Marcel Schreur
Marcel Schreur is a skill based multidisciplinary artist using the media; painting, sculpture drawing, mixed media. New media: art installation, video art, film, photography and VR. He is self-taught and started out from nowhere by painting vibrant landscapes that have been labelled post-impressionist by critics. However, since then he has used his unique painting technique and use of colour to tackle portraits, abstracts and more conceptual work with equal vigour, consequently breaking free from this initial labelling. If anything, Marcel is a pure expressionist as his extensive life experience never fails to play out on whatever he chooses and heavily affect the viewer. Pigeon-holing aside, Marcel has won numerous international prizes. All of this is somewhat inconsequential to an artist who creates largely to affect positive societal, if not humanitarian, change underpinned by his mantra: Life Is Beautiful. Always.
“I wish for my art to create a universe from a viewpoint of peace and tranquillity. I intend for my works to be expressive and passionate while delicate in shape and composition. I very much like to work with colours and spend quality time on the execution but also on the concepts that I am trying to communicate eloquently. I believe that my work can be defined as “Art of the Mind” but also as “Art of the Spirit”, touching upon ideas and sentiments that are important and too often neglected. I like my work to be able to speak to and intrigue the viewer”- this is how Marcel describes the concepts behind his creations and his relationship to art.
Dutch born, artist Marcel Schreur is a self-taught expressionist whose work is redolent of Vincent van Gogh in style and executed with immense texture and a multi-coloured palette.
He participated in the Chianciano International Art Awards 2012, winning the European Confederation of Art Critics Award and also received a special mention for artistic merit at the London Art Biennale 2013. Resulting in a Chelsea gallery representation at the oldest Contemporary Art gallery in London. In 2014 he was offered a solo exhibition during the European Elections in Brussels. Marcel received a price that year for the Video Clip “Life is beautiful.” at the United Kingdom National Open Art Competition.
In 2015, Marcel saw his art taking off globally which exhibitions in Koyto, New York, and Rome, amongst others. In June, he visited the Vatican and presented
a portrait of Pope Francis and two abstract paintings to the Pontiff. In September, he took part at the Chianciano Biennale in the Tuscany and in October three of his works were exhibited during the United Nations Global Forum on Migration and Development in Istanbul. In December he started to show in California.
2016 saw a solo exhibition "Life is beautiful. Always" in Kingston Upon Thames. He was also invited to the Prince's Trust art committee to help mark their 40th anniversary art event at the Darren Baker gallery in Fitzrovia. His work was shown in September next to the likes of Sir Peter Blake, Maggie Hambling, Hugh Shawcross, Pierce Brosnan and Darren Baker.
2017 Exhibition at Art Quake Kyoto, at the Kyoto Contemporary Art Museum, Japan. London Biennale, where Marcel won a prize in the Sculpture section in The Chelsea Old Town Hall. “Life is Beautiful. Always” Art Exhibition in All Saints in Kingston. The Summer Exhibition at Minley Manor where he is Artist in residence, exploring and implementing the desire to help the progress and development of the Arts between the East and the West. He was invited to organise and curate CCR Golden Jubilee Art Exhibition in Rome, Italy and creating the decor and backdrop for the 2 day Open air event in Circo Massimo, Rome for the Golden Jubilee attended by over 50.000 people and Pope Francis.
In 2018, he had two art exhibitions for Chinese Government officials at Minley Manor in Hampshire, England. Marcel participated in the First Invitational Blue Cube Arts Festival in Hangzhou, China. Marcel also started to exhibit the Virtual Reality and Art installation “Life is beautiful. Always.” at various venues in the United Kingdom. The work was designed in collaboration with senior lecturers Daniel Bacchus and Dominic Green of Sheffield Hallam Universityand shown at the Access Space Gallery, Grace gallery, a presentation to the famous Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Medical school at Leeds University and at Cambridge University's “Festival of Ideas” at the Anglia Ruskin University. The ‘Life is beautiful. Always” project took 5 years of development and completion.
In 2019 he was lead visual artist at the “Significant” event at Wembley Arena, London with 12.000 youth attending and creating two art works in collaboration with the visitors and presenting the work on the main stage. 2019 also saw the start of developing a new VR, Documentary and Art installation project with Sheffield Hallam University. In June 2019 The VR work and Art installation “Life is beautiful. Always.” was shown at the London Art Biennale and attracted over 200 participants in the Virtual Reality exploration. The news and collaborative opening with Lady Frederica Windsor of the VR and Art
installation was covered in the the London Evening Standard, Royal Centra and The Times the UK amongst many others. In August there was another presentation of the VR and Art installation in Mayfair, Central London. He particcipated in the "Art and Mind” auction at St.James’s Palace Central London in aid of mental health charities. In October Marcel was invited to the second Blue Cube Art Festival in Hangzhou, Fuyang where he was involved in a group exhibition at the Fuyang Godang Museum and in collaborative painting with 50 Chinese artists and artists from 13 different countries. In November Marcel was thanked and honoured by Mr. Wang Yongli, Minister Councillor of the education Department at the Chinese Embassy in London for his work gifted and hung in one of the reception rooms at the embassy. In January 2020 Marcel and his University collaborators on the VR and Art installation “Life is beautiful. Always” were invited to Istanbul where they presented the VR work to 5 universities and agreed collaboration on future VR work about the Refugee crisis and a number of art projects.
Website: http://www.marcelschreur.com
Instagram: @marcel.schreur
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