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Hugo Markl

Hugo Markl
Born (1964-12-06) 6 December 1964 (age 60)
Pasadena, California, US
Occupations
  • Contemporary artist
  • Curator
  • Creative editor
Children2
Websitehugomarkl.com

Hugo Markl (born December 6, 1964, in Pasadena, California) is a contemporary American artist, curator, and creative director. He studied Visual communication at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (1985–90), where he graduated with an M.A. in fine arts. His practice spans a broad range of media, including sculpture, photography, video, drawing, printmaking, installation art, and performance. Markl lives in New York City.

Work

"I imitate popular art that will not become popular art: this is how Hugo Markl has described his art, which uses the media imagery of consumer society, newspapers and porn websites, fashion magazines such as Vogue, logos of multinational corporations like FedEx, and even traffic signs, or objects charged with cultural and social connotations, such as the famous Winchester rifle. Markl deconstructs these symbols, or rather the relationship between the images and their referent, through collages, drawings, sculptures, and installations that create a typical estrangement effect, creating a vision that looks both familiar and unknown. The artist sometimes combines references to low or vulgar culture with highbrow culture, as in the case of the IQ drawing series (2009), where the sign 'ROCK' is overlaid on the naked body of a woman, as a homage to conceptual artist Dan Graham-or the sign 'IKEA' is silhouetted against the reproduction of a famous edition of Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, the Bible for critics of consumer society and mass culture.[1]

His work was reviewed by press outlets such as Art in America or the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. In his exhibition "Peter Builts" in 1997 at Galerie Walcheturm in Zurich, he explored the different facets of audio-visual impulses and how they influence contemporary body and mind. His work was compared to Richard Serra's minimal opulence as well as to Richard Prince's aesthetics, which cross the visual signs of everyday life with the insignia of art.[2] This intersection of everyday life, pop culture, criticism, and art is the base of his exploration of aesthetic experience and the meaning of artistic creation nowadays.

IQ, 2010

Exhibitions

Markl's installations and sculptures have been exhibited in some solo exhibitions and some group exhibitions worldwide.

Selected exhibitions and projects:

Solo exhibitions

  • 2014 - La Gioia, Maison Particulière - Art Center, Brussels
  • 2012 - DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, SSSSS, Berlin[3]
  • 2010 - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, "One day 1917, while his director was out sick with a hangover, John Ford made his first feature. ...", Zürich[4]
  • 2009 - AMP Gallery, DR FRANKENSTEIN, Athens
  • 2008 - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Link, Zürich
  • 2007 - Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, MAMATSCHI, Naples
  • 2003 - Gruppe Öesterreichische Guggenheim, PETER BUILTS OFFENE RECHNUNG, Vienna
JOIN, or DIE is a political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin and first published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. The original publication by the Gazette is the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by a British colonist in America. For comparison, both versions of JOIN, or DIE are shown here. Benjamin Franklin's original and Markl's updated version.
  • 1998 - Galerie am Andechshof, Hugo Markl & Paloma / Installativ und Konzert, Innsbruck
  • 1997 - Liste 97 the young art fair, Basel
  • 1996 - Austrian Institute, NOSTALHU, London
  • 1995 - ACME studios for the artists, superapologize 60 min., (major support by the Austrian institute, London), London
  • 1994 - Galerie Walcheturm, Hugo Markl, Gudrun Enslin, Zurich
  • 1992 - Galerie Walcheturm, Hugo Markl, Zurich
  • 1991 - Shedhalle, Manum de tabula, Zurich
  • 1987 - Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Kieltrunk, Vienna

Group exhibitions

  • 2016 - They printed it!, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
  • 2014 - La Gioia, Maison Particulière - Art Center, Brussels
  • 2012 - Un‘espressione geografica, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
  • 2010 | 2011 - PLUS ULTRA, Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection. Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
  • 2010 - Haus für Kunst Uri, Edition 5, Erstfeld, Switzerland
  • 2009 - Hamburger Bahnhof + Flick Collection, DIE KUNST IST SUPER!, Berlin
  • 2007 - Yvon Lambert Gallery, Mario Testino‚ At Home, New York
    - House Eva Presenhuber, Jubilee Exhibition, Vnà, Switzerland
    - Palais de Tokyo, The Third Mind, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Paris
  • 2005 - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, INTERSTATE, New York
  • 2003 - Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
    - Gruppe Öesterreichische Guggenheim, Kunstverein, GLÜHWEIN + KESCHTN – Lavuapappn, Vienna
  • 2000 - Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, The Oldest Possible Memory, Lokremise, St. Gallen
  • 1998 - Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, 20 Haus, Die Sammlung, Vienna
  • 1996 - Artothek im Parlamentsgebäude, Ausstellung 96, Vienna
    - Kunsthaus Zürich, Wunderkammer Öesterreich, Zurich
    - MAK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Austria im Rosennetz, Vienna
    - Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Coming up, Vienna
    - Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
  • 1995 - Fondazione Querini, Lokalzeit – Wiener Material im Spiegel des Unbehagens, (curator Peter Weibel), Venice
    - Karin Kilimnik, Galerie Walcheturm, window display by Hugo Markl, no face entertainment row, Zurich
    - ACME studios for the artists, superapologize 60 min., (major support by the Austrian institute, London), London
  • 1994 - Museum und Galerie Moderner Kunst Laibach, Lokalzeit – Wiener Material im Spiegel des Unbehagens, Laibach / SLO
    - Kunstraum Strohal, Lokalzeit – Wiener Material im Spiegel des Unbehagens, Vienna
    - Galerie im Taxispalais, Art Tirol, Innsbruck
  • 1993 - Centre d' Art Contemporain Martigny, Martigny
  • 1991 - Shedhalle, Manum de tabula, Zurich
  • 1990 - Group Show, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich
  • 1989 - Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, (curator Oswald Oberhuber), Vienna
  • 1988 - Galerie Grita Insam, Akte der Beschreibung, Vienna

Collections

Private collections

Public collections

References

  1. ^ Bonami, Francesco (2010). Plus Ultra. Venezia: Marsilio. p. 157. ISBN 9788831708890.
  2. ^ Juri Steiner (February 3, 1997), Idée fixe im Rosennetz, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  3. ^ "DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, SSSSS". Retrieved 2013-04-10.
  4. ^ "Galerie Eva Presenhuber". Archived from the original on 2013-03-15. Retrieved 2013-04-07.

Further reading

Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Markl