Iddo Markus 

b. 1979, Boston; lives and works in Haifa

Iddo Markus is an art curator and an artist engaged in diverse fields including: drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, video, installation, and photography. He is known for his series of miniature installations, featuring hundreds of paintings created over long periods, which were exhibited in Israel and around the world, and are in many collections. His works range from the local to the global. He shifts between different styles, media, and modes of display, which share a central axis: the compressed, intense, constantly shifting reality in which he lives and works.

 

His current works address the tension between the single iconic image and digital multiplicity, while referring to digi-textual theories and to contradictions between family photographs and online anonymity, between figuration and abstraction, and a great love for color as both material and form.

 

Markus works with materials that he collects from the street and the web, thereby connecting the personal and the general, and emphasizing their blurred boundaries in the image-ridden digital era.

 

According to the artist: ​"The idea for the truck came from my desire to choose a project which is still ongoing, which I felt was suitable to function as a giant in terms of coloration, and also an image with which I am already well familiar, so that I could work free and wild as in the studio, while meeting the deadline, without delays and without overthinking—just to flow with the format and the rhythm it dictates. The truck functions as an extension of the project entitled The Parade. In effect, it is yet another proposal for a series numbering hundreds of variations created from an old photograph of a parade of the Queen's guards that I found on the street."

Research for the project began as a formalistic reference to the generic, popular image of the British guard with much humor and frenzy, but it also addresses questions concerning the politics of color through uniforms (the use of color to identify a country or a nationality) and the erasure of the individual once he becomes a part of an army. On one side of the truck Markus depicted the guards moving forward, while on the other side they stand still, each in a different posture.

Studies Art at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York (2003–2004), the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel (2005–2008), and the University of Haifa (2011–2012).
His works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in Israel and around the world.

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For more information on the Parade project​