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This year’s non-profit programme of new artist commissions at Frieze London is curated by Raphael Gygax (Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich) and will feature eleven artists from eight countries across the world.
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Marc Bauer’s exhibition titled "An Unser Schicksal Von Heute Und Morgen” (To Our Fate of Today and Tomorrow) is on view at Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich through April 1, 2017.
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Marc Bauer will start teaching at the Zurich University of the Arts from September 2015
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The London commission follows one in Liverpool by the Venezuelan optical artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, who has decorated the pilot ship, the Edmund Gardner
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The Liverpool Biennial’s Director, Sally Tallant has announced the programme of events for 2014. This year's event will take place from 5 July – 26 October
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Following the deliberations of the Contemporary Drawing Prize's committee, the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Foundation has announced the names
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Born in 1975 in Geneva, Switzerland, Marc Bauer lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin. Bauer’s drawings, installations and videos suggest a mix of childhood memories and fantasies that repeatedly transgress taboos. His works unsettle a traditional understanding of morality, disrupting landmarks of social behavior. By using deliberately simple lines, Bauer lends his disturbing subject matter a mundane quality. This technique reminds viewers of the commonplace nature of violent acts, often committed in anonymous living rooms close by. With reference to his series on teenagers “Happier Healthier” (2004), Bauer has said: “How to behave in front of these images? Please, keep up appearances pretend that these drawings are funny, but don't be fooled, it might serious, it might have happened”.
Marc Bauer has recently presented solo exhibitions at The Astronaut (2013); Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris. Le Collectionneur (2013); La Station, Nice. Pleins Pouvoirs, septembre (2012); Musée d'art de Pully, with Sara Masüger, Lausanne. Le ravissement mais l'aube, déjà (2012);Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel. Nature as Territory (2012); Freymond-Guth, Zürich. Der Sammler (2012); Centre d’Art du Hangar à Bananes, Nantes. Le réel est inadmissible, d’ailleurs il n’existe pas (2011); Beirut Art Center, Beirut. The Beirut Experience (2011); ReMap 3, Athens. 'History of Masculinity III: The Great expectation of M. H.' (2011); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen. 'Totstell-Reflexe' part in cooperation with Christine Abbt (2010-2011); Mamco, Geneva (2009), Kunsthaus St. Gall (2009), CAR Projects gallery, Bologna (2009), Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (2009), Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2009) and Substitut, Berlin (2008). His work has also been shown as part of “Made in China” at Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern (2009), “Shifting Identities” at Kunsthaus Zürich (2008) and Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Vilnius (2009), “Gegen Den Strich” at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2007), “Drôles de je” at FRAC Alsace, Selestat, France (2007) and “Buenos Días Santiago - an exhibition as expedition” at MAC - Museum of contemporary art, Santiago de Chile (2005). He has been awarded the Manor Prize, Geneva (2009).
Marc Bauer is represented by Deweer Gallery, Ortegem, Belgium.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
