Mario Emes

1953 born in Carinthia, Austria; studied biochemistry, art history, anthropology, psychology and philosophy in Vienna, Austria; 1976-1980 exhibitions in Austria, Italy, Spain, Germany and Switzerland; 1980 moved to New York City; 1980-1996 various exhibitions (group and one man) in Europe (Art Basel, Switzerland with Hans Hartung; Vienna, Austria with Franz West and Erwin Wurm) and the US (Jean Michel Basquiat, Jessica Stockholder, Keith Haring, Gustavo Torres, David Hammons, etc.); 1991 collaborated with Regina Taylor (spouse) and Joseph Papp, director of the Public Theater in Manhattan, on two plays staged for the New York Shakespeare Festival. Work is in European museums and European and US private collections.


ARTIST'S STATEMENT:


Cultural sciences practice pneumatology with an empirical disposition. For the now, this program can only be carried out by reconstruction and accumulation, because the "thing itself," the universe of influence climata of designed atmospheres, of modified airs and of adjusted, measured, legalized environments, has - with the very far reaching advances in the explication of natural scientific, technical, military, legislative legal, architectonic and artistic spheres - gained an almost unbe...

1971-1976 Studied biochemistry in Vienna, Austria
1975-1979 Attended various art history, philosophy, anthropology and psychology lectures at the University of Vienna, Austria

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Swivel Gallery “In the Bleak Midwinter”, Saugerties, NY curated by Graham Wilson (https://www.swivelgallery.com/bleak-midwinter)

1996 Katonah Museum, Katonah, New York, curated by Robert Storr
1990 Gallery Rastovsky, New York, NY
Gallery Daniel Newburg, New York, NY
1988 Gallery Rastovsky, New York, NY
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Wolff, New York, NY
Gallery Machina Espanola, Seville, Spain
1987 Gallery Tom Cugliani, New York, NY
Gallery Daniel Newburg, New York, NY
Fashion Moda Museum, New York, NY
1986 Fashion Moda Museum, South Bronx, NY
1985 IMF Gallery, Washingon, DC
Fashion Moda Museum, Bronx, NY
1984 Gallery Carla Fuehr, Munich, Germany
Art 15 (Art Basel), Basel, Switzerland (Gallery Gabriel)
IMF Gallery, Washington, DC
Gallery Wurzer, Houston, TX
1983 Art 14 (Art Basel), Basel, Switzerland (Gallery Gabriel)
1982 Gallery Gabriel, Vienna, Austria

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
Cultural Department of the Province of Carinthia, Austria
European and US private collections


NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

1985 Sueddeutsche Zeitung: “Besuche aus New York” by Hanne Wexcott (March 21, 1985
1984 Art Speak (New York): “Abstract Oil Painter, by C. Barth Firestein, March 1...