Discovering the works of Marc Wagner is always an invigorating plunge into colour. The artist has an extraordinary personality as a colourist that Gauguin, the Douanier Rousseau and the Fauvists would not have denied, and he turns the painting into a window onto the visible world or onto fragments tinged with impressions, reminiscences and inner emotions.
These landscapes are to be understood as experimental fields. While the painter bases his work on real sites discovered on his travels, they are transformed by his imagination. They then appear to us with great topographical freedom and a jubilant palette. Marc Wagner often likes to tickle our perception. Perspective is lost, the vanishing point eludes us, and the bird's-eye views are vertiginous. We are unsettled, disorientated and at the same time transported to a poetic elsewhere.
In his narrative scenes, the artist does not shy away from incongruous, droll confrontations tinged with gentle irony and critical verve. (....)
But rest assured, Marc Wagner is not one to give lessons. If he picks up his brushes, it's to express on canvas his pleasure in painting, which for him resonates with the joy of sharing, communicating and exchanging with the observer. He offers us a vision of nature and the world rich in poetic abundance, but also the fruit of research and experimentation...(Text: Nathalie Becker, September 2018)
2024
Fellner Contemporary (solo) Luxembourg
2023
Maison de la Culture, Diekirch (solo)
50 Joer Lëtzebuerger Konscht, Strassen (group)(L)
2021
Figure in Print, BNL, MNHA, (group)
2018
House17 (solo)Luxembourg
2017
Millegalerie Beckerich (solo)Luxembourg
Kunstverein Dahn, Galerie Beck (group)Germany
Kölner Liste, Galerie Beck (group)Germany
2016
Art Fair Luxembourg, Galerie Beck (group)Luxembourg
Galerie Schortgen Artworks Luxembourg (solo)Luxembourg
2015
LAW, Luxembourg Art Week, Galerie Schortgen, (group)Luxembourg
Galerie Beck, Homburg, (group)Luxembourg
Maison de la Culture, Diekirch (solo), Luxembourg
2014
Luxexpo, GR Business Days, Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce (solo), Luxembourg
European Parliament Brussels, Galerie Beck, 25 Jahre Mauerfall (group)Belgium
Maison de la Culture Roumaine, Galerie Beck, (group)Belgium
Galerie Schlassgoart, Pavillon du Centenaire, Esch/Alzette (solo), Luxembourg
2013
Luxexpo, GR Business Days, Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce (solo), Luxembourg
BGL BNP Paribas / CAL (group), Luxembourg
Maison de la Culture, Diekirch (solo), Luxembourg
For this latest edition of the Interview, Art Work Circle went to meet Luxembourg painter Marc Wagner at the Fellner Contemporary gallery, where he is currently showing his exhibition "Grande réserve" until 24 February. An opportunity to talk about colour and experimentation.
Luxembourg weekly Revue visited Marc Wagner in his studio at the Pabeierberg in the capital. It was an opportunity to realise that, despite his works bursting with colour and expressive shapes, the artist is in fact a friend of calm tones.
