Mark Jenkins (artist)

Mark Jenkins (born 1970 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American street art artists. His most famous works are installations in road space, which he made ​​from duct tape. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Works

Jenkins ' first art work of this kind was a series of prints of his body of transparent tape, which he installed in the streets of Rio de Janeiro ( 2003). When Størker - Project 2005 with Sandra Fernandez, he placed a series of " baby " of adhesive tape in different cities. Began in 2006 Jenkins, dress the sculptures so that from them hyper realistic body were ( Embed Series). In 2007, the artist Banksy has been personally invited to participate in his project " Santa's Ghetto " in Bethlehem. Together with Greenpeace in 2008, he worked on the road installation " Plight of the Polar Bears". In collaboration with the Kunstverein Positive Propaganda eV realized Mark Jenkins, 2013 in Munich, a work entitled " Tic Tac Toe", in which a sculpture in the form of a graffiti artist on a facade in Munich's Westend paints Jenkins ' street art uses the street as a stage, are on the passers-by to actors. Many of his installations, security forces called into action, which he also regarded as a player.

Jenkins describes his entire work, as the Glazed Paradise; his eponymous website glazedparadise.com displays digital collages his street characters in surreal environments.

" Mark Jenkins was known by a number of unusual installations in urban space. Lifelike, made ​​of conventional packing tape animal figures, such as dogs and giraffes, but also people were left by him without a specific order at selected locations in most urban areas. In this tradition, standing is "Embed " a long-term project, used for the Jenkins package band decreases his own body. These offices held by him figures are encountered in various poses. They beg, sit on rooftops or waiting on facade walls. All figures Jenkins ' have in common that they are faceless and therefore seem strange, despite their everyday appearance. They seem to be completely isolated from their environment. So his sculptures are like a social experiment that provokes a whole range of emotions. For instance, when a fortified at a trash can bear figure, the artist 2008 for a Greenpeace environmental campaign installed, such a panic triggers that even a bomb disposal squad was turned on. "

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2008: Fresh air smells funny, Kunsthalle Dominican church, Osnabrück.
• 2008: Call it what you like! Collection Rik Reinking, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark.
• 2009: Urban- Art - Works from the Reinking Collection, Weser Castle Museum of Modern Art, Bremen.
• 2011: Street Art - meanwhile in deepest east anglia, thunderbirds were go ..., Von der Heydt Museum, Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal.