Marc Egger's phosphorescence

Known for his dual and luminous works in the dark, the Swiss artist died eleven years ago at the Hospital dels Camils, leaving a very important legacy, preserved by his daughter Cora Egger, trainer in the Farbe art therapy method, which she teaches in the workshop and exhibition hall located on Sant Pere més Alt street in Barcelona. The LOM method created by Bettina Egger and Jörg Merz is defined as solution-focused painting. The plastic work with pigments applied directly with the hands and on a paper surface acts as a trigger and can help to overcome psychic abysses, traumas or difficult decisions in both children and adults.

Marc Egger settled in Sitges around 1995 with his second wife Andrea Zurek, a visual artist and direct disciple of Joseph Beuys. Marc Egger's relationship with Spain comes from his research as an art collector and from the meeting with several artists from Matarraña (Mel Ramos, Mauricio Wacquez, José Donoso...) where he searched for the origins of Cubism initiated by Picasso in Horta de Sant Joan. With an innate talent for capturing natural phenomena, Marc Egger developed a language that, starting from advertising and pop art of the sixties, led to a cosmological vision of life, creating luminous universes and illusory spaces of great appeal. His paintings and sculptures were shown in several exhibitions, of which the one at the Juan Cabré Museum in Calaceit (Teruel) and the "Art Lluminós" exhibition at the CC Miramar in 2010 stand out.

At Cora Egger's Atelier, you can once again capture all of his evocative power in the Marc Egger exhibition organized in Barcelona. It remains to be highlighted the collection that he collected and in permanent deposit at the Kunsthaus in Glarus (Switzerland) composed of more than a hundred small-format works by the most prominent artists of the artistic panorama of the sixties and seventies of the New York art scene where Marc lived for years concentrating this collection of great significance and interest. Marc was a true talent scout and, nevertheless, he possessed a talent that he left captured and maintained in his phosphorescent works of art. The intensity of his search and the discovery of new knowledge remains in the personal collection and in the one that he created largely in his Sitges studio located opposite the El Retiro recreational society, on Carrer d'Àngel Vidal in Sitges.