FEHR, MARC-ANTOINE

* 13.1.1953 Zurich

Marc-Antoine Fehr was born and raised in Zurich in 1953. Today the artist lives and works between Zurich and Pressy, in Burgundy. He comes from a family of artists from Lausanne and continues the family tradition as a painter. He is the son of the painter Marie-Hélène Clément and grandson of the painter Charles Clément. Surrounded by art, the young Fehr taught himself the artistic techniques from an early age. From the very beginning, his preoccupation with figurative motifs was a matter of course for him, as Cézanne was already the measure of all things for his mother and grandfather. Fehr, always curious, was also inspired by the masters Piero della Francesa, Bruegel, Bosch and Rembrandt, and the literature of Flaubert, Kafka, Beckett, and Dante also had a significant influence on him.

Fehr's works are influenced by everyday life. Thematically, he cultivates the classic genres of still lifes, portraits, certain angles of interiors and landscapes. He makes his surroundings visible and gives simple, concrete situations a presence. For Fehr, the meaningful can scarcely be separated from the everyday and the banal, for the representational in all its materiality has too much meaning for that. His classic figurative themes and formulations may indeed hark back to the early 19th century, to the Romantic period, and thus set him apart from the contemporary themes of his time, but his approach is nevertheless very contemporary. He favours monumental formats. The pictorial motifs he chooses are not subject to any hierarchy. On the contrary, Fehr prefers to disrupt hierarchies by, for example, reversing the proportions and depicting the large as small and the small as large.

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