Meeting Point- Marc Bauer

APT artist Marc Bauer is participating the exhibition "Meeting Point", he will install a large wall drawing "Dawn".
Marc Bauer draws stories. He reflects on cities and their related stories. In his large-format pencil drawings he makes history visible for a short time - until they are glossed over at the end of the exhibition with white wall paint. As a theme for> dawn <he has the sanatorium Bellevue elected in Kreuzlingen, a psychiatric medical and research institution, which in its time (1857-1980) was a refuge point for the sick and help-seekers from around the world. The clientele came from the nobility and the upper middle class, also artists, philosophers and scientists were among them (including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Aby Warburg). The Bellevue has been not only a place of healing, but also a place of culture and creative confrontation.

"Meeting Point" is an exhibition on the occasion of the Jubilee Council, with wich the Kunstverein Konstanz recalls in cooperation with the Kunstraum Kreuzlingen at an important meeting of the Middle Ages: the Council of Konstance, a highly significant event of the late Middle Ages, which lasted 1414-1418.

From the turbulent history of the Council of Constance itself topics arise as Religion & Tolerance , meeting & Communication, Hospitality & cultural diversity 'and - especially in the year of Jan Hus Justice & reliability issues that make it clear how this very medieval church event projects in our present and thus serving as a reference point of contemporary art.

Just as towards the early 15th century council delegates from different directions to Konstanz, national and international artists have come at the invitation of the Kunstverein Konstanz in the city. Locally and for the place of their choice, they developed their exhibition contributions in different media (drawing, sculpture, photography, video and installation)

In the numerous exhibition stations in urban indoor and outdoor space in Konstanz and Kreuzlingen recalls "Meeting Point" not only to the Council: Clearly, the presence of the negotiated there (ecclesiastical) political issues and the basic problems of human coexistence - unresolved even 600 years later.

So an anatomically realistic heart is installed for example in the Silvesterkapelle the Minster, which was milled in remembrance of the Czech reformer of 600 year old wood (Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson). Colorful flags fluttering from the Rhine bridge, establish new, unnamed affiliations and are not even as symbols of origin or nation (Gili Avissar). A light installation in Münster near transmits light and enlightenment in the world (Alexej Meschtschanow). In the Tiroler Stube, from scrap cobbled together and forced into the passage to Kunstvereinshof, exhibition visitors can enjoy a complimentary (emergency) accommodation for one night find (Hannes Egger). The abandoned home of an Allgäu-cult movement in Kreuzlinger Kunstraum documented religious fanaticism and provides, as well as a video work showing a mysterious, eschatological colony in a forest, the question of toleration and tolerance (Alexandra Vogt). A bronze figure, the historical figure Hus tracking them, throwing in a dark room shade. At the same time a wax figure invites the viewer to change the light, fast deformable material by hand (Markus Daum)

Artists:

Gili Avissar (Haifa / Tel Aviv)

Marc Bauer (Genf / Berlin)

Daniel Gustav Cramer & Haris Epaminonda (Neuss \ Nikosia / Berlin)

Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson (Barnsley \ Macclesfield / Manchester \ Berlin)

Markus Daum (Säckingen / Radolfzell)

Hannes Egger (Lana)

Amit Goffer (Tel Aviv / Düsseldorf)

Leah Gordon (Ellesmere Port / London)

Siggi Hofer (Bruneck / Wien(

Azade Köker (Istanbul / Istanbul \ Berlin(

Alexej Meschtschanow (Kiew / Berlin(

Eriz Moreno Aranguren (Bilbao / Leipzig(

Marlies Pekarek (Bern / St. Gallen)

Alexandra Vogt (Mussenhausen / Kammlach)
 

More about the artists and works:

http://meetingpoint-2015.eu/#3-marc-bauer