Marc Brandenburg discussion

Marc Brandenburg discussion

Saturday 2 April, 2pm
Adam Art Gallery

Please join us as Berlin-based artist Marc Brandenburg introduces his practice in conversation with Adam Art Gallery Curator Stephen Cleland. Brandenburg's work is included in the exhibition Linie Line Linea: Contemporary Drawing, currently on show at the Gallery.

In his practice, Brandenburg draws from a range of self-generated and readymade photographic sources which often reference fashion and youth subculture. He then collates a multitude of these images and precisely reproduces them in both positive and negative form by hand, resulting in expansive yet intimate drawn collages. Despite the labour involved in making his work, Brandenburg doesn't overstate the craft of his drawing procedures when describing his practice. Instead, he states, 'I regard the element of technique in my work coldly, as a tool. I see myself as a part of a gigantic image machine; I do my job. In the truest sense of the word, I work through the images that bombard me, the things I see or have to see.'

His recent solo exhibitions include Zeichnung | Skulptur | Performance, Marc Brandenburg, Kunsthaus, Museen Stade, Stade; Interior/ Exterior, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris and Marc Brandenburg - Zeichnung, Hamburger Kunsthalle and Mont Blanc Staircase Gallery, Hamburg. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions globally including The Paths of German Art from 1949 to the Present, MMOMA, Moscow Museum of Modern Art and The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing, an exhibition which toured to Hayward Gallery, London; MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough; The Bluecoat, Liverpool; City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol and The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. Brandenburg's artist's residency in Wellington is supported The Goethe-Institut in co-operation with Wellington City Council.

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