Marco Spitzar

Marco Spitzar 2017

Marc Michael "Marco" Spitzar (born May 28, 1964 in Georgsmarienhütte ) is a German-Austrian conceptual artist and media specialist. He lives and works in Schwarzach in Vorarlberg .

Life

Marc Michael Spitzar was born in Northern Germany in 1964. After moving to Bludenz , Vorarlberg in 1977 , he attended the HTBLVA Graz-Ortweinschule from 1980 to 1986 . He then studied from 1987 to 1992 the master class sculpture Bruno Gironcoli at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . Between 1996 and 1998, lengthy stays in Senegal (West Africa) are part of his résumé. In addition to numerous exhibitions as an organizer and artist, prizes and awards, he worked as a consultant, conceptionist and creative director for larger advertising agencies.

In 1999, Marco Spitzar and his then business partner founded the Spitzar agency based in Vorarlberg. In 2014 the separation took place and Marco Spitzar founded the studio spitzar in 2015 with a vision.

The Page magazine wrote in the online edition of February 2016: "I like Page .... Studio Spitzar from Dornbirn that bathes itself in soft pink, pressed flowers and einschweißt rubber boots and so exciting corporate design created, most beautiful Packingdesign - and magnificent irritation"

art

One color and one motif that has determined Marco Spitzar's work since 1999 is the color olive green. At the beginning it was military motifs that cast a spell over the declared pacifist Spitzar, but later he takes the duality of color and image to absurdity by removing everyday objects from their context and placing them in a new context by covering them with military green puts.

Herta Pümpel, curator of the Kunstraum Dornbirn about Marco Spitzar: “Approaching Marco Spitzar's work requires thinking and feeling in terms of opposites. His pictures radiate a reserved, cool reserve and at the same time are very present, demanding and intense. His compositions are unusual, confusing and enigmatic. Human figures wear pretzels on tiptoe, on their chins, or vaguely balancing and then leaning back against heads. Are they scenes from a theater performance or a circus performance? "

"Eagle owl"

UHU has played an important role in Marco Spitzar's work for over 35 years . He runs through all phases of his work. With the adhesive, Spitzar creates new surface structures in his pictures that make the contents transparent and sublime. He is thus moving away from a flat to a three-dimensional representation. He achieves this structure and its effect by applying UHU several times, which hardening results in the characteristic bubbles and thus a special plasticity. The UHU container, the “nimble bottle”, also has a special place in his oeuvre, which also appears again and again as a basic form and motif.

In 2018 Marco Spitzar received the Joseph Binder Award. For the program of the Vorarlberger Landestheater 2017/18 Spitzar designed ten motifs using adhesive technology. Its content relates to the plays of the season, the main theme of which is the tension between power and play, male and female, large and small.

Awards

• 2005: AdWin in the packaging category, customer of the Frastanz brewery
• 2006: Golden Pixel Award Silver, client Bregenz Festival
• 2007: AdWin in the print communication category, customer Bregenz Festival
• 2009: AdWin in the dialogue marketing category, customer Lufthansa Training & Conference Center Seeheim
• 2011: AdWin in the poster category, client Landestheater Vorarlberg
• 2011: AdWin in the Corporate Design category, client of the Vorarlberg State Theater
• 2014: VLOW Award, Hard: Leben am See
• 2016: Gala Spa Award in the Mens Concept category, customer Pharmos Natur
• 2017: AdWin in the category of non-commercial advertising, customer of the Vorarlberg State Theater
• 2018: Joseph Binder Award

