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An example of work by Javier Marchan
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| The following, submitted October 2004, is from the artist and from an associate, Andreas Fruchtl.
Javier Marchan was born in Barcelona in 1967. He studied fine art and
contemporary critical theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His career as a visual artist was launched in 1996 with a museum exhibition that opened at the Tate Liverpool, part of the New Contemporaries 96. The show followed to Candem Arts Center later the same year.
His artworks are fictional, delicate, and elusive, asking the viewer to look further than their own materiality for their meaning. Sometimes a product of solitude, sometimes a product of impressive multiple collaborations; his practice employs a visual language that is unmistakably its own at the crossroads of philosophy, media and science.
Marchan's works have their origin in the creative tension between the objective world of surfaces and the inner workings of one's always drifting consciousness. He favours a visual practice where the representative nature of meaning bounding together what we call 'reality' gets emptied out momentarily. This methodology is done in order to get a more profound relation to art and to the perception of
reality.
Marchan has been in the USA in extended periods of research beginning 1993 and were part of fellowships from European institutions - for instance, Jan van Eyck
Academie, The Netherlands, Goldsmiths University, UK. His next residency in the United States is scheduled for the second half of 2006 at MAK Center of Art &
Architecture, Los Angeles where the artist will be working on an art commission for this museum.
MUSEUMS
MAK - Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Wien / MAK Center for
Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Nigel Moores Family Charitable Foundation, UK
PERIODICALS
BALDER MAGAZINE - November- December 2004, 'Alma Mater, Javier Marchan's
New Visual Offerings' Text: Maria Magdalena page 76
GOD - Panorama - 6 August 2004, Javier Marchan Visual Study of Aesthetics,
page 8
WOHNEN - 4 October 2004 'Art and Play' Ohne offizielle Eroffnung bewegt sich zwisches Experiment und Kulturhighlight. Text: Barbara Jahn, fotos MAK-Javier Marchan
KURIER AUSTRIAN NEWSPAPER - 3 July 2004, 'Asthetik spielerisch erfassen'
Text: Henriette Horny, page 25.
KURIER AUSTRIAN NEWSPAPER - 6 July 2004, 'Schau mit legaler Schmuggelware'
MAK: Javier Marchans 'SoftSoftSoft' als Schau-Spiel. Text Henriette Horny,
page 30
KRONE NEWSPAPER 20 July 2004, 'Detective's Game in a Museum - MAK 'SoftSoftSoft' by Javier Marchan', Text Molin page 19
WIRTSCHAFTS BLATT 30 June 2004, 'Die Welt der Dinger - SoftSoftSoft im
MAK', Text Yasmin El-Mohandes, page 17
AB - BARCELONA March 2002 'Javier Marchan - Head Over Heels'. Text: Elena
Cabrera page 40
ROOM - IKEA INTERNATIONAL - June 2001, 'An Enfant Terrible Visual Artist'
Javier Marchan a new mixed-media iconoclast' Text: Gianmarco
FLASH ART INTERNATIONAL - October 2000, 'Life's a Mess' Text: Cedar
Lewishon, Vol. XXXIII number magazine 214 page 93
TIME OUT November 1997, 'Javier Marchan- Upcoming' Text: Martin Herbert,
page 59
HIGHBURY & ISLINGTON EXPRESS - 21 November 1997 'Javier Marchan - El Greco
meets 101 Dalmatians' Text Morgan Falconer page 30
WELL MAGAZINE, November 1997, 'Javier Marchan's NOSUB-Stance at Andrew
Mummery Gallery' Text Mark Cooper, page 14
HOT TICKETS November 1997, Galleries Choice 'Javier Marchan at 33 Great
Sutton Street' Text: Kate Bernard page 45
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 24 July 1996 'Wecome Blast of Earnest Whimsy' Text:
Richard Dorment page 19
THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER 10 April 1996 'Searching for Ourselves' Text:
Adrian Searle page 25
TIME OUT Art Preview 'No more heroes?' Sarah Kent on the New Contempories
Text: Sarah Kent page 46
EXHIBITIONS
Javier Marchan SoftSoftSoft - Study of Aesthetics (Solo show) MAK-
Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien / MAK Center for Art and
Architecture, Los Angeles 2004
Javier Marchan SoftSoftSoft (Solo Show) Canberra Contemporary Art Space,
Australia 2004
Javier Marchan SoftSoftSoft (Solo Show) Victoria Open Art Space, Victoria Canada, 2004
Javier Marchan 'The Wig that Warhol Wore' (solo show) TATE MODERN, UK 2001
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