Marcus Jansen: Decade - Hardcover

Steve Lazarides; Noah Becker

 
9788857230573: Marcus Jansen: Decade
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 8857230570 ISBN 13: 9788857230573
Publisher: Skira Editore, 2016

Synopsis

“Marcus Jansen produces violently exquisite landscapes, haunting combines, and disturbing portraiture, whose originality and powerful social critique rival the aesthetic mastery and intellectual engagement of the greatest artists of the 20th century”, writes Art FUSE, New York. Marcus Jansen (b. 1968) is a cartographer of conflict. He has been called a pioneer in redefining urban landscape painting for the last two decades. A former soldier and world traveler since the age of one year old, Jansen is the son of a German businessman and Westindien mother who was first influenced by an emerging and rebellious Graffiti art movement from his home town New York City in 1982. Jansen transforms landscapes into critical social commentary in an era of globalization and a growing new world order while exploring the human condition often working paradoxes and drawing parallels between historic and contemporary events and references. Discovered and mentored by former Museum Director and historian Jerome A. Donson (Director of the American Vanguard Exhibitions Europe 1961), who was in charge of traveling exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, (MOMA), New York and responsible for preparing exhibitions for artists like Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Donson referred to Jansen’s work as being “reminiscent of the Ash-Can School” and referred to him as “the innovator of Modern Expressionism”, in Jansen’s French published catalogue in 2005 a decade ago.

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About the Author

Steve Lazarides is an English art gallery owner best known for his role as agent for the graffiti artist Banksy. He is noted as one of the first figures to help popularize street art and as an authority on the latest trends in underground art.

From the Back Cover

“Marcus Jansen produces violently exquisite landscapes, haunting combines, and disturbing portraiture, whose originality and powerful social critique rival the aesthetic mastery and intellectual engagement of the greatest artists of the 20th century”, writes Art FUSE, New York. Marcus Jansen (b. 1968) is a cartographer of conflict. He has been called a pioneer in redefining urban landscape painting for the last two decades. A former soldier and world traveler since the age of one year old, Jansen is the son of a German businessman and Westindien mother who was first influenced by an emerging and rebellious Graffiti art movement from his home town New York City in 1982. Jansen transforms landscapes into critical social commentary in an era of globalization and a growing new world order while exploring the human condition often working paradoxes and drawing parallels between historic and contemporary events and references. Discovered and mentored by former Museum Director and historian Jerome A. Donson (Director of the American Vanguard Exhibitions Europe 1961), who was in charge of traveling exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, (MOMA), New York and responsible for preparing exhibitions for artists like Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Donson referred to Jansen’s work as being “reminiscent of the Ash-Can School” and referred to him as “the innovator of Modern Expressionism”, in Jansen’s French published catalogue in 2005 a decade ago.

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Publisher
Skira Editore
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8857230570
ISBN 13 
9788857230573
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
176