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Works<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Biography<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Marcus Egli was born in Z\u00fcrich in 1957<\/strong> – \u2020 2016 – Ponts-de-Martel – Switzerland<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marcus Egli doesn’t call himself a sculptor, but a metalworker. His encounter with aluminum came about in the 1980s, when he and his wife bought a small hardware manufacturing business. There he cultivated the skills needed to handle this capricious metal, whose liquidity, lightness, soft color with a discreet bluish sheen, and conductivity allow him to feel the heat and energy of those who touch it….<\/p>\n

These works are often variations on the motif of the “Hominium”, a small figure with a stiff posture and a polished face that reflects the image of the beholder and the world around him. He plays on the contrast of materials; the rough and rugged aspect of the body combined with the smooth. Marcus Egli stages his “Hominium”, bringing them together and conditioning them. He creates loose or dense crowds, blocks, galleries of portraits.<\/p>\n

In this way, Marcus Egli questions our relationship with the world, our relationship with history. His stagings, which often resemble installations, tackle the themes of the absurd, anonymity, multitude and solitude. They reflect to us the image of our own existence. The temporality froze in metal and moved in its image. His mirror games are also role-playing games in which everyone can find themselves or lose themselves.<\/p>\n

Exhibitions and fairs: <\/strong><\/p>\n

2025
\nGroup show – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
\nModerne Art Fair – Galerie Artima – Paris – F<\/p>\n

2024
\nR\u00e9trospective<\/em> – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
\nModerne Art Fair – Galerie Artima – Paris – F<\/p>\n

2023
\nGroup show – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
\nModerne Art Fair – Galerie Artima – Paris \u2013 F
\nPortr\u00e4t Marcus Egli<\/em> – Gewoelbe Galerie – Bienne – CH<\/p>\n

2022
\nNoir & Blanc<\/em> – Group show – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nSummer show <\/em>– Galerie Artima – Paris – F<\/p>\n

2021
\nR\u00e9trospective, Sculptures & Installations<\/em> – Gewoelbe Galerie – Bienne – CH
\nGalerie Artima – Group show – Paris – F<\/p>\n

2020
\nCosmos<\/em> – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
\nSummer show <\/em>– Galerie Artima – Paris – F
\nWaltman Ortega Fine Arts – Miami – USA<\/p>\n

2019
\nContext Miami – Galerie Artima- F
\nDesign<\/em> – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
\nWaltman Ortega Fine Arts – Miami – USA
\nArt Central Hong Kong – Galerie Olivier Waltman – HGK<\/p>\n

2018
\nGalerie Artima – Paris – F
\nThe Art & Antiques Fair – London – GB<\/p>\n

2017
\nBlack & White<\/em> – Group show – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
\nWaltman Ortega Fine Arts – Miami – USA<\/p>\n

2016
\nCollection Particuli\u00e8re<\/em> – Group show – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
\nRemix <\/em>– Group show – Galerie Olivier Waltman – Paris – F
\nArt Paris – Galerie Oliver Waltman – Paris – F
\nAAF Brussels – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
\nGalerie Artima \u2013 London – GB<\/p>\n

2015
\nGalerie Artima – Group show – Paris – F
\nGalerie d\u2019(A) – Lausanne – CH
\nRegards crois\u00e9s<\/em> – Paris\/Li\u00e8ge – Galerie Dany Liehrmann – Li\u00e8ge – B
\nGewoelbe Galerie – Bienne – CH
\nArt Paris – Galerie Oliver Waltman – Paris<\/p>\n

2014
\nGalerie Artima – Paris
\nGroup show with Kurt Bratschi – Gewoelbe Galerie – Bienne – CH
\nArt Paris – Galerie Olivier Waltman – Paris<\/p>\n

2013
\nLumi\u00e8res M\u00e9talliques<\/em> – Group show – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nG\u2019Art – Galerie Grard – Neuch\u00e2tel – CH
\nAtelier-Galerie Hofstetter – Group show – Fribourg – CH
\nLille Art Fair – Galerie LBL – F
\n(D)eux<\/em> – Galerie d\u2019(A) – Lausanne – CH<\/p>\n

2012
\nAluminium <\/em>– Galerie Artima – Paris – F
\nSt-art – Strasbourg – Galerie Artima – F
\nArt O\u2019clock – Paris – Galerie Artima – F
\nArt en Paysage – Assens – outdoor group show – CH
\nUno, nessuno e centomila<\/em> – Galerie OltreDimore – Bologne – IT<\/p>\n

2011
\nArt Elys\u00e9es – Galerie Artima \u2013 Paris – F
\nWoolff Gallery – London – GB
\nAux yeux de tous<\/em> – Visarte.VD – Lausanne – outdoor group show – CH
\nLe manque<\/em> – Galerie Grard – Fenin – group show – CH
\nArt en plein<\/em> air – M\u00f4tiers – outdoor group show – CH
\nVisarte.NE – Neuch\u00e2tel – group show – CH<\/p>\n

2010
\nCulture en pots<\/em> – Visarte Neuch\u00e2tel – CH
\nAAF New York – Woolff Gallery London – GB
\nAluminium 3.710 – L\u2019Espinoa – Baignes – F
\nGew\u00f6lbe Galerie – Bienne – duo with Kurt Bratschi – CH<\/p>\n

2009
\nGalerie MMB – Avignon – F
\nGalerie Nelly l\u2019Eplattenier – duo with Jeanne-Odette – Lausanne – CH
\nEx-voto La Nef – Le Noirmont – CH
\nSkulptura 09 – outdoor group show – Glarus – CH
\nTIAF Toronto – Woolff Gallery London – GB<\/p>\n

2008
\nBiennale SAMBA – La Chaux-de-Fonds – CH
\nLondon Art Fair – Woolff Gallery London – GB
\nJetzt Kunst 08 – outdoor group show – Sch\u00fcpfen – CH
\nAAF Amsterdam – Woolff Gallery London – GB
\nFronti\u00e8res<\/em>–<\/em>Grenze<\/em>–<\/em>Frontiere<\/em> – Visarte Neuch\u00e2tel – CH<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2641","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nMarcus EGLI - Biography - Galerie Artima<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MARCUS EGLI - Swiss sculptor born 1957 in Zurich - Died in 2016 - Works in aluminum to create his Hominium, small figures with polished faces that reflect the image of the viewer and the world around them.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/galerie-artima.com\/en\/marcus-egli-biography\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marcus EGLI - 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