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Michael Bauer

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Selected Works by Michael Bauer

Michael Bauer Pol 1 (Smart Estrus) 2005 oil on canvas 140 x 120 cm	Click on image to enlarge
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
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

Michael Bauer L.O.R.D.S. 3000 2006 oil on canvas 190 x 210 cm

Michael Bauer Dixie Supreme 2005 oil on canvas 150 x 130 cm

Michael Bauer Bad Harvest 2008 Oil on canvas 160 x 130 cm

Michael Bauer Freund 2 - English 2008 Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cms

Michael Bauer Freund 1 - Deutsch 2008 Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cms