Back to Galleries Keep updated with the hazardous enterprises and endeavours of our friend Marcus the Artiste! This is where to look for the latest of the lamest. Be good.../BigGuyO 9th of September - Marcus and Valeria in the free press Valeria and I are featured in the online art magazine konsten. Check it out here at: Article @ www.konsten.net also check out a short piece about us in Allt om Stockholm: Article @ www.alltomstockholm.se here is a piece about me and 2 other artists in Stockholms fria tidning: Article @ www.stockholmsfria.nu 9th of September - La Tierra Salvaje: exhibition in Botkyrka, December-March La Tierra Salvaje - Valeria Montti Colque, Marcus Mårtenson and Dilomprizulike. Botkyrka konsthall, December 13 - March 14 2009. At the end of 2008, artists Valeria Montti Colque, Marcus Mårtenson and Dilomprizulike will meet in Botkyrka konsthall. Valeria and Marcus are working in different ways with gathered material and objects that have been forgotten or thrown away. By reshaping these objects different figures and forms appear. They become sculptures, installations and parts of performances. In Valeria and Marcus' art the thrown-away objects are charged with new meanings. The Nigeran artist Dilomprizulike has been called "the Junkman of Africa". He as well works with material found on the street, and mostly with old clothing and fabrics. 2006 he participated in the Moderna Museet exhibition Africa Remix with the art piece Waiting for Bus, an installation made of found articles where the composite figures look like they are trapped in the middle of their own culture and an imposed Western civilisation. By bringing these artists together in a collaborative project in Botkyrka konsthall we want to discuss issues of abundance, recycling, the importance of symbols, mysticism and environment. How will the work and the exhibition be affected by Sweden and Nigeria's different prerequisites? This is also an exhibition project that engages you as a visitor with the invitation to submit material; furniture, clothing or other objects that you were planning to throw. In our exhibition they can get new, undreamed-of meanings! 9th of September - Elevator installation featured in Svenska Dagbladet A picture of my new elevator installation at Hammarby Artport was published today in the culture section of Svenska Dagbladet. Check it out! (click picture for bigger version): 5th of September - Permanent installation in Hammarby Artport, Stockholm Opening friday September 5th, 2008: Marcus has created an all new permanent elevator installation at Hammarby Artport located at Virkesvägen 24 in Stockholm. Check out their website for more info: www.hammarbyartport.se 16th of August - Installation at Sergels torg, Culture festival, Stockholm Marcus and Valeria will build a huge installation made out of found object on Sergels Torg during the Stockholm culture festival between the 12th and 16th of august 2008. Stadens skräp utgör en väsentlig del av stadslivet. "The junk" speglar vår ohyggliga förmåga att glömma saker vi dagligen producerar. Plocka med dig en del av din dagliga produktion och låt konstnärerna i Tranzformers ge dem kärlek och respekt så som de förtjänar. De återuppstår inte bara, de får ett liv, ett nytt liv och förskönas. Dag för dag växer konstverket med stockholmssopor fram. Varje dag mellan 12-15 kan publiken lämna in det dom inte vill ha till konstnärerna som tar hand om det dag för dag. När man lämnar in får man berätta kort om var det kommer ifrån och vad saken betyder för den som lämnar. Samtalet videoflmas och kommer att ingå i en utställning på Botkyrka konsthall som görs i samarbete med afrikanska konstnären Dilomprizulike. Deras projekt handlar alltså om ett återskapande mer än ett återförande: det handlar om att vi bör återta de föremål som vi alltför snabbt slängt ut. Detta projekt blir interaktivt på så sätt att det innehåller två inslag som följer på varandra vid tröskeln till staden. Först och främst en "skräpinsamling" som handlar om att en nästan helig föreställning vid en viss tidpunkt då alla bjuds in att komma med de objekt de tröttnat på och tänkt slänga. Men nu handlar det om att dessa objekt, istället för att normalt bli slängda och ge plats för annat, får ett nytt liv i form av konst. Nästa inslag handlar om att stadens invånare återkommer för att titta på vad som hänt med deras föremål. Här kommer vi att se, som en paradox, hur de söker efter spår av det som de ville bli kvitt, som de nyligen slängt. Allt detta låter oss under en festival reflektera över vad en stad egentligen är, hur den har blivit en jättelik producent av allt slags avfall och på så sätt även en fabrik för det glömda och det likgiltiga. För dessa tre konstnärer från Europa och Afrika handlar det om en utmaning att försköna det ordinära som uppfattas som fult, att skapa något väsentligt av det oväsentliga. VERNISSAGE - Lördagen den 16:e Aug kl.14.00-15.00 Konstnärer: Valeria Montti Colque & Marcus Mårtenson Scen/Scene: Sergels torg: Brunkebergsporten Tema/Theme: Sergels torg 31st of May - MM was in the papers Marcus and Valeria showed the installation "Mono City" at the French Institute. Read all about it here: Article about Marcus and Valeria in DN 10th of May - MM is in the lottery Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening (SAK) has acquired one of Marcus collages and it is now part of their 2007 lottery. Check it out here: www.konstforeningen.com/html/vinster/2007/vinster26.htm 23rd of April - MM in RAW VISION art magazine This is taken from issue 56 of RAW VISION art magazine, from a review of the Internal Guidance Systems show that I am in from Portland Oregon: "RAW VISON MAGAZINE REVIEW ISSUE .. 