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 drakes

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 scholarships and art awards, including from the city of Bonn. For years he has exhibited his works at the major national art fairs (including art Karlsruhe, ART COLOGNE, ART.FAIR Cologne), but also internationally (including ART FLORIDA, ART Breda/NL, ART FAIR Brussels).

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

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

Generously applied layers in which colours change from layer to layer, run into and over each other, become denser or are removed and wiped away. In never-ending movements, the medium of painting is pushed forward excessively and its possibilities and limits are explored again and again.

Marius Singer's genuinely spontaneous painting style is motivically free and yet formally structured. His paintings suggest landscapes and yet remain far removed from concrete themes and motifs. His sometimes austere, vertically or horizontally arranged compositions show rhythmically arranged lines that form opaque and glaze-like colour fields. Both cold and warm colours can dominate or an alternation of these spectra and contrasts can take place. In particular, the translucent blurring of surfaces caused by the peeling away of older layers of paint often gives the impression of light refractions and reflections, revealing glimpses of underlying layers of paint. Associations of wide horizons and water surfaces are evoked and once again show the uniqueness that characterises Marius Singer's painting: Colour and light produce such a differentiated interplay that surface and space as well as proximity and distance - despite all abstraction - can be imagined.

In his most recent works, Marius Singer applies the colours with a palette knife in countless, fine hatchings on the diverse layers of paint underneath. This special technique creates blurred blurs that are reminiscent of photographic motifs in which moments of movement are captured with longer exposure times. 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 ever-evolving painting technique, Marius Singer causes the surface of the paint to break through in a way 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 barton newspaper magazine)