Martin Schwarz (artist)

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Martin Schwarz (born August 10, 1946 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss painter, concept and object artist, photographer, author and publisher.

Life

Martin Schwarz trained as a graphic artist-lithographer from 1963 to 1967, and also attended the Zurich School of Applied Arts. He has been a freelance artist since 1968. His areas of activity include: painting , object art , environment , film , photography , multiple , kinetic art , wall painting , drawing , screen printing , collage , photo art , conceptual art , installation , computer art and the publication of books .

Exhibition opening for the art zoo on May 4, 2014 in Schrozberg

Martin Schwarz is a versatile artist and wanderer between the art, everyday, relationship and media worlds. He is a very sensitive and a very watchful person, open to all concerns, regardless of whether it is about nature, the man-made environment, small episodes or world events. For many years, Schwarz has been creating new art worlds in a multi-faceted manner and linking the reality of the here and now with its fantasy worlds. It often requires intensive observation in order to grasp the diversity and the rationale of his works of art in their entirety. The artist has worked with Oscar winner HR Giger since 1982 and has designed several exhibitions with him.

Schwarz has been married since 1992 and has two children. He runs the EigenArt publishing house, lives in Winterthur and Bartenstein .

Works (selection)

  • Sunday painting with pitfalls (1984)
  • Transformations of Pictures and Books (2002)
  • Art chess. Game book with 69 chess board variations. An Illustrated Thinking Capriccio (2006)
  • Picturesque letters from Kassel. The Anna-Chronista. Old Masters and a Motorboat, a Poppy Souvenir, a Little Chocolate Shock, Some Keywords and More (2007)
  • The book-book. Book objects - Book pictures - Egon Plüsch and the novel that slipped away (2008)
  • New dogs. Photographs, models and reports of a futuristic development. A Baden Grotesque (2009)
  • Biography in work and personal documents in an anachronistic, but not random, order. From the mobile ideas store. Word visions, responses to René Magritte (2010)
  • The Nietzsche House in Sils-Maria as a chamber of art and curiosities. A kaleidoscope of texts, images, dreams, documents (together with Peter André Bloch , 2011)
  • Sediments of the Night (with Jean-Claude Wolf, Alfred Denker and Ernst Hövelborn, 2012)
  • Zelli and Jakob. A Philosophical APPENZELLER ALLOTRIA ... (2014)
  • Nothing as it is or not. An anthology with guides to a quintessence: manifold structural images (2017)
Art zoo visitor, work by Martin Schwarz in the exhibition in Schrozberg 2014

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Keller-Galerie, Winterthur (first solo exhibition, 1968)
  • Galerie Katakombe, Basel (with Alfred Auer, 1971)
  • Gallery Kümmel, Cologne (1971)
  • Kurfürstendamm Berlin (floor organ, 1971)
  • Graphics Biennale, Kraków (1972)
  • Kunstmacher '73, Schaffhausen (1973)
  • Denise René Gallery , Hans Meyer, Düsseldorf (1974)
  • Ambiente 74, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Lugano, Geneva (1974)
  • Gallery Handschin, Basel (1975)
  • Gallery Die Brücke, Vienna (1975)
  • documenta 6 , Kassel (1977)
  • Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart (1978)
  • My Cologne Cathedral , Cologne Art Association (1980)
  • Kunsthaus Zurich (1981)
  • Artothek of the City of Cologne (1982)
  • Galerie Klein, Bonn (with Hansruedi Giger , 1983)
  • Maibaum , Fluxeum , Wiesbaden (1986)
  • Copain Vincent , Kunstmuseum Olten, 1988
  • Opening exhibition of the Kunstkammer in Bartenstein Castle (1994)
  • Nietzsche House, Sils-Maria (1994)
  • Natural History Museum Leipzig (1999)
  • Exhibition 'Im this side of the living' by Martin Schwarz, on April 12, 2003 in the gallery of the Museum Hansruedi Giger , in the Château Saint Germain in Gruyères
  • Alexandrowka Museum , Potsdam (2008)
  • Museum of Mining Folk Art , Schneeberg (2010)
  • Hällisch-Franconian Museum , Schwäbisch Hall (2011)
  • Freiberg University Library (2012)
  • Schrozberg Art Zoo (2014)

Art zoo exhibitions in Schrozberg Castle

The "art zoo" is a collection of pictures, objects and prints that revolve around the theme: "The animal in art". It represents the artistic spectrum of the Swiss artist. The main theme is the mysterious nature of the animal. The observer of the art objects is invited to experience the animal representations between mythical creatures, threatening counterparts, scientific phenomena and beloved cuddly toys. Schwarz integrated everything into alienated books, "often animals or parts of them". The head of a chamois protrudes from one book, another rests on the legs of a deer. An ermine appears from a torn book. Animal antlers grow from flower pots and handbags, bears shred books. Reading people enter into metamorphoses with the book theme and landscape in the course of picture cycles. In terms of design, he deals with artists such as Picasso, Modigliani, Feininger, Cezanne and many others and transforms their works in an extremely subtle way. The exhibition also includes works by other artists selected by Schwarz who deal with the animal in an interesting, sometimes tense context. So you can also see the original "Alien" representations of its creator and Oscar winner HR Gieger. The artist is constantly expanding the permanent exhibition in Schrozberg Castle.

Awards / Scholarships

  • Travel grant from the Kunstverein Winterthur (1969)
  • Scholarship from the City of Winterthur (1969)
  • Scholarship from the Canton of Zurich (1969, 1970)
  • Scholarship from the Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation, Lucerne (1972)
  • Federal Art Scholarship, Bern (1973, 1974, 1975)
  • Art Prize of the Young Art Forum, Bochum (1977)
  • Carl Heinrich Ernst Art Prize (1992)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon and database on art in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein. In: Sikart

literature

  • Black, Martin . In: Lexicon of contemporary Swiss artists . Verl. Huber Frauenfeld / Stuttgart, 1981. p. 333. ISBN 3-7193-0765-4
  • Biography in work and personal documents in an anachronistic, but not random order: from the mobile ideas store; Word visions, replies to René Magritte . Winterthur, 2010. ISBN 978-3-905506-26-6
  • Schwarz, Martin , Zelli and Jakob, a philosophical APPENZELLER-ALLOTRIA, catalog for the permanent exhibition Art Zoo in Schrozberg Castle, Winterthur 2014, ISBN 978-3-905506-30-3

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personal data
SURNAME Black, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist, author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur