Marcel Strüwer - WeActivist
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Marcel Strüwer-van Zuylen (dutch citizen) was born 1969 in Stockholm, Sweden. He spent almost half his childhood in Paris, France, to where he also moved after his school years. It was in Paris where his interests in art began.
- Living with your father who is one of Sweden’s most well-known artist, it’s not easy to get into art. You’ll get pretty fed up with someone who tries to convince you to get into the same profession. It was something I had to discover by myself. So I went undercover...
Sneaking in to the croquis classes at the Beaux Art, wandering around the city and hanging around the museums and galleries. And of course, bars and nightclubs...
After two years in Paris, he had New York in his mind and it was there he really got into the contemporary art scene. Artists like Basquiat, Salle, Rauschenberg and Kiefer turned him on and now he felt that things started to happen. He was convinced that this was it. He moved back to Sweden and studied graphic design at the RMI Berghs.
- I really didn’t want to study at the usual Art Schools. I already had that in me. I had spent twenty years of my life with my own private art professor...my father. It was the new medias and techniques I needed to discover. On the side I studied the History of Art anyway.
After two years of studies and a degree in Art History, he felt that he was ready for the art scene. Now he has done over thirty exhibitions around Europe and is represented in many private collections...
About the art
You could say that Marcel Strüwer-van Zuylen lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. But actually he uses the whole world as his studio. Hundreds of small pieces of posters, collected from around the globe, are put together on his canvases. The artworks are the results of his journeys. Indonesia to Poland. United States to Spain. Wherever he travels he brings back posters as a sort of souvenir collection. Papers mounted on walls in cities and countryside’s with political messages, concert-ads, club-flyers. Anything goes. It’s when it ends up back home in his studio where the real project starts. Combining, tearing, remaking and recolouring, he starts to arrange them in aesthetic creations, using gallons of glue, and medias such as acrylic, oil-stick, spray-paint. It results in a big creation of messages from the people.
At a first glimpse for the untrained eye it may look as a chaotic creation of colours, typography, shapes and photos/pictures. But in a few seconds it settles down and appears more tranquil and harmonic.
He often refers to his works as a sort of freedom of speech for others.
- Why should you always express your own ideas and feelings in art? It’s selfish... I really don’t want my personal ups and downs in another person’s home or office...
- Living with your father who is one of Sweden’s most well-known artist, it’s not easy to get into art. You’ll get pretty fed up with someone who tries to convince you to get into the same profession. It was something I had to discover by myself. So I went undercover...
Sneaking in to the croquis classes at the Beaux Art, wandering around the city and hanging around the museums and galleries. And of course, bars and nightclubs...
After two years in Paris, he had New York in his mind and it was there he really got into the contemporary art scene. Artists like Basquiat, Salle, Rauschenberg and Kiefer turned him on and now he felt that things started to happen. He was convinced that this was it. He moved back to Sweden and studied graphic design at the RMI Berghs.
- I really didn’t want to study at the usual Art Schools. I already had that in me. I had spent twenty years of my life with my own private art professor...my father. It was the new medias and techniques I needed to discover. On the side I studied the History of Art anyway.
After two years of studies and a degree in Art History, he felt that he was ready for the art scene. Now he has done over thirty exhibitions around Europe and is represented in many private collections...
About the art
You could say that Marcel Strüwer-van Zuylen lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. But actually he uses the whole world as his studio. Hundreds of small pieces of posters, collected from around the globe, are put together on his canvases. The artworks are the results of his journeys. Indonesia to Poland. United States to Spain. Wherever he travels he brings back posters as a sort of souvenir collection. Papers mounted on walls in cities and countryside’s with political messages, concert-ads, club-flyers. Anything goes. It’s when it ends up back home in his studio where the real project starts. Combining, tearing, remaking and recolouring, he starts to arrange them in aesthetic creations, using gallons of glue, and medias such as acrylic, oil-stick, spray-paint. It results in a big creation of messages from the people.
At a first glimpse for the untrained eye it may look as a chaotic creation of colours, typography, shapes and photos/pictures. But in a few seconds it settles down and appears more tranquil and harmonic.
He often refers to his works as a sort of freedom of speech for others.
- Why should you always express your own ideas and feelings in art? It’s selfish... I really don’t want my personal ups and downs in another person’s home or office...
