Marc Bauer 1975

Lives in Zürich, Zwitserland. Works in Zürich, Zwitserland.

Represented by:

KETELEER GALLERY

MARC BAUER (° 1975 in Geneva, Switzerland) is fascinated by several visual disciplines: drawing, painting and filmmaking.

From the very outset, Marc Bauer opted for pencil and eraser to create images that often evince traces of a long history. Before these images were selected by the artist for a continued, enhanced life, they had often already become iconic historical images in their own right. They therefore often form part of the collective social and historical memory, and are used individually or interspersed or mixed with imagery from the personal history of the artist. In short, these are images that have, in one way or another, found the artist. Marc Bauer, in drawing these pictures, attempts to get a grasp on reality.

Marc Bauer makes his drawings in normal or lithographic pencil, on small formats, on large formats, sometimes even as wall drawings, which are integrated into the surrounding architecture. The artist makes it very apparent that the images are ‘mediated’, that they have been translated into a different medium. Most often, they initially came to him as photographs, but are just as well taken from memories. Often, parts of drawings are erased, whereby traces of the effacing are used as the background for a new drawing. The slowness with which the entire process of realisation takes place, is extremely important to Bauer. Drawing creates a mental space for him.

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