Marius Singer

(* 1959 Bergisch Gladbach)
1980 A-levels, Cologne
1981 – 1986 Studied free art at the University of Applied Sciences for Art and Design, Cologne
1987 Study visits to Italy, France, Australia and South Africa
in drake

Preise und Stipendien (Auswahl)

1995 "Stipendium Sponsorpartners Sparte Bildende Kunst", Bonn, Germany
1995 "1. Preis Förderverein für Bildende Künstler", Köln, Germany
1994 "Stipendium Sponsorpartners Sparte Bildende Kunst", Bonn, Germany
1992 "Kunstpreis für Malerei des Rheinisch-Bergischen Kreises", Rheinisch-Bergischen Kreises, Germany
1992 "Förderpreis Citroen", Germany
1991 "Kunststipendium der Stadt Bonn", Bonn, Germany
1984 "Stipendium des Theaterfestivals Melbourne", Melbourne

Marius Singer has received various grants and art prizes, including from the city of Bonn. He has been exhibiting his works at the major national art fairs (including art Karlsruhe, ART COLOGNE, ART.FAIR Cologne) and internationally (including ART FLORIDA, ART Breda/NL, ART FAIR Brussels) for many years.

His works are represented worldwide in important public museums (e.g. Melbourne Museum, Museo National Valencia, Museum van Bommel an Dam Venlo/NL), as well as in private collections (e.g. New York, Paris, Cape Town, Amsterdam, Berlin).

Marius Singer's abstract painting is the result of a continuous process that is equally characterised by growth and decay, impulsiveness and contemplation:

Generously applied layers in which colours change from level to level, run into and over each other, condense or are removed and wiped off. In never-ending movements, the medium of painting is pushed forward excessively and its possibilities and limits are constantly explored anew.

Marius Singer's genuinely spontaneous painting style is motivically free and yet formally structured. His pictures suggest landscapes and yet remain far removed from concrete themes and motifs. His sometimes strict, vertical or horizontal compositions show rhythmically arranged lines that form opaque and glaze-like fields of colour. Both cold and warm colours can dominate or alternate between these spectra and contrasts. In particular, the translucent blurred surfaces caused by the removal of older layers of colour often give the impression of refractions and reflections, revealing the layers of colour underneath. Associations of wide horizons and water surfaces are evoked and once again demonstrate the uniqueness that characterises Marius Singer's painting: Colour and light create such a differentiated interplay that surface and space as well as proximity and distance can be imagined - despite all the abstraction.

In his most recent works, Marius Singer applies the colours with a palette knife in countless fine hatchings onto the many layers of paint underneath. This special technique creates blurred blurs that are reminiscent of photographic motifs in which moments of movement are captured with a longer exposure time. In combination with the dense and diaphanous image sequences, these shimmering linear structures appear dynamically moving and vibrating in a special way. With this virtuoso shaping of his constantly evolving painting technique, Marius Singer creates a disruption of the colour surface that resembles that of light. In the constant alternation of reflection and absorption, he opens up the entire spectrum of colours and in this way unfolds a boundless world of associations. (Text: Alexandra Wendorf, editor-in-chief of barton newspaper magazine)