Press kit Marc Bauer Cinérama Exhibition from July 4 th to October 31 st 2015 In partnership with the FRAC Auvergne, FRAC Alsace, the Swiss Consulate of Marseille, the Freymond-Guth Fine Arts Gallery of Zurich, The School of art and design Marseille-Mediterranée and the Dock des Suds. With the support of Pro Helvetia, Swiss Foundation for Culture. FRAC Fonds Régional d Art Contemporain Provence Alpes Côte d Azur 20, bd de Dunkerque 13002 Marseille www.fracpaca.org +33 (0)4 91 91 27 55 accueil@fracpaca.org Le FRAC est financé par la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d Azur et le ministère de la Culture et de la communication / Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Provence-Alpes-Côte d Azur. Il est membre de Platform, regroupement des Fonds régionaux d art contemporain et membre fondateur du réseau Marseille Expos.
Marc Bauer, Call of Duty I, 2011, dessin, crayon gris sur papier, 71 x 101 cm, courtesy de l artiste et Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich
Table of contents Press conference 4 Opening 4 Exhibition 4 Nocturnes 4 Curator 4 Partners and aid 4 Press contact 4 The FRAC s Documentation center 5 Around the exhibition 6 Showcase on art: Marc Bauer 6 Exhibition 7 List of works 8 Marc Bauer 's biography 11 Partners 17 Galerie Freymond-Guth, Zurich 17 FRAC Auvergne 17 FRAC Alsace 17 Consulat général de Suisse à Marseille 17 Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture. 17 Galeries Lafayette Marseille 18 Le Domaine de la Solitude 18 Partenaire média 18 The FRAC 19 Practical informations 19 Page 3
Marc Bauer Cinérama July 4th to October 31st 2015 Invitation for the press Friday, July 3 rd from 11 am Opening Friday, July 3 rd from 6pm to 9pm Exhibition From Saturday, July 4 th, 2015 to Saturday, October 31 st 2015 Nocturnes Fridays July 24 th 2015, August 28 th, September 18 th, October 9 th, Free entry from 6pm to 9 pm Curator Pascal Neveux Partners and aid In partnership with the FRAC Auvergne, FRAC Alsace, the Swiss Consulate of Marseille, the Freymond-Guth Fine Arts Gallery of Zurich, The School of art and design Marseille-Mediterranée and the Dock des Suds. With the support of Pro Helvetia, Swiss Foundation for Culture. The Frac receives assistance from the Domaine de la Solitude, Châteauneuf-du Pape Press contacts FRAC Communication: Marie-Aurélie Elkurd communication @fracpaca.org +33 (0)4 91 90 30 47 Public Relation: Patricia Joannides patriciajpress@gmail.com/ +33 (0)6 12 24 01 11 Access to press releases http://www.fracpaca.org/espace-presse Page 4
The FRAC s Documentation center - Publications and ephemeral library - Marc Bauer Call of Duty I, 2011 Courtesy Galerie Freymond Guth (Zürich) and Marc Bauer Marc Bauer lends suggestions via his ephemeral library ; regarding a selection of publications and films with a privileged look into his exhibit s project and inspiring readings and reference work. This selection, designed as an extension of the exhibition and accompanied by the artist s publications is an invitation, unveiling another angle of Marc Bauer s work. - MUET 2 Marseille Méditerranée s School of art and Design (ESADMM). Showcasing a selection of original drawings as featured in MUET. This MUET is the second notebook of drawings from a collection created at the School of art and design Marseille-Méditerranée 2014-2015. A wide representation of students, having chosen the option art and design, artist-teachers, guests including artist Marc BAUER, as well as international students have herein reproduced their definition of a certain territory built around their defining creativity. Tools, gesture and mediums are experimented upon, motifs evolve, motivations meet head to head. Julien Cyril Abie /Rémy Arcucci /Victor Aube-Martin /Marc Bauer / Zélie Belcour /Sabrina Belouaar /Geoffrey Blan /Aurélien Bouillet / Patrice Carré / Pierre-Laurent Cassière /Catherine Cointe /Béata Czudor /Olek Do Sophie Durastante /Gérard Fabre /Sylvie Fajfrowska /Norma Foschia /Isciane Gastal /Laura Giner /Lusine Ghukasyan /Laurane Gourdon-Fahrni/Antoine Grullier /François- Xavier Guiberteau /Filip Harna /Claudius Hausl /Caroline Jalinot / Charlie Jeffery /Kailim /Ronan Kerdreux /Hélio Levacher / Frédérique Loutz /Xi Luo /Clara Marciano /Daniel Mitelberg / Timothée Monier /Vince Musy & Livia Ripamonti//Gaëlle Oder / Alexis Ori /Pierre Pauselli /Pierre Pauselli & Antoine Grulier / Nicolas Pérez /Hervé Priou /Rafaël Rabaud /Juliette Righetti /Alain Rivière / Romain Rondet /Sébastien Roulet /Marta Rueda /Sabrina Salese-Klasser /Carine Santi-Weil /Pauline Scopetani /Hélios Sebastian I Mélissa Sid /Su-mei Tang /Maël Traica /Nathalie Tworek /Pierre-Etienne Ursault /Li Yuhang /Lyu Yun-Shan. Cover: Frédérique Loutz & Nicolas Pérez Project initiated and brought to conception by Frédérique Loutz and Marta Rueda. Original productions are all in black and white, maximum format 42x29.7cm. Sale price: 25 euros Page 5
