Michel Majerus
30 March – 7 May 2000

All possible visual media collide in the installations of Michel Majerus, producing a vibrant and disorientating arrangement of imagery. For the recent German Open exhibition in Wolfsburg, Majerus contributed a 30 by 80 metre three-dimensional design of coloured spheres and grids, wryly announcing ‘what looks good today may not look good tomorrow – now’s the time’. This work seemed to belong to the world of corporate presentation, using all the techniques of the commercial designer to encapsulate the high expectations surrounding the show.
 
Michel Majerus proposes an equally ambitious project for his installation at Delfina. A new environment of brightly coloured curved walls creates a disorientating space through which visitors engage with a seemingly endless flow of images and text. The amorphous walling conceals the familiar columns of the exhibition space, producing irregular and confusing corridors and spaces. A highly charged visual clash results from the range of quotations used, from historical art works, product design, comic book pictures and computer images to logos and slogans taken from advertising and street signs. From Majerus’ perspective, all visual media have acquired equal value and should simply be viewed as co-exisiting simultaneously.
 
To coincide with this exhibition, Majerus will present a major new video work on the exterior screen of Home club, Leicester Square – dates and times to be announced shortly.
 
Born in Esch in 1967, Michel Majerus has lived and worked in Berlin since 1992, exhibiting with neugerriemschneider (1994, 96, 99). He is a prominent member of a new generation of artists emerging from Berlin to international recognition. Majerus presented a solo exhibition at Asprey Jacques, London in 1999, and installed a major work on the façade of the Italian Pavilion in the Venice Biennale, also 1999. Earlier exhibitions include a solo show at the Kunsthalle, Basel (1996) and Manifesta 2 (1998).