56 Internal Guidance Systems- Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, Oregon May 2006 By turns exuberant and disturbing,the many faces peering from resurrected trash attest to the power of raw emotion when filtered through the imagination. Curated by painter Anne Grgich of Seattle, Washington and British author and art historian Colin Rhodes, Internal Guidance Systems (IGS) draws together visionary artists who share a self-propelled, inner imperative to fashion their own worlds. Grgich has gathered work that demonstrates a highly idiosyncratic approach to making wondrous things from mundane materials. Each artist expresses either unabashed outrage at the state of the world or celebrates its magic, as do the talisman-like bottle cap snakes of Mr. Imagination. Both commentary and prophecy leap from an assemblage of paintings on scrap wood by Swedish artist, Marcus Mårtenson, whose deceptively simple imagery conveys a disturbing glimpse of America as seen by an outsider:near a bucolic scene of horses in a meadow, an arched panel with a man wearing a turban and camouflage holds an automatic weapon, the wood riddled with holes. Innocence and menace also reside uncomfortably close to one another in the textile works by British artist Delaine Le Bas. Below a skeleton standing on the edge of a pastoral scene complete with pastel rabbit,and glittering sequins, polka dot fawns leap across a field of blue cloth near floating skulls, and disembodied faces, hinting at dangers lurking beneath placid surfaces. Equally taut with tension are the child-like figures surrounded by cryptic marks, their wide eyes wrought with fevered energy painted on rough wood by Salt Lake City artist Lyle Carbajal. Paintings on fabric by Washington state artist Paul Gasoi vibrate with electrical intensity. Heavy black lines and vibrant colors form intricate patterns that enclose, frame or form human and animal faces with sombre or perplexed expressions. Obsessively tidy, repetitive mandala-like patterns of faces and erotic images are drawn with ink on layers of tissue by Pennsylvanian artist Houston Ripley. Arts redemptive power is evident in this show currently touring the United States. By Eliza Murphy, Portland, Oregon." 12th of April - Installation in Carin Westers new store Marcus has created an installation together with Valeria Montti Colque for Carin Westers new store located at Rörstrandsgatan 40. It will hang there until June so go check it out. Read more about it here: Artikel i DN 22nd of January - Group show opening in Nashville Febuary 3rd The group show tour that Im in continues, this time at the TAG art gallery in Nashville, Tenessee INTERNAL GUIDANCE SYSTEMS 2006-2008 USA VISIONARY ART TOUR A critical cross section from the vanguard of a new modern movement in visionary art Curated by Anne Grgich Reception .. February 3rd, 6 to 9 pm. The show goes until Febuary 24th TAG art gallery is located in beautiful downtown Nashville at 237 5th Ave. 21th of November - Installation at Urban Outfitters in Stockholm Marcus is showing an installation at Urban Outfitters new store in Stockholm! Just go to the old movie theater Röda Kvarn on Birger Jarlsgatan and you wont be able to miss it! The art will be there on the second floor from November the 22 and one month onwards. 7th of November - Vernissage på Riche med Marcus Mårtenson och Valeria Montti Colque Valeria Montti-Colque och Marcus Mårtenson samarbetar i performancekonstgruppen ”The Tranzformers”. De har under en längre tid iscensatt performances på olika orter i Stockholm. Nu samarbetar de i utställningen ”Machete Miau” som visas på Riche 7.11 - 5.12 2006. Vernissage tisdagen den 7november kl 18.00. Båda konstnärerna är samlare av bortlagda och slängda objekt. Med hjälp av sådana föremål har de skapat ett träd och ett kors. Dessa har sedan fyllts med ting som varit döda men som nu har kommit tillbaka, omgjorda och med nyttliv. Med influenser av bl.a. kristna ikoner, vodoo, barbiedockor och robotar vill konstnärerna skapa ett alternativt rum i form av en futuristisk kyrka. Utställningen innehåller dessutom videoprojektionen ”City of Smoke” av Tomas Forsberg, Per Sandborg. och Jimmy Östberg. www.myspace.com/thetranzformers 26th of September 2006 - Gallery show opening in Minneapolis! Hey Im showing my art at the “Outsiders and others” art gallery in Minneapolis. This will be a part of the Internal Guidance Systems group show and will be opening on October 6th. The show will run until December 2nd. The opening is on the 6th of october at 7 till 10 pm. Otherwise the opening times are wednesday-saturday, noon-six pm. The address is 3045 Hennepin ave. Minneapolis, MN. If you know someone in the area tell em I sent ya! 16th of June 2006 - Marcus at IGS in Albuquerque! Internal Guidance Systems, a critical cross section from the vanguard of a new modern movement in visionary art, opens Friday, June 16, at N4th Gallery, 4904 Fourth St. NW in Albuquerque. The public is invited to a reception on June 16, from 5pm7pm. N4th Gallery is the second stop of this international touring exhibit, hosted by galleries from Portland to Nashville to Paris and many more venues in the US and abroad. The exhibit is at N4th Gallery through July 22. Internal Guidance Systems features work by US artists such as Gregory Warack a.k.a. Mr. Imagination and Cynthia Lund Torroll; Ody Saban from France, UK artists Delaine Lebas and Damian Lebas, Marcus Martenson of Sweden, Damian Michaels from Austalia and many more. Internal Guidance Systems presents the best of that art which lives at the heart of our lives and yet, curiously comes out of the margins, writes Colin Rhodes. Rhodes and Anne Marie Grgich are co-curators of the show. For more information, call N4th Gallery Director May Hussain (505) 345-2872 ext. 18.