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- Born in 1968 in Volkel, The Netherlands, Manders currently lives and works in Ronse, Belgium.
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Mark Manders
Dutch artist
Mark Manders (born 1968 in Volkel) is a Dutch artist, currently living and working in Ronse, Belgium.[1] His work consists mainly of installations, drawings and sculptures.[2] He is probably best known for his large bronze figures that look like rough-hewn, wet or peeling clay. Typical of his work is also the arrangement of random objects, such as tables, chairs, light bulbs, blankets and dead animals.[3]
Biography
Working as a graphic designer in his late teens, Manders studied at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem (now ArtEZ Academy of Art & Design) from 1988 to 1992.[4] During his studies, his fascination for design and language, and particularly poetry, further developed into a visual language of his own, where words were substituted by objects.[1] His work soon gained widespread interest and in 1992, upon graduating from the academy, the artist was awarded the second prize at the Dutch Prix de Rome in the category Art & Public Space.
Together with Roger Willems and Marc
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Mark Manders
Although time and place-related references appear to be irrelevant in Manders’ work, there is one year that is often being referred to: 1986. This is the year in which Manders (Vonkel, 1968) outlined the concept of his work, Self-Portrait as a Building. His work resembles a fictional building, divided into separate rooms and levels, of which the size and shape can never exactly be determined. Potential shifts and extensions constantly threaten the cohesion of the ever-expanding self-portrait. Manders works toward one big overarching moment that will bring together all his works, continuously interconnected and in dialogue with each other. There is no beginning or end. It is impossible to organize or date his works chronologically on the basis of visual clues. His work, in this way, might as well be created in the early 20th century; a thought he seems to eagerly embrace.
Mark Manders, Inhabited for a Survey (First Floor Plan from Self-Portrait as a Building), 1986 / writing materials, erasers, painting tools, scissors / 8 x 267 x 90 cm / Art Institute of Chicago
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Mark Manders
Mark Manders was born in 1968 in Volkel, The Netherlands. He currently lives in Ronse, Belgium.
In 1986, at the age of 18, Mark Manders produced Inhabited for a Survey (First Floor Plan from Self Portrait as a Building), a nearly three-meter-long architectural plan, not drawn but literally made up of writing instruments, painting materials, erasers and scissors. It was his first attempt at “self-portraiture,” one which inextricably interwove the written and the visual, the spatial and the fictional. Since then, the artist has conceived his work as the unfolding of this initial ambition, a comprehensive and by definition unfinished project. Each of his installations, sculptures, publications, and drawings thus constitute different rooms of an autobiographical building – a total work, diffracted and suspended in an eternal present, in which the multiple dimensions of the body and language, of physical space and the imaginary, are brought into play.
His work is represented by Xavier Hufkens (Brussels), Koyanagi Gallery (Tokyo), Tanya Bonakdar (NY and Los
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