-Publication The book entitled The Architect was published expressly for three exhibits devoted to Marc Bauer by the FRAC Auvergne, FRAC Alsace and the FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d Azur. AROUND THE EXHIBITION Cinema-concert Kafka & Marc Bauer Thursday, October 8 th 2015 at 9pm Dock des Suds, 2 rue Urbain V, 13002 Marseille An animated film of Marc Bauer s film The Architect will be projected, accompanied by a live performance by Kafka, author of the sound recording. Concert version of Jean Renoir s silent film the Little Match Girl, 1928 after Andersen s fable. KAFKA: Guillaume Mazard (bass), Rémi Aurine-Belloe (guitar, vibraphone), Rémi Faraut (drums, percussion), Emmanuel Siachouet (guitar). Showcase on art: Marc Bauer July 2 nd July 29 th 2015 opening; Thursday July 2 nd 2015 Galeries Lafayette located at 40-48 rue Saint Ferréol, 13001 Marseille In the framework of this event, the FRAC and Galeries Lafayette have invited Marc Bauer to showcase his work in a window at Galeries Lafayette, Saint Ferréol, Marseille. This installation echoes an exhibit presented at FRAC PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D AZUR throughout the summer. Page 6
Exhibition After the FRAC Auvergne (spring 2014 and the FRAC Alsace 2014-2015), the FRAC PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D AZUR subsequently opens its doors for the third chapter of the solo exhibit entitled Cinerama, dedicated to Marc Bauer. Z1, 1936 (0,176kB memory), Drawing grey pencil on paper, 213cm x 303cm, 2013 Marc Bauer s work is built upon an enlarged practice around drawing in varied formats and mediums ranging from traditional paper to a projection of images and mural drawings. Marc Bauer s work is based on an inquest into the manner History has been written while imbedded in the story of those writing it or when partially falsified by way of contaminating, invented elements.. History has always been treated in major works as an incomplete, resembling a matrix of narration, like a poetic field wherein events become objects of re-appropriation, submitted to a kind of faltering beginnings, derived from a partially damaged archeology, comprised of bits and pieces assembled with the glue of personal memories. This exhibit, entitled Cinerama, broadens the artist s research, staging them from a viewpoint of filmic territory, including the film The Architect, based on F.W. Murnaus s film Nosferatu, whose horrific symphony dated 1922 is a culmination [.] (J.C. Vergne) From filmic image to intimate souvenir, Marc Bauer s work is thus imbued with narrations taking form there where layers of the past combine with that of the imaginary. With a great economy of means, the artist unravels his universe from a series of collective, familial or autobiographical stories, he unveils as freeze frames of a same sequence. Bearers of a language we can easily appropriate, the material sketches itself out for the eye as a screen subject to new projections. In his graphic work, Bauer transgresses notably technical conventions and, through qn qngle of dilution the disappearance of motifs. This freedom he often accords himself allows his drawing to brush up against pictorial dimensions. Working on diverse types of mediums and formats, exploiting both assembling and projection, he likewise uses other techniques including his allegorical tapestry Melancholia, produced in Aubusson. 