PAST EXHIBITION
Marcus Antonius Jansen - Art/Chitecture
June 28, 2008—July 28, 2008
Press Release
Marcus Antonius Jansen, a native of New York and world traveler depicts his art with an urban sophistication like no other painter to date.
His work shows a raw style, using large brush strokes that sweap canvases with incomparable expressionion and detail, perhaps the trademark characteristics for an Expressionist. This painter however is not from the early 1900’s. Jansen is a Contemporary painter that was born 1968 during political, social and economic changes.
Raised between the Bronx NY and Germany Europe, the artist uses his various cultural influences to discover new forms of cutting-edge Expressionism. He deems it “Modern” Urban-Expressionism. Jansen has been a worldtraveler since the age of one year old. He managed to transform his life from a Soldier at War to a professional painter after his return from the Gulf War I in 1991.
He deploys new ideas,shapes and forms and seeks to opt the figurative in his work. Jansen, crosses old and modern techniques that include spatular use and graffiti tags to convey his subject. His commentary is direct and seems to center around an ongoing cultural and political battleground while using the urban innercities as his actor scene, stage and script.
Today after over two decades of work, Jansen is a multiple Biennial winner and showing in over 20 solo exhibitions and over 30 group shows throughout his career spanning Germany, Swizerland, France, Italy, UK, Russia,Taiwan and beyond. His works can be found in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art collection to name a few.
Several books documenting his work have been published including Modern Urban-Expressionism, The Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen, which includes a foreword by renowned Art Director and former Curator Professor Jerome A. Donson, who curated various international exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and who worked with names such as Rauschenberg, De Kooning, Pollock, Kline and others in the 1960’s.
His work will move you and encourage you to explore the dichotomy of your own life. |
