Marc Sparfel

Marc Sparfel transforms old and discarded pieces of wood that he collects on the streets of Barcelona into elaborate animal-like masks and complex architectural sculptures.

Works

Marc Sparfel: CF6R (Monochrome Red), 2017 — CF6R (Monochrome Red), 2017, Holzassemblage, 115 × 91 × 76 cm

Marc Sparfel: CF4N (Monochrome Black II), 2017 — CF4N (Monochrome Black II), 2017, Holzassemblage, 129 × 83 × 70 cm

Marc Sparfel: CF2B (Monochrome Blue), 2017 — CF2B (Monochrome Blue), 2017, , 117 × 76 × 61 cm

Marc Sparfel: Mammuthus, 2018 — Mammuthus, 2018, Holzassemblage, 127 × 101 × 66 cm

Marc Sparfel: RC3 (Multicolour), 2019 — RC3 (Multicolour), 2019, Holzassemblage, 108 × 36 × 37 cm

Marc Sparfel: Black Uro, 2018 — Black Uro, 2018, Holzassemblage, 104 × 53 × 62 cm

Marc Sparfel: Pronghorn, 2012 — Pronghorn, 2012, Holzassemblage, 57 × 83 × 22 cm

Marc Sparfel: Black cobe, 2018 — Black cobe, 2018, Holzassemblage, 161 × 93 × 19 cm

Marc Sparfel: Ibex, 2014 — Ibex, 2014, Holzassemblage, 90 × 53 × 50 cm

Marc Sparfel: Cornes Saumon, 2018 — Cornes Saumon, 2018, Holzassemblage, 75 × 79 cm

Marc Sparfel: Grand masque noir II, 2018 — Grand masque noir II, 2018, Holzassemblage, 104 × 98 × 43 cm

Marc Sparfel: Bull, 2015 — Bull, 2015, Holzassemblage, 84 × 68 × 30 cm

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Artist portrait

Artist portrait
Marc Sparfel

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

Wood Anima
Jan 2019

Nov 2015

Group Exhibitions

Private Choice II
Jan 2023

PRIVATE CHOICE
Nov 2022

Art Essences XXIV
Feb 2021

15 Years of Galerie Friedmann-Hahn
May 2020

Jan 2016

Jul 2014

Jan 2014

Oct 2013

Kunstessenzen IV
Jan 2013

Gruppenausstellung Frühjahr 2011
Mar 2011

Gruppenausstellung Oktober 2010
Oct 2010

Gruppenausstellung Juli/August 2010
Jul 2010

Gruppenausstellung April 2010
Apr 2010

Gruppenausstellung Januar 2010
Mar 2010

Exhibition list

Solo Exhibitions

2023

"Entre la forma y el vacío", ON Art Space, Madrid, Spain

2019

"Wood Anima", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2015

"The Wood Hunter", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2012

galerie t, Düsseldorf, Germany

2011

Little Buddha Gallery, Barcelona, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2023

"Private Choice", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2022

"Story #7", KhaOs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2021

"Morceaux Choisis", Galerie Anthony Roth, Paris, France

2021

"Kunstessenzen XXIV", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2018

"Forma y Materia", M.A.arte contemporáneo, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Vita

Marc Sparfel is a hunter-gatherer of the twenty-first century. He breathes new life into pieces of wood and old furniture that he collects on the streets of Barcelona. The city is Sparfel's urban forest, where he collects the wooden objects sprouting from the asphalt and then transforms them into archaic creatures and animal masks in his workshop. This process is always intuitive.

Over the years, Marc Sparfel has also turned more and more to the experimental abstraction of his animal creatures. His starting point is the combination of two wooden panels, from which the rest of the work emerges in a play of open and closed space, interweaving and disentangling, weight and counterweight.

Marc Sparfel lives and works in Barcelona.

Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain

1972

Born in Morlaix, France

1997

Studied Visual Communication with a focus on photography, drawing and art history at the art academy in Orléans, France

1999

Works in the field of stage design, France

Move to Barcelona, Spain

Press

Marc Sparfel crafts animated sculptures by repurposing time-worn furniture

Publications

Marc Sparfel: The Wood Hunter

84 pages, 66 figures

Berlin 2015, 15 €