Roland Muri

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Roland Muri in the studio in front of "Blondes have more fun", 2014

Roland P. Muri (born September 29, 1959 in Bern ) is a Swiss painter .

He was born the son of the juggler "Murando" ( Cirque Medrano and Cirque d'hiver , Paris) and a mother with American roots ( Dubuque , Iowa). Muri grew up as the middle of five children in Bern, Paris and Monaco.

Life

After finishing school, Muri attended the arts and crafts school in Bern (6 semesters), after which he traveled to Geneva for three years to train as a restorer for polychrome frames and panel paintings . In 1985 he had to give up this job for health reasons. He graduated with a degree in finance and then worked for a major Swiss bank. In 1996 he gave up this activity in order to devote himself entirely to art. Complementary studies at the School of Design in Bern ( serigraphy ), the Bern University of the Arts ( lithography ) and the International Summer Academy Salzburg (painting). Muri has been exhibiting internationally since 1998. His main studio is in Paris; He also has studios in Bern, Los Angeles and Berlin.

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Roland Muri describes his work as pop expressionism. "Pop expressionism makes use of the advertising aesthetics of Pop Art on the one hand and the emotional, intuitive expressiveness of abstract expressionism with content on the other." Muri works in groups of works, each of which has a fixed theme.

His main subjects are: the flag pictures, homage à Picasso, comics, the Goths, flowers, still lifes, nudes, icons, children's area and story pictures. In addition to the works on canvas in oil and acrylic, Muri created larger groups of photographic works, drawings, serigraphs and lithographs.

When moving his main warehouse in 2009, Muri destroyed his works on paper (photos, drawings, serigraphs and lithographs). Muri's artistic work, which is now in private and public collections (USA, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Austria, Japan, China, Czech Republic, Morocco and Sweden) is practically limited to paintings on canvas and Acrylic works on paper.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Rock und Art Museum: The Rolling Stones-Rock and Roll Circus (catalog, TV report), Lüchow (Germany), 2011
  • Société des Artistes Indépendants: Grand Palais, Paris du 22 au 27 Novembre, 2011, Catalog (page 77 - Flow of money and vegetarians)
  • CIGE Art Fair: China International Gallery Exposition 22. – 25. April 2010, catalog (page 18), Beijing (China), 2010
  • Long De Xuang-Art Center : Artists against the Crisis (catalog), Beijing (China), 2010
  • King of Pop Museum : Michael Jackson Portraits , Memorial Exhibition (TV report), 2009
  • Beverly Hills Women's Club : Pop Expressionism (Catalog), Beverly Hills (USA), 2007
  • Musée de l'Elysée : Tous Photographes (online catalog), Lausanne (Switzerland), 2007
  • Chelsea Art Museum : Role Models (catalog, TV report), New York (USA), 2003
  • Cologne City Museum : Querblick , Cologne (Germany), 2002
  • 49th Venice Biennale : Markers Project , Venice (Italy), 2001
  • Kunsthalle Bern : Christmas exhibition (catalog), Bern (Switzerland), 1992

Bibliography (selection)

  • Roland Muri, Masters of the Universe DVD booklet, 2009
  • Roland Muri, Popexpressionism , ArchivArte Verlag, 2007, text: Steffan Biffiger , ISBN 3-9522302-3-5
  • Roland Muri, Story Pictures, Zurich – Cologne – New York , Text: Steffan Biffiger , 2006
  • Roland Muri, exhibition Fondation Brignoni, 59 paintings in the FB, text Böhner, Mannheim 2000
  • Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK), already in the online catalog, entry in the next print catalog
  • Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists , Saur Verlag, Leipzig 2004
  • Edition manual , Verlag Depelmann (D)
  • Confronti attuali dell'imagine, arte contemporanea (I / A), 2002

Television (selection)

  • NDR News: Interview (D), 2010
  • Tele Bärn News: Interview (CH), 2009
  • ART-TV: Reportage / Interview (CH), 2007
  • ARD: Adventure World Art (D), 2005
  • SWR / KI.KA, Tigerenten Club episode 483: The tiger duck at Muri in the studio (D), 2005
  • RTL: Cooking with Oliver (D), 2005
  • Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), report: Art Meets Music "with Ronnie Wood and Hermann Rarebell (D), 2004
  • MTV (Munich), report: Art Meets Music "with Ronnie Wood and Hermann Rarebell (D), 2004
  • RTL good evening, report: Roland Muri / Horst Lichter in New York , 2003
  • WDR: With Lights on Tour (D), 2003
  • NRW: Really delicious with lights in New York (D), 2003

Other activities (selection)

In 2004 Muri took part in the “Art Meets Music” campaign together with Herman Rarebell ( The Scorpions ) and Ron Wood ( The Rolling Stones ). In 2003 he was next to Horst Lichter ambassador for the city of Cologne's Olympic application. Muri is committed to the Swiss Red Cross (SRK), in whose name several works were auctioned for charitable purposes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Described u. a. Steffan Biffiger , NY Arts, Lydia Keck, Kölner Rundschau, Renate Ross, Cologne Stadtanzeiger, Flash Art, Milano
  2. ↑ Explanation of the text “Masters of the Universe” by Steffan Biffiger
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artmeetsmusic.com
  4. ↑ Reporting in the SRK magazine and on the SRK homepage http://www.redcross.ch/
personal data
SURNAME Muri, Roland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muri, Roland P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern