Lot 88: MARC BAUER

MARC BAUER SWISS B. 1975 UNTITLED (BAD WEATHER), UNTITLED (DOODSHOOFD), UNTITLED (PORTRET IVAN) 2009 each: 32 x 45 cm / 12.6 x 17.71" (3)

Some recent solo exhibitions
MAMCO, Geneva 2009, 'Premier conte sur le pouvoir'
Substitut Berlin, 2008, 'Stomme doos'
Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich 2007, 'Gegen mein Gehirn'
Praz-Delavallade, Paris 2006, 'History of Masculinity IV, Abendland'
Nicolas Krupp, Basel 2005, 'a short history of infamy'
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2004, 'Tautology'

Selected publications
Avis Newman, Alain Cueff, Tautology, Amsterdam: Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten 2005
A molecular history of everything (*well not everything), [s.l], Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 2005
Therese Bürki (ed.), Swiss art awards 2005, Bern: Bundesamt für Kultur 2005

Selected public and corporate collections
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR • Kunsthaus Zürich, CH • Kunstmuseum Solothurn, CH

donated by the artist

Marc Bauer works with drawings, videos and sculptures. His work examines matters of memory and remembrance as well as relationships based on power and domination. The subjects of his drawings are often related to his own life, either by means of personal childhood memories or of family accounts. His drawings are looking very poetic and subtle, but the concerning content is confronting. Most of his work deals with sex. 'Sex involves a lot of different aspects, as soon as there is sex there is also power balance, games, moral codes, intimacy... It's a big theme to hold together a lot of different issues. The viewer may find a meaning, or at least an attempt at meaning through the images, there he has to reconstruct the whole story.'

Marc Bauer was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 2002-2003.

www.marcbauer.ch