SELECTED WORKS BY Michael Bauer
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Michael Bauer
Pol 1 (Smart Estrus)
2005
oil on canvas
140 x 120 cm |
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Reminiscent of the bizarre anthropomorphic portraits of 16th century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Michael Bauer’s work creates figurative composites from abstraction and design. In Pol 1 (Smart Estrus), a male profile appears as a grotesque and distorted conglomeration of doodled elements. Grey and muddy forms entangle as abject viscera: lumpy scar tissue, withering penises, and slithery dead matter converge as psychological landscape, and forlorn memento mori. Framed by a decorative vignette, Bauer balances the obscene with the precious, creating a fragile seduction within his barbarous image. Subtitled Smart Estrus, Bauer's painting suggests lurid plots of patriarchal power and noble lineage. |
Michael Bauer
Pol 4 (Senor Mousse)
2005
oil on canvas
140 x 120 cm |
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Michael Bauer offers deformity as a platform for unequivocal beauty. In Pol 4 (Senor Mousse), Bauer uses the qualities of abstract painting as a deviation of representational portraiture, allowing the media to replicate the characteristics of physical matter. Traces of recognisable features, such as eyes and hands give uneasy relation to celiac smears, scabby encrustations, and fluid brush marks, each rendered with a pristine delicacy. Offset by harlequin ornamentation and elegant touches of primavera colour, Bauer’s reductive palette creates an antiquarian reverence, setting his absurd conception as an icon of protracted contemplation. |
Michael Bauer
L.O.R.D.S. 4000
2006
oil on canvas
190 x 210 cm |
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Michael Bauer
L.O.R.D.S. 3000
2006
oil on canvas
190 x 210 cm |
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Michael Bauer
Dixie Supreme
2005
oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm |
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Michael Bauer
Bad Harvest
2008
Oil on canvas
160 x 130 cm |
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Michael Bauer
Freund 2 - English
2008
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cms |
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Michael Bauer
Freund 1 - Deutsch
2008
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cms |
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ARTIST INFORMATION
Michael Bauer's BIOGRAPHY
1973
Born, Erkelenz, Germany
Lives and works in Cologne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
The Winnipeg Whore, HOTEL, London
2005
DAS KABINETT, Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Köln
2004
Die Töne meiner Flöte, Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Cologne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (with Lutz Braun, Jan Koch, Susa Reinhardt, Stefan Rinck, Astrid Sourkova)
2004
Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
Screamers, Brotherslasher Cologne
Whiteboy, Autocenter Berlin
Ganz oben, Brotherslasher Cologne
2003
Keiner ist besser oder eventuell besser, Brotherslasher Köln
2002
Das Leben ist ein Albtraum.., Galerie Nomadenoase Hamburg
Brotherslasher, with Tim Berresheim und Jonathan Meese, Brotherslasher Cologne
2001
When we were kings, Kunstverein Heinsberg
SUPERSCHLOSS, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg
2000
Make my paper sound Klasse Walther Dahn, Kunstverein Braunschweig
1999
Junger Westen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
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