Marc-Antoine Fehr: Renaissance

Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten, Switzerland

In 1990, the Kunstverein presented Marc-Antoine Fehr's work together with works by his mother and grandfather in the show "Three Generations of a Painting Family. Charles Clément, Marie-Hélène Clément, Marc-Antoine Fehr," and since then he has been represented repeatedly in group exhibitions (most recently in 2017). In addition, the Kunstmuseum owns "Inferno" from 1983, one of his capital works, which beautifully illustrates the virtuosity of his craft and the complexity of the content of his old-master-like painting.

Fehr's paintings are captivating not only for their brilliantly applied technique, but also for their content, which makes no distinction between the meaningful and the everyday banal. The presence of the representational is captivating. The paintings show the objects far from hierarchical interpretations, because the painter loves to undermine existing orders by making big things seem small and small things big. He is a master of staging and understands like no other how to present existential themes on a stage where the world invites theater.

In his first solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Olten, Marc-Antoine Fehr is showing a selection of works from recent years. Carefully selected large works from the most recent creative period are woven into a "picture frieze" meandering through the rooms from the small-format series of "Vagabondages" created in recent years.

 

Curator: Dorothee Messmer