Christiaan Tonnis

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Christiaan Tonnis photographed by Peter Braunholz , 2012

Christiaan Dirk Tonnis (born June 5, 1956 in Saarbrücken ) is a German painter , draftsman , video artist and author . From 1980 to 1985 he studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main with Dieter Lincke and Herbert Heckmann , lives and works in Frankfurt am Main .

life and work

Female Warrior # 14 "Extinction", pencil and colored pencil on paper, 1981
Ludwig Wittgenstein , pencil on cardboard, 1985
The Bible - Solomon - Song of Songs 8, 6-7 , acrylic, rich pale gold and applications on linen, 1997
God gave us another Gift # 9 - Blue Flower - Novalis , photography, 2013

Christiaan Tonnis' father Dirk Tonnis (April 13, 1914 - August 23, 1985) was a producer of animated films at Toonder Studios in Amsterdam . There he also wrote the sequel story "Detective Kommer" as an author. He later moved to Telesaar and the Saarländischer Rundfunk as program director .

Tonnis' preoccupation with the literature of psychopathology and psychoanalysis is reflected in his early work. These are graphic representations of various clinical pictures such as B. the catatonic rigidity or postpartum psychosis , in which he z. T. "Wires, seams, masks, partial masks - they are sometimes barely visible, they seem so identical to the physiognomy " - over the portraits. From 1986 Tonnis took a painterly position: The new portrait paintings by writers and philosophers also primarily reflect the inner feelings of the protagonists .

This is followed by a series of collages in which cats' heads - placed on the bodies of women - look "sad or dreamy" at the viewer. These are specific portraits attached to people. B. is subtitled with Virginia Woolf , another with Alice Miller .

Participation in the performance "Who let the dogs out, Edith?" During the "Summer Atelier 2009" in the Kunstverein Familie Montez , Frankfurt am Main. "The starting material is Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's staging of Heinrich von Kleist's drama ' Penthesilea ', shown in Frankfurt in 1988 , a monologue by the great actress Edith Clever ."

With the depiction of a golden cross over a black and violet background - divided into individual pixels and painted on the wall - Tonnis is one of 36 international artists who designed the 4.5 meter high, tiled "Pixelkitchen" room in the Günes Theater Frankfurt in January 2013 and thereby bring the digital into the analog world. All "artistic works are glued, painted and nailed to the walls."

Video

Participation in “Road Movie”, a Frieze Film 2008 production for the Frieze Art Fair and Channel 4 , London . "Road Movie" is a 4-part, multiple film experiment curated by Neville Wakefield - compiled from several contributions and produced on YouTube - which refers to the novel The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy .

Starting in 2009, 113 films will be made about exhibition preparations and vernissages as well as artist interviews for the Montez family art association. A series of 14 film works documents the IV. Performance Day 2018 in OST> STERN Frankfurt. Participating artists were u. a. VestAndPage , Yingmei Duan and Mariola Brillowska .

Exhibitions and festivals (selection)

  • 1986: Christiaan Tonnis - drawings , Das Bilderhaus gallery, Frankfurt
  • 2008: Road Movie , Frieze Art Fair , London
  • 2008: Digital Fringe, 08th Melbourne Fringe Festival , Melbourne
  • 2008: Sanlun Yishu , Huajiadi Beili Wangjing, Beijing
  • 2009: Dream Worlds | CATWALK! , Frauenstein Castle , Mining am Inn
  • 2010: Christiaan Tonnis: Behind the Mirror , with a performance by Eva Moll, Klosterpresse, Frankfurt
  • 2011: Christiaan Tonnis: Thomas Bernhards Frost , Kunstverein Eulengasse, Frankfurt
  • 2012: Luminale 2012
  • 2012: Terremoto - Quake , by Nikolaus Alexander Nessler , with Christiaan Tonnis (film), Nico Rocznik (light) and Manuel Stein (sound), Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
  • 2013: Pay far more attention to roots , Kunstverein Familie Montez and Der Laden / Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
  • 2014: Les Fleurs du Mal - Dithering Cities , Luminale 2014
  • 2015: Kunst Messe Frankfurt 15 , Kunstverein Familie Montez, Hall 1.2, Messe Frankfurt GmbH , Frankfurt
  • 2017: Supermarket 2017 - Stockholm Independent Art Fair , Stockholm
  • 2018: Quinceañera , Kunstverein Eulengasse, Frankfurt
  • 2018: Supermarket Art Fair , Stockholm
  • 2019: Latitudes Festival , Santa Cruz de la Sierra
  • 2019: Christiaan Tonnis - Screening Montez 2009-14 , Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt
  • 2019: Open / Occupy II , Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin
  • 2020: Participate NOW! , EULENGASSE @ Platforms Project Independent Art Fair Athens - Platforms Project NET

