Vorsicht, Dramatischer Inhalt Attention, Contenu Dramatique Caution, Dramatic Content
Smallville•Oct 25, 2024 — Nov 30, 2024
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Markus Schneider, Marcus Schneider, Markus Jura Suisse or simply Markus. For some, these names will bring back memories of a rough, scruffy man: an artist in rupture who chose a life without fixed abode or comforts. Today, the reputation of the graphic designer from Basel continues to precede him. “He regularly had outbursts of anger,” confesses one. “An outrageous character”, we hear somewhere else… “The face of the Christ!” says a woman in awe, in Edgar Hagen’s documentary on this ‘prodigal son’.
But what do we know about the works, words and gestures prior to his nomadic period? – What have we learned about the man? His radical strangeness? Perhaps his ruggedness, or the fascination – sometimes marked with disgust or mockery – that Markus provoked in others. He also drew some of his own wrath.
In 1979, for instance, Markus was invited to join the first collective sculpture exhibition at the castle of Porrentruy (CH). He placed a rusty metal sheet in the castle...More
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Vorsicht, Dramatischer Inhalt Attention, Contenu Dramatique Caution, Dramatic Content
Smallville•Oct 25, 2024 — Nov 30, 2024
Press Release
Markus Schneider, Marcus Schneider, Markus Jura Suisse or simply Markus. For some, these names will bring back memories of a rough, scruffy man: an artist in rupture who chose a life without fixed abode or comforts. Today, the reputation of the graphic designer from Basel continues to precede him. “He regularly had outbursts of anger,” confesses one. “An outrageous character”, we hear somewhere else… “The face of the Christ!” says a woman in awe, in Edgar Hagen’s documentary on this ‘prodigal son’.
But what do we know about the works, words and gestures prior to his nomadic period? – What have we learned about the man? His radical strangeness? Perhaps his ruggedness, or the fascination – sometimes marked with disgust or mockery – that Markus provoked in others. He also drew some of his own wrath.
In 1979, for instance, Markus was invited to join the first collective sculpture exhibition at the castle of Porrentruy (CH). He placed a rusty metal sheet in the castle...More
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