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1967 Esch, Luxembourg - 2002 Niederanven. Known for: Painting.
The Luxembourgian artist, Michel Majerus works with quotes and cross-references to the media world and mass culture of the 1990s and relates them to motifs from art history. He uses various... Read full biography
The Luxembourgian artist, Michel Majerus works with quotes and cross-references to the media world and mass culture of the 1990s and relates them to motifs from art history. He uses various techniques for this which are linked together in his large installations and wall paintings producing a... Read full biography
The Luxembourgian artist, Michel Majerus works with quotes and cross-references to the media world and mass culture of the 1990s and relates them to motifs from art history. He uses various techniques for this which are linked together in his large installations and wall paintings producing a mutual effect. ''Throughout his work he subordinates form and color to a global idea of the contemporary, based on a Pop-influenced - and therefore ambiguous - idea of a dual dominance of the computer... Read full biography
The Luxembourgian artist, Michel Majerus works with quotes and cross-references to the media world and mass culture of the 1990s and relates them to motifs from art history. He uses various techniques for this which are linked together in his large installations and wall paintings producing a mutual effect. ''Throughout his work he subordinates form and color to a global idea of the contemporary, based on a Pop-influenced - and therefore ambiguous - idea of a dual dominance of the computer monitor and commercial capitalism. This fundamental ambivalence in Majerus' painting is based on his ability to admire the signs of commercial rhetoric and the visual flotsam of the packaging industry, tempered by his belief in the power of art and its... Read full biography
The Luxembourgian artist, Michel Majerus works with quotes and cross-references to the media world and mass culture of the 1990s and relates them to motifs from art history. He uses various techniques for this which are linked together in his large installations and wall paintings producing a mutual effect. ''Throughout his work he subordinates form and color to a global idea of the contemporary, based on a Pop-influenced - and therefore ambiguous - idea of a dual dominance of the computer monitor and commercial capitalism. This fundamental ambivalence in Majerus' painting is based on his ability to admire the signs of commercial rhetoric and the visual flotsam of the packaging industry, tempered by his belief in the power of art and its ability to open the public's eyes with respect to a toxic environment in which we move. Romance and irony touch and... Read full biography
