126. MICHEL MAJERUS
 |
|
Untitled
1998 Silkscreen on cotton 160 x 140 cm |
 |
|
it's
cool man
1998 Enamel and silkscreen on aluminum 300 x 548 x 22 cm |
 |
|
Untitled, 2001
SILKSCREEN ON COTTON
60 X 60 CM
|
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1967 in Esch-sur-Alzette,
Luxembourg.
He died in a plane crash in 2002.
Studies:
He began to
study at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, graduating in
1992.
Themes and
style:
Majerus’
multi-faceted aesthetic world is one of Murakami’s cheeky Japanese anime, of
Kraftwerk’s pulsating German techno and Lichtenstein’s industrial brushstrokes.
Preferring tangential formatting over rigid, strict composition, he soon
realised he need not be confined by four edges. The artist goes about removing
the frame and canvas, painting directly onto gallery walls, a technique he
developed during a year-long sojourn in Los Angeles between 2000-2001.
Initiating an aspiring series of large-format paintings, Majerus discovered in
LA a physical environment which closely echoed his own anarchic and symbolic
imagination. Stimulated by the city’s concurrent obsession with mass media, the
artist’s references to pop culture go into overdrive.
Techniques:
His work
is developed in paintings and instalations.
Exhibitions
Majerus' artwork first came to international
attention in 1996 with an exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Stuttgart, and then
with subsequent exhibitions in Munster and Dundee. Commencing in 2005,
approximately two hundred of Majerus' works have been displayed as the
"European Retrospective" travelling exhibition. The exhibition was a
collaboration between the Majerus family and the Galerie Neugerriemschneider,
Berlin. It included works usually displayed at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin,
the Kunsthaus - Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz and from private collections
throughout the world (Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Germany,
Great-Britain, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Portugal, USA).
See more
at:
Representative
Galleries:
Matthew Marks
For
more Information: