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David Maars

Berlin, Germany
Artist (Painting, Textile Art)
Born 1973

Artist’s Bio

David Maars, born 15 December 1973 in Sarcelles (France), is a versatile self-taught artist who works as much in visual arts (Painting, Installation, fresco, drawing, stencil, textile design), that in musical postproduction, live performance...

After studying graphic and plastic art in Paris (EDTA Sornas) and in the provinces at the School of Fine Arts, he left France in 1995 to settle in Berlin.

In Berlin, he turned to music and founded various experimental group projects: “Mancmal-à-Makeup, Platzblanche, DJ Diskopath, Cats on Peacocks...”

Organizer of events, in 2010 Together with Andreas Schwarz and Emmanuel Hubaut, he founded the musical event ICH BIN EIN BERLINER “IN” Festival at SO36 in Berlin.

In August 2019 he founded with Andreas Schwarz the collective of artists «DIE KETTE (The chain)» which brings together 13 artists, all interdisciplinary and active in the related arts of fine arts - cinema, theatre, events, music and literature.(Tata Christiane, J. Jackie Baier, Reinhard Kleist, Gabriele Gysi, Miriam Glinka, Thomas Korn, Marianne Enzensberger, Thomas Götz d'Aust, Emmanuel Hubaut, Filomena Nightingale, Bertil Thomas, Andreas Schwarz and David Maars.)

Influence, artwork & technique: 

Stimulated by the works of G.Klimt, E.Schiele, J.Beuys, Pop Art of The pop "Andy Warhol", urban/street art, «sub»culture, underground scene, Queer movement, "la callas" to «D.Galás", from E.Satie to post-punk, from disco to electroclash, Maars mixes the disciplines and these heteroclite sources.

Painting on canvas (Acrylic)+synthetic hair, painting on textile «hairy-shirt» (Acryl.+Synthetic H.), installation, video, conceptual and interactive artwork, the artist uses QR code* to communicate with the spectator.

(*The QR Code is a code that can be "read" or "scanned" by a device equipped with a QR Code reader, created by the Japanese company Denso Wave in 1994, this black and white checkered a fancy chessboard has become the technology to use in the era of smartphones connected to the Internet www.unitag.io/en/qrcode/what-is-a-qrcode).

Discover contemporary artworks by David Maars, browse recent artworks and buy online. Categories: contemporary german artists. Artistic domains: Painting, Textile Art. Account type: Artist , member since 2018 (Country of origin France). Buy David Maars's latest works on Artmajeur: Discover great art by contemporary artist David Maars. Browse artworks, buy original art or high end prints.

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