1 Marc Bauer fills both floors during the FRAC s exhibition as well as the multimedia floor. His show will be punctuated with encounters held at the FRAC notably in the documentation center for the presentation of his publication including the Architect (coedition: FRAC Auvergne, FRAC Alsace, FRAC Provenc-Alpes-Côte d Azur, 2014) and the launching of his magazine MUET 2 produced in the framework of Marc Bauer s invitation at the School of art and design Marseille-Méditerranée (ESADMM). 1 extract from the accompagnying leaflet created by the FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'azur - text by Nizza Santiago Hors les murs / off site, The FRAC PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D AZUR has invited Marc Bauer to show his work for the seventh edition of Art Showcases in July followed this Autumn by a Cinema-concert Kafka &Marc Bauer at the Dock des Suds Marseille. Page 7
List of presented work Stage exhibition 1 & 2 (provisional order) Cinéma, 2013 Drawing grey pencil on paper 45 x 64 cm Courtesy of the artist and Freymond- Guth Fine Arts, Zurich Portrait en Sphinx, Mathieu Amalric, 2013 1 drawing: 70 x 70 cm 2 texts: 2 x (52 x 45 cm) 2 drawings: 2 x (32 x 45 cm) Drawing, grey pencil on paper Sceneries Metropolis, 1927, 2013 Oil painting on Plexiglas sheets 17 x (30 x 40 cm) Skeletthaus, 2009 Black and white slides 80 slides 24 x 36 mm in a carousel cart Triumph, 2009 Drawing, grey pencil on paper 211 x 301 cm whole set Cinéma, 2013 Drawing, grey pencil on paper 45 x 64 cm Boy, 2010 Drawing, grey, black and color pencil on paper 216 x 309 cm The Astronaut, 2013 Animated black and white film, silent. Blu-Ray 40 seconds (looped) Screening ~60 x 80 cm Planet of the Apes, 1968, 2013 Drawing, grey pencil on paper 5 x (32 x 45 cm) Page 8
Call of Duty I and II, 2011 Drawing, grey pencil on paper (71 x 101 cm) Boy, 2010 Drawing, grey, black and color pencil on paper 216 x 309 cm Courtesy of the artist and Freymond- Guth Fine Arts, Zurich Abendland, 2007 Text, drawing, grey pencil on paper 45 x 32 cm Abendland Supernova, 2013 Drawing, grey pencil on paper 45 x 64 cm Z1, 1936 (0,176kB memory), 2013 Drawing, grey pencil on paper 213 x 303 cm Original copy sheets of the animated film, The Architect, 2013 Oil painting of Plexiglas sheets 45 x (30 x 40 cm) Monument, 2009 Drawing, grey pencil on paper 20 x (32 x 45 cm) Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, acquired by Gesellschaft der Freunde bildender Kunst 2011/2012 Roman-Odessa, 2009 Drawing, grey, black and color pencil on paper 17 x (32 x 45 cm), including 2 frames and 1 x (102 x 72 cm, Amnézia) Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, acquired by Gesellschaft der Freunde bildender Kunst 2011/2012 Salò, 2009 Drawing, grey and black pencil on paper 4 x (70 x 70 cm) Collection of the Contemporary Art Funds of the City of Geneva Melancholia I, 2013 Wool (weaving), cotton (chain) H 3,60 m x L 300 cm Loom setter: Patrick Guillot International museum of tapestry, Aubusson Page 9
Wall drawings Cinéma, 2014 Digital printing on paper Variable dimensions Call of Duty I et II, 2011 Drawing, grey pencil on paper (71 x 101 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Freymond- Guth Fine Arts, Zurich Germania, 2014 Wall drawing, black chalk Variable dimensions Warship, 2014 Wall drawing, black chalk Variable dimensions No title, 2015 Wall drawing, black chalk Variable dimensions Multimedia Stage The Architect, 2013 Animated film, in sound, black/white and colored 29 minutes FRAC Auvergne collection Filmstill of The Architect - 2013 - Oil painting on Plexiglas sheets - 30x40 cm - Courtesy Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zürich Page 10
Biography Marc Bauer Marc Bauer was born in 1975, in Geneva He lives and works in Zurich and Berlin He is represented by the Freymond-Guth Gallery in Zurich Education 1995-1999 > Ecole Supérieure d'art Visuel, Geneva 2002-2003 > Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam Solo exhibitions 2015 > FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'azur, Marseille. Cinerama > Deweer Gallery, Otegem. Static / Unfolding Time 2014 > Museum Folkwang, Essen. Der Sammler - Nachbilder > FRAC Alsace, Sélestat. Cinerama > Le Quartier, Quimper. In the Past, Only > FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand. Cinerama 2013 > Freymond-Guth Fine Arts Ltd., Zürich. The Astronaut > Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris. Le Collectionneur 2012 > La Station, Nice. Pleins Pouvoirs, Septembre > Musée d'art de Pully, with Sara Masüger, Lausanne. Le ravissement mais l'aube, déjà > Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel. Nature as Territory > Freymond-Guth, Zürich. Der Sammler 2010 > Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen. Totstell-Reflexe. Part in cooperation with Christine Abbt 2009 > CAR Projects gallery, Bologna. E la neve e il trionfo > MAMCO, Geneva. Premier conte sur le pouvoir > Praz-Delavallade gallery, Paris. Ambassade > Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand. LAQUE Page 11
