Michel Majerus: 6 works

A slideshow of artworks auto-selected from multiple collections

By Google Arts & Culture

Michel Majerus: Halbzeit, 2002 (2002) by Michel MajerusMudam Luxembourg – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg

'Halbzeit by Luxemburg artist Michel Majerus (1967-2002) is a gestural painting which seems to have been rapidly executed.'

Michel Majerus: Running in Cycles, 2001 (2001) by Michel MajerusMudam Luxembourg – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg

'With unusual physical energy he inscribes it in an epoch which, according to a big French TV station, sells "available brain time".'

Michel Majerus: Untitled (Violet), 1997 (1997) by Michel MajerusMudam Luxembourg – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg

'In an email sent to Heike Föll in 2001, Michel Majerus writes that he is "convinced that we have no control over the little time we have to accomplish good things.'

Yet sometimes what is read successfully stops us with its meaning, no 1 (1998) by Michel MajerusInhotim

'Michel Majerus was one of the most significant artists identified with the revitalization of painting in Germany in the late 1990s. In his production, we find an amalgamation of assorted references, ranging from the abstract expressionism of William de Kooning, and its "unique" gestures, to the pop culture celebrated in U.S. rock music, and the ubiquitous predigested aura of advertising.'

You Know, You've Got a Bad Habit, You Breath (2001) by Michel MajerusInhotim

'Michel Majerus was one of the most significant artists identified with the revitalization of painting in Germany in the late 1990s.'

New Comer (2001) by Michel MajerusInhotim

'In his production, we find an amalgamation of assorted references, ranging from the abstract expressionism of William de Kooning, and its "unique" gestures, to the pop culture celebrated in U.S. rock music, and the ubiquitous predigested aura of advertising.'

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