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Marck:
born in Zurich 1964.
1982-1986: various exhibitions with pictures and mechanical
moving objects;
super-8, narrow-film installations.
1986-1996: musician with various bands (PARK, Blu Dolphin,
etc); projects (dance performance, sound-studio works,
multimedia rock concerts, various projects subsidised
by the city of Zurich).
1996-2001: various exhibitions and contract works with
photography, video installations, mechanical objects.
1998: further training in New York with the video artist
GMDthree.
2001: education as media designer and multimedia producer
(SAE).
2001 onwards: increasing number of exhibitions and video
objects.
Selection:
Exhibitions/Projects:
2011 Kunsthalle Osnabrück DE
2011 Galerie UF6 projects, Berlin
2011 Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich
2010 MONDEJAR Gallery, Zurich
2010 Michael Schultz, Berlin
2009 Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels Vienna
2005-2011 Lichtfeld Basel
2005 Haunch of Venison Zurich
2004-2011 Openart Graubünden
2003 ars electronica Linz
2003 Dialog Festival Winterthur
1997 Artvid97 New York
Artfairs:
2011 Scope artfair, Miami
2011 Art Miami artfair, Miami
2011 Lineart Gent, Belgien
2011 Kunst 11 Zürich, Switzerland
2011 Art fair Köln Germany
2011 ART MOSCOW Artfair
2011 the-solo-project Basel
2011 Scope artfair Basel
2011 Artfair Chicago
2011 Artfair Paris
2011 Scope artfair NYC
2010 Scope artfair , Miami
2010 Artfair Miami , Miami
2010 Lineart artfair, Belgien
2010 PAN amsterdam artfair Niederlande
2010 Zürich 10 artfair
2010 ARTFAIR 21, Köln ,Germany
2010 SLICKContemporary Art Fair Paris
2010 Munch Contempo International
2010 KIAF 10 Seoul, Korea
2010 Hotfair Basel
2010 SCOPE Artfair Basel
2010 Amsterdam Artfair 2010
2010 Vienna Artfair 2010
2010 SCOPE Artfair New York
2010 Bologna Arte Fiera, Italy
2010 London artfair, England
2009 SCOPE Artfair Miami
2009 SCOPE Artfair Basel
2009 SCOPE Artfair New York
2009 aaf Artfair London
2008 SCOPE Artfair Miami
2008 Contemporary art Istanbul
2008 SCOPE Hamptons
2008 SCOPE Artfair New York
2007 SCOPE Artfair Miami
Purchases:
Krupp / USA
Grande Finale Museum / France
Dosan Artcenter / Korea
Artcenter Istanbul / Turkey
various private collectors.
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Work in a movie studio ( Click
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to have a close look at the atelier
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A
woman with black, long hair lies on her back in a blue tiled
bath that is smaller than herself, and looks contentedly
at the observer. She initially turns to one side, and then
to the other, then back onto her back again, her gaze cast
on the observer. Then she does a somersault, swims back
to where she started and looks. Then the entire sequence
of moves begins from the start again in an endless loop.
The
video sculpture by Marck is called "Turkish Bath".
The bathtub as a sphere of life in which it is warm and
comfortable, and which offers a clearly bordered and defined
freedom of movement.
Four moves and even a somersault are possible, but that
already reaches the limits of liberty.
The woman in the Turkish bath will never stand and leave
her sphere of life (the bath tub).
The
content of Marck`s video sculptures always move on a screen
that began life as a cathode ray monitor or a LCD. The
screen cladding is dismantled, newly created or rebuilt.
A central part of the process is that the cladding always
corresponds to the content and thereby becomes a statement.
In the "Woman Case"for instance the monitors
have been reconstructed into a box in which a woman is
locked.
Marck`s
video sculptures demonstrate how a man sees and reflects
on the female world and the patterns of the relationships
between men and women. The man locks women up in a chest
or lies them in baths in which the women make themselves
at home in the hope that the casing or the sphere of life
around them will at some point dissolve without their
own actions.
There
is nothing unplanned or coincidental in Marck`s video
sculptures. He starts out with an idea of the sculptures
content and then begins the construction. Therefore there
is nothing playful about his use of technology, rather
the electronics become a means to and end, i.e. the mediator
of content.
This
is the precisely the same process with the casing, the
packaging of the content. In the 1990s Marck constructed
video installations for clubs in Zurich. The content of
these installations quickly became rigid and uninteresting
for him, triggering his search for how to dissolve the
boundaries between content and cladding. In the meantime
he has torn down the boundaries between content and medium.
The medium, the cladding of the sculpture, has itself
become the content and the message.
Marck
is represented in Swizerland by the Lichtfeld
gallery in Basle. Since 2007 his sculptures have been
touring worldwide with the likes of the art fair Scope.
The stations were New York, Miami, Istanbul, Seoul, Basle,
London, Munchen , Wien, Bolognia and the Ars Electronica
in Linz (Austria). Marck`s sculptures can be seen in the
Krupp Collection in the Boston Museum in the USA, in the
Grande Finale Museum in France, in the Dosan artcenter
in Korea or in the Artcenter Borusan in Istanbul. And
the video sculptures sit next to installations by Nam
June Paik in the homes of various private collectors.
The
purchase of Marck`s video sculptures gives the confrontation
with them a further dimension. From the date of sale the
owner has approximately 15 years in which to reach a decision.
The screen will work for about 15 years after purchase
before it will have to undergo a partial repair. Therefore
it depends on the buyer whether they let the woman float
for a further 15 years in the bath....
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