2008 > Statements, Art Basel 39. Panorama, Todtnauberg > Substitut, Berlin, DE. Stomme Doos 2007 > Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zürich. Gegen mein Gehirn. Part in cooperation with Christine Abbt > attitudes, espace d'arts contemporains, Geneva. History of Masculinity, Epilogue 2006 > Praz-Delavallade, Paris. History of Masculinity IV, Abendland > o.t. Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Luzern. Geschichte der Männlichkeit 2005 > Nicolas Krupp, contemporary art gallery, Basel. Eine kleine Geschichte der Infamie > Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn Overthrowing the King in his Own Mind, with Shahryar Nashat and Alexia Walther 2004 > Store Gallery London. Happier Healthier > SMBA (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam), Amsterdam. Tautology 2003 > Espace "&" Daviet-Thery, Paris 2001 > attitudes, Geneva. Archeology 2000 > Art-Magazin, Zürich. Swiss Room Group exhibitions 2015 > S.M.A.K., Ghent. The Bottom Line. Curated by Martin Germann and Philippe van Cauteren > Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle. 8th Triennial of Contemporary Prints > Kunsthaus Zurich. Europa, Die Zukunft der Geschichte. Curated by Cathérine Hug > Albertina Museum, Vienna. Drawing Now. Curated by Elsy Lahner > Kunstverein Konstanz. Meeting Point. Curated by Axel Lapp > Freymond-Guth Fine Arts Ltd., Zurich. Borrowed Alibis > Drawing Room, London. Drawing Biennial > Kunstverein Speyer. Hans-Purrmann-Preise 2015 - Ausstellung der Bewerber > Kunsthaus Zurich. Meisterzeichnungen, 100 Jahre Grafische Sammlung Page 12
2014 > Liverpool Biennial. A Needle Walks into a Haystack curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman > Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau. Docking Station > Freymond-Guth Fine Arts Ltd., Zurich. Le Salon Particulier > Migros Museum, Zurich. Sacré 101 An Exhibition based on The Rite of Spring. Curated by Raphael Gygax 2013 > Centre Pompidou, Paris. Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain. Curated by Jonas Storsve > Les Abattoirs, Toulouse. Les Pléiades - 30 ans des Frac Public collections Musée Jenisch, Vevey - Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau - Museum Folkwang, Essen - Migros museum für gegenwartskunst - Zurich. Centre Pompidou - Musée d'art de Pully, Lausanne - Kunstmuseum St. Gallen - Kunstmuseum Solothurn - Kunsthaus Zürich - Sturzenegger Stiftung, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen - Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand - Frac Alsace, Sélestat Publications 2015 > The Bottom Line, catalogue. Published by S.M.A.K. Ghent > Drawing Now: 2015, catalogue. Published by Albertina Museum, Vienna > Triennial of contemporary prints, catalogue. Published by the Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle > Europa, die Zukunft der Geschichte, catalogue, Published by Kunsthaus Zurich > Meisterzeichnungen, 100 Jahre Grafische Sammlung, catalogue. Published by Kunsthaus Zurich 2014 > The Architect, artist book, designed by Vincent van der Marck. For the exhibition Cinerama in the Frac's Auvergne, Alsace and PACA. ISBN: 978-2-907672-17-7 2013 > The Collector, artist book, designed by Marie Lusa. For the exhibition Le Collectioneur at the CCS Paris. ISBN: 9782909230139 2012 > The Beirut Experience, catalogue. Published by attitudes, Geneva. ISBN: 9782940178193 Page 13
