Biography

Guggi's first passion since childhood has been painting. He was a founding member of the cult band Virgin Prunes, notorious for their performative spectaculars on the European underground, where his main contribution was a visual one. He continued to paint throughout his years in the band, and parted company with them in 1984 to dedicate himself solely to painting, and later sculpture, which he first exhibited in the Shafrazi Gallery on New York in 2001.

Since the early 1990s Guggi's work has continued to explore the depiction of common everyday objects. With a focus on repetition and abstraction, Guggi's signature motifs of bowls and other vessels are transformed and freed of their context often articulated with a deceptive simplicity that heightens their stillness and meditative presence.

Guggi has exhibited since the 1990's. Most recently he has had solo exhibitions in Château La Coste, Le-Puy-Sainte-Réparade (2023), the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2022), Galierie 75 Fauourg/Galerie Enrico Navarra (2021), Kerlin Gallery (2019), Galerie Yoshi Tokyo (2019), Arcane Space LA (2019) and New York (2016). Also in Monaco, Buenos Aires, Berlin, London, Cape Town, Iceland and Dublin.

Guggi's work is held in the public collections of the Irish Museumof Modern Art, Dublin; Château La Coste, Le-Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France; and Akureyri Municipal Art Gallery, Iceland; Embassy Gardens, London; and Buyuk Efes Izmir Sculpture Park, Izmir, turkey.
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He was one of ten siblings. Trevor Rowen, one of his brothers, was with him in the punk band The Virgin Prunes.

Has 5 sons. The eldest is engineer Moses Rowen. With ex-wife German artist Sibylle Ungers has the other 4: Noah, actors Elijah Rowen and Cazz Rowen, and Gideon Rowen.