Michel Majerus: If We Are Dead, So It Is.KOLNISCHER KUNSTVEREIN With a booty BOOTY, war. The capture of personal property by a public enemy on land, in contradistinction to prize, which is a capture of such property by such an enemy, on the sea. 2. of painted and computer-printed quotations lifted liberally from art and pop culture alike, the Berlin-based artist Michel Majerus Michel Majerus (b. 1967, d. 2002) was an artist whose work combined painting with digital media.[1] His work was featured in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Europe and North America, most notably the "Pop Reloaded" exhibition in Los Angeles. offers a hybrid experience. Like a spectator before an interactive computer-animation screen, the visitor to Majerus's shows becomes at once observer and actor whose movement through the space transforms the mural mural Painting applied to and made integral with the surface of a wall or ceiling. Its roots can be found in the universal desire that led prehistoric peoples to create cave paintings—the desire to decorate their surroundings and express their ideas and beliefs. into moving pictures. At Kunstverein director Udo Kittelmann's invitation, Majerus will cover the interior surface of a skateboarders' half-pipe running the length of the 164-foot gallery. Glide See Glide Effortless and Glide PhotoShare. through on foot or, even better, on roller blades--but don't let the museum guards catch you! Oct. 21-Dec. 23. |
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