Curated exhibitions

  • 2011 Shamanism from the Great Altai , Kunstverein Eulengasse, Frankfurt
  • 2011 Meg Cebula. Mystery and Beauty , Kunstverein Eulengasse, Frankfurt

bibliography

  • Christiaan Tonnis - Illness as a Symbol , Pro Business Verlag, Berlin 2006, ed. 1, ISBN 978-3-939533-34-4
  • Christiaan Tonnis - Everyone we know , Sketchbook Project 3, cat. No. 135.8-5, Brooklyn Art Library 2009, New York
  • 5 + 5 = 1! , DVD-Video (25 min.), By Christiaan Tonnis, Oswald-von-Nell-Breuning-Schule , City of Rödermark (ed.), Archive of the City of Rödermark 2011
  • The Hecht Family - A Memory , 2017, DVD-Video, by Christiaan Tonnis, Oswald-von-Nell-Breuning-Schule, Stadt Rödermark (publisher), in the archive of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt
  • Christiaan Tonnis - Texts and Writings 1986 - 2017 , epubli Verlag Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7450-3054-9
  • ROT - Axel Dielmann-Verlag , Frankfurt 2013, pp. 15-16, 145, 148-149, 15, ISBN 978-3-86638-180-3
  • Montez in Exile - Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt 2014, by Kerstin Krone-Bayer and Hanna Rut Neidhardt (eds.), ISBN 978-3-00-045918-4
  • Christiaan Tonnis - The Leipzig cotton spinning mill , epubli Verlag Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7450-7655-4
  • Christiaan Tonnis - The graphic work , epubli Verlag Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7450-6724-8
  • Christiaan Tonnis - Videos 2009 - 2017, Kunstverein Familie Montez, catalog raisonné , epubli Verlag Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7450-0580-6
  • Christiaan Tonnis - Copy and Paste , epubli Verlag Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7450-9175-5
  • Christiaan Tonnis - Catwalk: Die Collagen , epubli Verlag Berlin, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7502-5286-8

Web links

Commons : Christiaan Tonnis  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ^ Local family book Memelland - Dirk Tonnis , online-ofb.de
  2. ↑ Jan-Willem de Vries, The History of Toonder Studios, Volume 6: International Success ( Memento of April 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), p. 17 and 22, Uitgeverij Cliché, Maarssen , Netherlands, 2018 (publication in Dutch)
  3. ^ Hans G. Kresse - Chapter 'Post-war comics' , lambiek.net
  4. ↑ Kai Hoffmann, Pretty Woman's Face as Patchwork , Frankfurter Rundschau , February 20, 1986
  5. ^ The face behind the face , Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung , October 20, 1986
  6. ↑ Kai Hoffmann, face part as a mask , Frankfurter Rundschau, August 30, 1990
  7. ↑ a b Solveig Frick, No fear of Virginia Woolf , Frankfurter Rundschau, No. 86, p. 31, April 13, 2007
  8. ↑ Christoph Schütte, Art with Family Connection , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , R4 Culture, June 21, 2009
  9. ^ "Good is what pleases" in the Kunstverein Familie Montez eV " ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), kulturportal.hessen.de, August 29, 2009
  10. ^ Antonia Troschke, Menu with Everything , Frankfurter Rundschau, No. 20, RS / B7, January 24, 2013
  11. ↑ Amelie Persson, Pixelkitchen ( Memento from December 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), schirn-magazin.de, January 25, 2013
  12. ↑ My Journey My Memory My Soul , FriezeFilm2008's Channel , YouTube video, July 26, 2008
  13. ↑ Frieze goes YouTube , Deutsche Bank ArtMag, issue 51, October 2008
  14. ^ Frieze Film 2008 ( Memento from December 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Frieze Foundation, London, 2008
  15. ↑ Christiaan Tonnis: Thomas Bernhards Frost, Eulengasse, Frankfurt , kunstaspekte.de
  16. ↑ Luminale - Biennale of Light Culture ( Memento from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), light–building.messefrankfurt.com, 2014, p. 21
  17. ↑ Supermarket 2017 - Stockholm Independent Art Fair kunstaspekte.de, accessed on March 23, 2017
  18. ↑ Quinceañera , artfacts.net
  19. ↑ Supermarket Art Fair - Talks and Performances, presented by Kunstverein Familie Montez supermarketartfair.com, accessed on April 14, 2018
  20. ^ Open / Occupy II , artfacts.net
  21. ↑ Participate NOW! EULENGASSE @ Platforms Project Independent Art Fair Athens - Platforms Project NET , kunstaspekte.art
  22. ↑ Алтайские художники шаманят в Германии ( memento of April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Контрабанда, September 12, 2011
  23. ↑ Meg Cebula , Journal Frankfurt , No. 13, page 76, May 2011
  24. ↑ Meg Cebula. Mystery and Beauty kunstaspekte.de, May 27, 2011
  25. ↑ Christine Ziesecke, Summer of Culture on Canvas , Offenbach-Post , op-online.de, October 29, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Tonnis, Christiaan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tonnis, Christiaan Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, video artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken