{"title":"Michel Majerus","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichel Majerus (1967–2002) was a Luxembourg-born, Berlin-based painter who combined the visual material of contemporary life — advertising, product packaging, logos, video games, cartoons, music and earlier art — into large-scale paintings and installations. He died in a plane crash in 2002 at the age of thirty-five.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe material gathered here records that practice through exhibition invitations and printed ephemera issued in connection with his exhibitions.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"michel-majerus-matthew-marks-gallery-los-angeles-2015","title":"MICHEL MAJERUS — Michel Majerus. Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eMatthew Marks Gallery, 1062 North Orange Grove Avenue and 7969 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, 21 November 2015–9 January 2016. Original large-format exhibition invitation for Michel Majerus’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Colour offset printing on card stock, 24 × 16 cm. Detail from \u003cem\u003eoverdose\u003c\/em\u003e, 1997, to recto; artist name, exhibition dates, Los Angeles address and complete work caption to verso. The exhibition brought together nine paintings made between 1996 and 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very good. Light handling and surface marks, minor edge and corner wear, with faint rubbing and small marks to the typographic side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMajerus combined painting with the visual material already moving through contemporary life: advertising, product packaging, logos, video games, cartoons, music and earlier art. Born in Luxembourg and based in Berlin, he developed this language across paintings and large-scale installations before his death in 2002 at the age of thirty-five.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation reproduces a section of \u003cem\u003eoverdose\u003c\/em\u003e, a monumental fifteen-panel acrylic painting measuring 480 × 700 cm. Its accumulated imagery includes detergent packaging, an ice-cream wrapper, a club flyer and Woody from \u003cem\u003eToy Story\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA painting assembled from material designed for rapid recognition is reduced to a portable announcement. Packaging, entertainment and commercial graphics enter the gallery, then leave again as printed distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matthew Marks Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54033832804690,"sku":"MAJERUS-MATTHEWMARKS-INV-2015","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Majerus_Michel._Matthew_Marks_Gallery_show_invite._2016_front.jpg?v=1784355513"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/michel-majerus.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}