2011 > Le réel est inadmissible, d ailleurs il n existe pas, catalogue. Published by ESBA, Nantes > Marc Bauer, monographic catalogue, designed by Vincent van der Marck. Published by Kehrer Verlag and Kunstmuseum St.Gallen. ISBN: 9783868281606 2009 > STEEL, artist book, designed by Vincent van der Marck. Published by Frac Auvergne. ISBN: 9782907672078 2007 > History of masculinity, artist book, designed by Vincent van der Marck. Published by attitudes, Geneva. ISBN: 9782940178117 2005 > Documents, Marc Bauer: Tautology, writings. Published by Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam > Overthrowing the king in his own mind, catalogue. Published by Kunstmuseum Solothurn and Revolver Editions. ISBN: 9783865880598 2004 > Happier Healthier, artist book, designed by Vincent van der Marck. In cooperation with Store Gallery, London 2000 > Across the Great Channel, artist book. Published by Memory Cage editions, Zürich. ISBN: 3907053141 Projects 2015 > City hospital Triemli, Zurich. Wall drawings on concrete and editions for one of the floors Kaufleuten Restaurant, wall drawing on a 7 by 4 meter wall 2014-2015 >Wall drawings Der Sammler - Nachbilder. Museum Folkwang, Essen 2012-2014 > Tapestry in cooperation with Aubusson Tapestry Museum, Melancholia I. Musée de la tapisserie d Aubusson 2013 > Exhibition curated by and with interventions of Marc Bauer, La Révolte et L'Ennui. Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand > Animation film, The Architect. With Kafka Page 14
2012 > Künstlertragetasche for MIGROS Switzerland > Space intervention and exposition Der Sammler at Victoria bar, Berlin Awards 2012 > Shortlist Drawing prize Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Paris 2011 > Prize of the Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie et de l Art Tissé, Aubusson 2009 > Prix culturel Manor, Geneva 2006 > Swiss Art Awards, Basel 2005 > Swiss Art Awards, Basel 2002 > Festival Videoex, Zürich 2001 > Swiss Art Awards, Basel Residences 2006 > Bern Art Museum residency in Beijing 2005 > Swiss Institute, Rome Screenings 2014 > L'Architecte, ciné-concert with Kafka. Febuary, Opéra-Théâtre de Clermont-Ferrand 2013 > The Architect, ciné-concert with Kafka. June, Art Basel Parcour, Basel > The Architect, ciné-concert by Kafka. May, Migros Museum, Zurich > L'Architecte, ciné-concert by Kafka. January, Théâtre Sévelin 36, Lausanne Page 15
> L'Architecte, ciné-concert by Kafka. January, la Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand 2007 > Anteferno II, screenings curated by Renske Janssen and Nicolaus Schafhausen for the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007. Witte de With, Rotterdam 2006 > Anteferno I, II, III and Tautology. Da Sodoma a Hollywood Turin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Voice Over section, Torino Page 16
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The FRAC The FRACs were created 30 years ago to build up public collections of contemporary art and to support artistic creation. The Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d Azur, the only Frac of the new generation to be found in an urban hyper-center, has a new building of 5,400 m2 (of which 1000 m2 are dedicated to exhibitions). It also hosts all of the activities corresponding to its missions on the same site: acquisitions, diffusion and mediation. The Frac Provence-Alpes- Côte d Azur s collection includes 1,016 works by 440 international artists. The Fonds régional d art contemporain is financed by the Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d Azur and the Ministère de la Culture et de la communication / Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Provence-Alpes-Côte d Azur. It is a member of Platform, a collective of FRACs and is a founding member of the Marseille Expos network. Practical informations Frac Provence Alpes-Côte d Azur 20, bd de Dunkerque 13002 Marseille www.fracpaca.org t +33 (0)4 91 91 27 55 e acceuil@fracpaca.org Opening hours during the exhibitions Tuesday to Saturday from 12pm to 7pm Sundays from 2pm to 6pm (free entry) Closed on Mondays and national holiday Nocturnal showings monthly, free admittance on Fridays, from 6 pm to 9 pm. Groups welcome upon appointment from Tuesday to Saturday 12 to 7 pm: reservation@fracpaca.org www.fracpaca.org Price: Full price: 5 - Discount rate: 2.5 (terms verified on site) How to come to the Frac Metro and Tramway Joliette Bus lines 35 and 82: stop Joliette. Line 49: stop Frac Access: highway A55 The restaurant Taste welcomes you at the Frac for calm break. One lunch = a discount rate entry at the Frac. Tel: 06 28 04 91 38 Page 19