Charles Recher

Charles Recher (born February 8, 1950 in Fort Lauderdale , Florida , † January 26, 2017 ) was an American installation artist .

life and work

Recher's first public work, which was created in the early 1970s, was the film installation Pushing . More than 100 films and videos as well as various installations followed, funded a. a. through the Florida Cultural Consortium and the National Endowment for the Arts . His work was u. a. in the program Masters of the Avant-Garde of the Carpenter Center for the Arts of Harvard University presented.

Recher founded the Experimental Film-Video Program at Miami-Dade College , where he taught for fifteen years. He also gave guest lectures at the University of Havana and Harvard University.

Other works were u. a. the "Electrowave" bus , a bus that drove through the streets of South Beach with images of palm trees, waves, dancers and fields of seagrass projected from inside its windows; Volcano , a fire-breathing moving "volcano" more than three meters high; Face II , a video installation in a shop window; Bike , a bicycle with a movie projector operated by stepping on the pedals.

In 2005 he created the installation Cars & Fish with the composer Gustavo Matamoros for the Miami Performing Arts Center . Introduced by a procession of children disguised as swamp creatures, images of car and waterways were juxtaposed to the music of Matamoros on projection surfaces the size of a football field.

Recher's most recent work was Kwagh-hir , a documentary about the traditional Tiv theater in Nigeria.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ legacy.com , accessed April 6, 2017