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.

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.

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Artist portrait

Artist portrait
Marc Sparfel

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

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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
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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
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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