Anselmo Fox

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Anselmo Fox (born April 23, 1964 in Mendrisio ) is a Swiss artist. He deals with sculpture, installation, digital media, drawing, as well as with aesthetic theory.

Life

Fox studied Art & Design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and at the Basel School of Design and Art from 1985 to 1990 . From 1992 to 1994 he studied at the Lucerne Jazz School and in 1994 culture and art and science at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In 1990 he won the Aargau canton award , and then in 1991 the Landis & Gyr Society (Switzerland) award in connection with a stay in Cairo.

In 2008 and 2009 he did a lectureship at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Anselmo Fox lives and works in Berlin. He has been exhibiting in Germany and Switzerland since 1991.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

1983
  • Gallery artists suggest gallery in Lenzburg, Switzerland
1999
  • Vogelfrei III, Darmstadt Garden Biennale, Germany, catalog
  • Salon, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland, catalog
2001
  • Don't make the opening too narrow, Museum Bruder Klaus Sachseln , Sachseln, Switzerland, catalog
  • EnergieStationen, Dreieich Art Days, Stadtgalerie Dreieich-Sprendlingen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, catalog
  • Klanggarten - Vogelfrei IV, Darmstadt Garden Biennale, Germany, catalog
2002
  • Wächserne Identitäten, The figural wax sculpture at the end of the 20th century, Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin, Germany, catalog
2004
  • The Kiss, German Hygiene Museum , Dresden
  • La Bocca Della Verità, (L. Bourgeois, E. Cucchi, G. Dokoupil, S. Francis, J. Immendorf, T. Ullrich), (catalog), Kunstverein Salzdetfurth near Hildesheim, Germany
2005
2006
  • Home flicker - excursion to a foreign home, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Luzern , Switzerland
  • Inner Worlds - The Inner World, art: raum Sylt Quelle Science Summer 2006 in cooperation with the University of Hamburg for the Sigmund Freud Year 2006, Germany
2007
  • Selection 07, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland
  • Von der Liebe, Kunstverein Tiergarten Galerie Nord, Berlin
2009
2010
2011
  • For God's sake, art in dialogue with religion, Willisau city mill, Switzerland
2014
  • Catch of the year 14, Zurich
  • Trudelhaus. Model and Utopia, Baden, Switzerland

literature

  • Goller, Mirjam: Tongue of Art. The photo portraits La lingua della lingua by Anselmo Fox, (with notes on Stelarcs Extra Ear and Wafaa Bilal's third eye). In www.citysharing.ch, 2011
  • Plurale-Redaktion: anesthesia - on the cover picture Famous heads by Anselmo Fox. In: Anesthesia - Plurals. Journal for Thought Versions 8 (2009)
  • Goller, Mirjam: Condensation. How in the art of the sculptor Anselmo Fox the poetic is twisted, turned and pointed. In: Fabian, Jeanette (Ed.): Poetry intermedial. Frankfurt / M. 2009 [in press]
  • Müller, Olaf: Inner Worlds or the Drama of Self-Encounter. In: home bound - on the (in) housing of human life (catalog). Edited by the Kunst: raum sylt quelle foundation. Rantum / Sylt 2008, pp. 68–69
  • Ullrich, Jessica: In the valley of the mollusks. Speech at the opening of the exhibition of the same name by Anselmo Fox in the Kunstpanorama Luzern, Lucerne August 24, 2007. In: www.anselmofox.eu., 2007
  • Böhme, Gernot: The gentle art of the ephemeral. In: KALLISTRA - The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Theory 11 (2004), 25; [Japanese-German], 2004
  • Hartmann, Ralf F .: Waxing Identities. In: Sculpture 3 (2003), Washington DC, USA, 82f, 2003
  • Böhme, Hartmut: Explorations of the oral cavity - On the art of Anselmo Fox. In: Ziad Mahayni (Ed.): New Aesthetics. The atmospheric and the art. Wilhelm Fink Publishing House. Munich 2002, pp. 15-33; ( PDF ; 215 kB)
  • Ullrich, Jessica: The animal in the picture or the other's gaze. In: Nature - Plurals. Zeitschrift für Denkversionen 2 (2003), pp. 29–51 (esp. 41–44).
  • Ullrich, Jessica: Waxy bodies. Reimer publishing house. Berlin 2003 (esp. 40, 56).
  • Ullrich, Jessica: Wächserne Identitäten - Figurative wax sculpture at the end of the 20th century. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Georg Kolbe Museum. Berlin 2002, pp. 7-16.
  • Obermayr, Brigitte: Sculptural Trancendentalism. On sculpture and installation in Anselmo Fox's art. In: www.ARTMARGINS.com. 2002.
  • Benthien, Claudia: Dual tongues - The struggle for lust and power in the oral space. In: Benthien, Claudia / Wulf, Christoph (ed.): Body parts - A cultural anatomy. Reinbek near Hamburg 2001, pp. 104-132.
  • Macho, Thomas: From the inside (for Anselmo). Text for the exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2001. In: www.anselmofox.eu.

Articles and interviews

  • Tagesspiegel, Report on Animal Perspectives Part I (2009)
  • Berliner Zeitung, Report on Wächserne Identities, The figurative wax sculpture at the end of the 20th (2002)
  • FAZ, report on Vogelfrei III (1999)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal entry in Thieme-Becker. Retrieved April 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Fox, Anselmo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Mendrisio