PARIS.- Following the deliberations of the Contemporary Drawing Prize’s committee, the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Foundation has announced the names of the three selected artists for the 2012 award. Marc Bauer was born in 1975 in Geneva. He lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Ecole Supérieur d’Art Visuel of Geneva and was in residence at the Rijksakademie of Amsterdam, then the Swiss Institute in Rome. In 2009, he showed in the exhibition “Laque” at the Frac Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand. In 2011, he had a solo show at ReMap 3, in Athens, “History of Masculinity III: The Great expectation of M. H.” Again in 2011, he was exhibited in group shows notably in “Le réel est inadmissible, d’ailleurs il n’existe pas” at the art centre of the Hangar à Bananes, Nantes and in the presentation of “Recent acquisitions of the Drawings Department” at the Centre Pompidou. He is represented by the galleries F