Exhibitions

• Orpheum, Graz | City Hall, Graz | Galerie am Lendplatz, Graz - traveling exhibition in the Austrian provincial capitals
• Museum of the 21st Century, Vienna | Böhlerhaus, Vienna | You are entering the Academy, Vienna | Personal Theseus Temple , Vienna | Video installations in the Academy of Fine Arts and Technical University , Vienna | Documentary about the Academy of Fine Arts ( ORF 2 )
• 1992: Personal showcases | Villa of all kinds, Bludenz
• 1992: Acquisitions by the State of Vorarlberg and the Vorarlberg State Museum
• 1993: Art is half the battle, Bludenz | Villa of all kinds, Bludenz | Rectory, Dornbirn
• 2013: A question of size , Galerie.Z Hard
• 2013: Gray Book , Art Bodensee
• 2013: Glass tents , Thurnher's Alpenhof, Zürs
• 2013: Deck (en) mantel , ArtDesign Feldkirch
• 2014: Personal Art. Vorarlberg , Villa Claudia, Feldkirch
• 2015: Palais Thurn and Taxis Bregenz
• 2017: Personal Gallery, Artdepot Innsbruck
• 2017: Acquisition of Paneum , Asten
• 2017: Face to Face - Spitzar meets Kalb , Rohnerhaus Lauterach
• 2018: Exhibition Vorarlberger Landestheater
• 2018: Household goods Braun , Galerie.Z Hard
• 2019: Uhuism , artDepot Innsbruck
• 2019: Constant questions about density , Lorünser Villa Bludenz
• 2019: Presentation of Art Savings Book 2019 , Sparkasse Bregenz
• 2019: We come into the world glued together , Sagmeister DER MANN Bregenz

Fonts

• A question of size. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems / Vienna / Vaduz 2013, ISBN 978-3-99018-200-0 .

literature

• Roland Jörg, Gerald Matt: Art is half the battle . Sonderzahl Verlag, 1993, ISBN 978-3-85449-056-2 .
• Klaus Feldkircher: The logic of the picture . Bucher Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-99018-256-7 .
• Klaus Feldkircher, Herta Pümpel: Face to Face - Spitzar meets Kalb , edition V, 2017, ISBN 978-3-9504280-6-3 .
• Gabriele Koller: 60 days Austrian Museum of the 21st Century , University of Applied Arts, Vienna 1989, ISBN 978-3-85211-001-1 , pp. 62–63.
• Spitzar, Marc Michael. In: Fine arts in Vorarlberg 1945–2005. Biographical lexicon. Published by the vorarlberg museum and the Künstlerhaus Bregenz , Hohenems 2006, ISBN 978-3-902525-36-9 , pp. 290–291.

Web links

• Literature by and about Marco Spitzar in the catalog of the German National Library
• All digital channels
• Marco Spitzar
• Studio Spitzar

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fine arts in Vorarlberg 1945–2005 , Marc Michael Spitzar, pp. 290–291.
2. ↑ Studio spitzar celebrates the birth of a new species. Retrieved February 7, 2018 (Austrian German). 
3. ↑ Agency portrait: studio spitzar . In: PAGE online . February 9, 2016 ( page-online.de [accessed February 7, 2018]).
4. ↑ Frastanzer anniversary cellar beer - WKO - advertising - market communication. Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Take a Seat - WKO - Advertising - Market Communication. Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Spitzar Concept and Bregenz Festival receive the Golden Pixel Award. Retrieved February 7, 2018 (Austrian German). 
7. ↑ Kulturkunstkommunikation - WKO - Werbung - Marktkommunikation. Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Lufthansa construction site invitation - WKO - advertising - market communication. Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
9. ^ T-heads - WKO - advertising - market communication. Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
10. ↑ VLOW Award: Hard: Leben am | See - WKO - advertising - market communication. Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
11. ↑ VLOW! AWARD 2014 | Congress culture Bregenz. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 8, 2018 ; accessed on February 7, 2018 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Nature of Men - WKO - Advertising - Market Communication. Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Nominees & Award Winners 2017 - DIE GALA SPA AWARDS. Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
14. ^ Garden of Earthly Delights - WKO - Advertising - Market Communication. Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Advice and communication - Pzwei. Press work. Accessed February 7, 2018 (German).