Marc Wassmer

Clenching a fist and looking through the sun:
in this gesture lies a tiny spark of light, a metaphor for a life dedicated to art, music, movement, and matter. This spark traces the thread of a journey where body and mind unite to create a language, a secret writing between the tangible and the immaterial.”

A multifaceted musician, he plays the guitar and the transverse flute, and sings opera arias, lieder, and musical theater tunes as a bass-baritone. A passionate bass-baritone, he follows with admiration the career of Cecilia Bartoli, whose exacting standards and artistic freedom nourish his own relationship with the voice. In parallel, he composes contemporary and pop instrumental works, where breath and sonic architecture engage in dialogue. A dancer trained in classical rigor and modern expression, he has captured the grammar of gesture, which he conveys through sculpture, painting, and photography.

In the fine arts, sculpture, acrylic painting, video, stained glass, and artistic ironwork have offered him a multiplicity of languages to express what words cannot grasp. A cameraman and director, he immortalizes performances and artists’ journeys, mastering audio recording, mixing, mastering, graphic design, and music videos. His expertise also extends to architectural design, watchmaking, jewelry design—rings, earrings, brooches—and the original creation of shoes and clothing.

An artisan of bronze, wood, and stone, a meticulous jeweler, creative watchmaker, textile designer, and digital artist, he also works with 3D printing, CNC, and laser cutters and engravers, blending traditional craftsmanship with contemporary technologies. His experience in graphic design, acquired in specialized printing houses, has further enriched his perspective on the precision and rigor of the artistic gesture.

His journey took him to the United States, exploring performance art and happenings in the shadow of John Cage—a foundational experience. A passionate guardian of the Swiss Sewing Machine and Unusual Objects Museum in Fribourg, he is both the curator and an actor in this theater of industrial memory.

His major influences—Henry Moore, Stanulis, and sound meditation stemming from fifty years of practicing Sri Aurobindo’s yoga, nourished by the teachings of the Mother and the spirit of Auroville—infuse his creations with singular depth and poetry. In nature, during inspiring walks, just as in front of a fridge inviting culinary improvisation, he cultivates this art of connecting the ephemeral and the permanent, the object and its meaning.

Each work, whether a bronze sculpture, a digital photo-sculpture, stained glass or ironwork, a timepiece or a piece of jewelry, a painting, a clothing design or a sound composition, unfolds a semiology of body and matter, a language made of inspired gestures, signs, and emotions transfigured by his vision.”