Martin Disler was a Swiss painter, drawer, sculptor and poet. Born into a family of farmers and gardeners, in 1968 is expelled from school for disciplinary reasons: with some companions he had occupied the Art Institute where he studied. He emigrated to West Germany where he joined the group “Neue Wilde” (practicing a new expressionist style that will take more and more importance in northern Europe). In the years between 1970 and 1980 he worked as an artist in many cities in the United States and Europe. He exhibited with artists such as Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, AR Penck, Markus Lüpertz, Gian Ruggero Manzoni, Georg Baselitz.
His art is characterized by a frenetic brushwork, primitive, instinctive, at times similar to the childish scribbles. His works, in fact, express and voluntary movement in jeopardy of space and time. In 1982 a cycle of works exhibited in Documenta VII in Kassel. In Italy he opened an exhibition during the work of the Venice Biennale in 1984. A couple of years after the Kunstmuseum in Basel presents an important solo show. He wins the prize “Bremer Kunstpreis” (1985), Preis für junge Schweizer Kunst der Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (1987) and “des Kantons Solothurn Kunstpreis” (1988). He was married with two renowned artists: Agnes Barmettler and Irene Gründel. He died prematurely in Geneva in 1996.
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Martin Disler. Häutung und Tanz / Shedding of Skin and Dance - Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Martin Disler. Vergessene Rituale - Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel
Martin Disler. Museum of Desire» - Espace Nicolas Schilling, Neuchâtel
Martin Disler. Die Umgebung der Liebe - Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur
Martin Disler (1949-1996). Rituali di carta 1981-1995 - MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona
Martin Disler - Stadt und Schatten - Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
Martin Disler. Des coups au cœur - Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève
Martin Disler. Malerei - Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Martin Disler. Opere su carta - Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milano
Martin Disler / Buchmann Box - Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Martin Disler - Un Trittico - Buchmann Lugano, Lugano
Martin Disler - Bilder vom Maler - Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Martin Disler - Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
Martin Disler - Malerei - BUCHMANN GALERIE, Berlin
Martin Disler - Loredana Sperini Il cielo in una stanza - Freymond-Guth & Co., Zurich
Martin Disler - Metamorfosi E L’Espressione Dell’Archetipo - CACT Centro d´Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona
Martin Disler Alles Blut sammelt sich im Kopf... - Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich
Martin Disler - Hilfiker Kunstprojekte, Lucerne
The Weak Sex – How Art Pictures the New Male, 18 October 2013 – 9 February 2014, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
NEUNZEHNHUNDERTSIEBZIG, 23 February – 17 November 2013, Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Altenbourg im Dialog I - Martin Disler - Lindenau-Museum Altenburg, Altenburg
Martin Disler - Galleria Opere Scelte, Turin
Martin Disler - Kloster Schönthal Skulpturenpark, Langenbruck
Collection Mezzezine Foundation for Art, 28 October 2011 – 26 February 2012, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
XXX Thirty Years peter Blum Edition, 10 September – 22 October 2011, Peter Blum Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
In the Realm of Drawing: Pictorial Worlds between Dream and Reality, 4 December 2010 – 25 April 2011, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Veronika and Peter Monauni Collection, 6 November 2009 – 21 February 2010, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Mixed Media On Paper, 30 June – 29 August 2009, Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Im Zeichen Des Eros, 9 April – 31 May 2008, Galerie Rigassi, Bern, Switzerland