Marcus van Soest - Untitled

Marcus van Soest
Oil on panel
1995

Marcus van Soest moves his work between figuration and abstraction. His bold, highly colorful works are absurdist, whimsical and humorous in nature and testify to a imaginative mind. Marcus creates predominantly figurative, colorful, humorous, bizarre and estranging acrylic paintings where madness is central: L'Art de la Folie. Works by his hand are very recognizable and certainly authentic to call: form and color use are very recognizable and his visual language is optimal and multi-dimensional in nature.

Marcus was born in 1965 in The Hague, spent a year at the K.A.B.K in The Hague (graphic design), ran away in a loud screech and further trained himself in the 'Free Painting' (autodidact). He regularly exhibited in the Pulchri Studio in The Hague and there won the Van Ommeren - de Voogt Prize in 1998. In 2002 Marcus was allowed to design the poster for the Crossing Border festival and made a banner for the annual sculpture exhibition Sculptuur in The Hague. Marcus regularly works in his studio in France and exhibits there at Galerie "Le Rire Blue" in Figeac. His latest exhibition there, "Figurations Libres" with, among others, Robert Combas, Francois Boisrond, Buddy Di Rosa, Erro, Roberto Solivieres et al, took place in the summer of 2003. Currently Marcus is busy founding a center for cultural exchange in Cajarc, France: "Maison des Hirondelles".