La galleria francesco pantaleone arte Contemporanea è lieta di presentare la prima personale in Italia dell’artista svizzero Marc Bauer.



The two central points in all my works are memories and power balance. The installation Primus inter Pares is precisely about these two subjects: how we can see these images of the past, which distance we need) what distance we put between them and us. But also, what these images evoke in our present time, how could these peculiar events have some prophetic resonance's regarding the news. The faculty we have, seeing an image, is to make associations with our own memories in order to understand it, and at the end to be able to see it again. But how could we understand a relationship, a power balance? How to deconstruct the mechanism of power between the propaganda, and the fascination of the viewer? How to look at this “imbroglio” of sensations with a rational approach? The Reality is what we perceive from our immediate environment, that is a mental construction. History and morality are also construction. We need to have a coherent History therefore, we try to link all the events in a perspective to build up a coherent 'narrative'. Our history, our scale of values, our way of thinking are irrational.
Marc Bauer


Marc Bauer incontrerà gli studenti dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo in via Papireto 20, venerdì 8 maggio alle ore 11:00. L’incontro è aperto al pubblico.

Marc Bauer e la galleria francesco pantaleone ringraziano sentitamente il Cav. Franco Tomaselli della Polisportiva/scuola di pugilato “Nino Castellini” (via P. P. Rubens 2) per il prezioso e generoso contributo alla mostra.




MARC BAUER, 1975, Geneva/Ginevra CH.
Vive e lavora tra Amsterdam e Berlino/Lives and works between Amsterdam and Berlin

SOLO SHOWS
2009 Pugilato, galleria francesco pantaleone arte contemporanea - Palermo
2008 Art Statements, Art 39 Basel. CH 'Panorama, Todtnauberg'
2008 Substitut, Berlin, DE. 'Stomme Doos'
2007 Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zürich, CH. 'Gegen mein Gehirn'
2007 attitudes, espace d'arts contemporains, Geneva, CH. 'History of Masculinity, Epilogue'
2006 - 2007, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, F. 'History of Masculinity IV, Abendland'
2006 o.T. Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Luzern, CH. 'Geschichte der Männlichkeit'
2005 Nicolas Krupp, contemporary art gallery, Basel, CH. 'Eine kleine Geschichte der Infamie'
2005 Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, CH 'Overthrowing the King in his Own Mind' With Shahryar Nashat and Alexia Walther
2004 Store Gallery London, GB. 'Happier Healthier'
2004 SMBA (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam), Amsterdam, NL. 'Tautology'
2003 Espace "&" Daviet-Thery, Paris, F.
2001 attitudes, Geneva, CH. 'Archeology'
2000 Art-Magazin, Zürich, CH. 'Swiss Room'
GROUP SHOWS
2008 XV. Rohkunstbau, Potsdam. DE 'THREE COLORS - RED',
2008 Kunsthaus Zürich, CH. 'Shifting Identities'
2008 Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, DE, 'Gegen den Strich'
2008 Kunsthaus Zürich, CH. 'Intro'
2007 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE. 'Gegen Den Strich'
2007 FRAC Alsace, Selestat, FR. 'Drôles de je'
2007 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art - MMSU, Rijeka, Croatia. 'Body as spectacle. Collections sans Frontieres VII.'
2006 FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, FR. 'Collection V'
2006 Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián, ES. 'Glaskultur'
2005 MAC - Museum of contemporary art, Santiago de Chile, CL. 'Buenos Días Santiago - an exhibition as expedition '
2005 Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow, UK.
2005 Messe Basel, CH. Swiss Awards
2005 Spazio Lima, Milano, IT'. A show without works | Una mostra senza opere'
2004 ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Melbourne, AU. 'A Molecular History of Everything'
2004 Galerie d’art contemporain Donzévansaanen, Lausanne, CH.
2004 Store Galery, London, UK. 'Summer Pursuits'
2004 Messe Basel, CH. Swiss Awards
2004 Helmhaus, Zürich, CH. 'Fürchte Dich'
2003 Postbahnhof am Ostbahnhof, Berlin, DE. 'Lautloses irren, ways of worldmaking, too'
2003 Cohan Leslie & Brown Gallery, New York, US. 'Little triggers'
2003 Kunsthalle, Zürich, CH. '20 Jahre Binz Stiftung'
2003 Galerie Zürcher, Paris. F, 'Archéologies'
2002 Messe Basel, CH. Swiss Awards
2001 Messe Basel, CH. Swiss Awards
2001 Stiftung Bin 39, Zürich, CH
2000 Walcheturm Kunstraum, Zürich, CH. 'Missing'
2000 Palais de l'Athénée, Genève, CH
1999 Fonds Cantonal de Décoration et d'Art Visuel, Genève, CH. '1999'
1999 Kulturzentrum-Seedamm, Pfäffikon, CH. 'East of fame - and making art for the future'
AWARDS
2009 Prix culturel Manor, Geneva, CH
2006 Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
2005 Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
2002 Festival Videoex, Zürich, CH
2001 Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2006 FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, FR.
2005 Sturzenegger Stiftung, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, CH.
2005 Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, CH.