Published by FRAC Auvergne

Web links

Commons : Marc Bauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philipp Freytag: Bauer, Marc. In: General Artist Lexicon. 2014. KG Saur. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
  2. ↑ Jennifer Allen: Marc Bauer in conversation with Jennifer Allen . In: Marc Bauer . Kehrer Verlag and Art Museum St.Gallen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-868281-60-6 , p. 27.
  3. ^ Jean-Charles Vergne: Compost . In: Marc Bauer . Kehrer Verlag and Art Museum St.Gallen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-868281-60-6 , p. 7.
  4. ^ Marc Bauer: History of Masculinity . attitudes, Geneva 2007, ISBN 978-2-940178-11-7 .
  5. ^ Paul, Benjamin: Viewing Distance . In: Artforum , January 1, 2011. Accessed February 11, 2013. 
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss draftsman and artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva