Hugo Markl

Contemporary artist Hugo Markl performs a concentrated reflection on receptive processes per se – deliberate intellectual error – in relation to the processing of text, film, and art: tradition, culture change, and art movement understood as intellectual auto-digestion. Within every tradition, overcoming artistic and intellectual key works has been characterized by mixing facts with fiction. Markl's art stands as a type of the Superfiction or conceptual artwork that uses fiction and appropriation. At the time he began working, American and European art was somehow labeled as Neo-Pop and Neo-Geo. Markl was-and still is a versatile artist, and worked in every major genre: installation, live music; video, sound and light installations have become an integral part of his exhibitions, he advanced the conceptual reach of appropriation-art and revised a great deal of art theory with his latest drawing series IQ, including other forms of light and heavy entertainment. Roberta Smith makes the point forcefully: A little-known Vietnam-era protest by Donald Judd inverts the American flag into orange, green and black fabric, looking back to Jasper Johns and forward to David Hammons. Ulay's S'He, a 1975 Polaroid triptych of himself, a Yugoslavia...

born in 1964, is an American contemporary artist, lives and works in New York, 1985-1990 Studied at University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.