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Michel Majerus (1967 – 2002) was a Luxembourgish artist whose work combined painting with digital media. He lived and worked in Berlin until his death in an accident in November 2002.〔(Project Space: Michel Majerus, January 24 – April 18, 2004 ) Tate Liverpool.〕 His work was featured in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Europe and North America, most notably the "Pop Reloaded" exhibition in Los Angeles. ==Life and early works== Majerus was born in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg in 1967. In 1986, Majerus began to study at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, graduating in 1992. Painting was Majerus’s preferred medium of expression, but his creative horizon extended to many aspects of popular culture, from computer games, digital imagery, film, television, and pop music to trademarks and corporate logos.〔(Project Space: Michel Majerus, January 24 – April 18, 2004 ) Tate Liverpool.〕 His paintings' stylistic quotations include excerpts from Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning and Jean-Michel Basquiat,〔Dorothy Spears (October 25, 2013), (Galleries as the Art World’s Leading Indicators ) ''New York Times''.〕 video games and other pop-culture sources.〔(Michel Majerus, February 8 - April 19, 2014 ) Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.〕 He did not limit himself to two-dimensional surfaces, but created dynamic, painted installations which surround the viewer.〔(Michel Majerus: "what looks good today may not look good tomorrow", June 24 - October 16, 2005 ) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.〕 In ''if you are dead, so it is'' (2000), Majerus covered the interior surface of a skateboarders' half-pipe.〔(Michel Majerus, May 31 - September 23, 2012 ) Centre d'arts plastiques contemporains de Bordeaux.〕 After moving to Los Angeles in 2000 through the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), an academic exchange, Majerus began work on a series of thirty large-format paintings incorporating digital media and animated videos. Completed in Berlin the following year, the series eventually comprised over thirty works.〔(Project Space: Michel Majerus, January 24 – April 18, 2004 ) Tate Liverpool.〕 Nine of these works would eventually become the "Pop Reloaded" exhibition in Los Angeles. "Pop Reloaded" emphasised the visual confusion of urban landscapes and the scale and domination imposed by freeway billboards and office towers. It drew on works by Cy Twombly, Mark Rothko and Gerhard Richter in inscribing logos and detail on the dull greys and blacks of a cityscape. The paintings were accompanied by a video of a constantly changing image of Majerus' signature, to illustrate the idea of celebrity as a constantly changing concept.〔(Project Space: Michel Majerus, January 24 – April 18, 2004 ) Tate Liverpool.〕 Majerus was working on an exhibition entitled "Project Space" for Tate Liverpool when he died.〔(Project Space: Michel Majerus, January 24 – April 18, 2004 ) Tate Liverpool.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michel Majerus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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