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Cora Fisch (* 1952 in Düsseldorf ) is an artist who mainly creates works of art from discarded fur clothing . She lives and works in Berlin.
biography
The Düsseldorf-born artist, who calls herself Cora Fisch, has lived mainly in Berlin since 1972. Since 1986 she has exhibited paintings, material pictures and installations at home and abroad, often in public spaces. In 1995 she began to deal with the material fur and the discarded fur coat as an “artistic challenge and means of expression”. In the following year, the “art concept 'Heat reserves warm up values change', the fur coat reduced to its 'origins' transports a lively aesthetic to added value and quality of life”.
On her homepage it is said that she “developed the concept of 'transarchaic art': the archaic phenomena of collective archetypes are brought into magical moments of power - with the anticipation of a universal energy - mythically, ontologically”.
In 1989 she received a Turkey scholarship from the Berlin Senator for Culture, then in 1990 a study visit to Turkey sponsored by the Berlin Senate.
906 Berlin artists from 33 countries applied for the competition "(Art in the Underground) Art instead of Advertising 1997: private" with the support of the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture. Cora Fisch was one of the thirty selected artists who were exhibited in the Alexanderplatz subway station , line 2 (January 23, 1997 to February 28, 1998).
In autumn 1999 a journalist for the Berliner Zeitung saw their three fur billboards on Invalidenstrasse in Berlin , near the Lehrter train station , labeled “Heat reserves in the course of changing values”. Not far from there he found Cora Fisch, sitting on a concrete plinth, who was about to cut a fur coat. When he was questioned, she said about her relationship with the now controversial material fur: “I'm not on either side. I don't want to criticize anything and I don't work for the fur industry either. I'm just exhibiting the material. I'm interested in the archaic. The railway advertises animals, but they have forbidden me to tear my furs in the train station. That would not match their art concept. But people are excited and call me. The walls have been hanging for a week and it's interesting that nobody has sprayed graffiti on them before. One woman even rubbed her forehead on the fur as if she wanted to disappear behind it. […] It was only different in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. People were shocked by the walls. In the east, fur is still a real value. Probably because the east is closer to Russia. "
For her exhibition “ Values Change ” in 2003 it was under the heading “ Fur Art ”: “In the controversial fur coat Cora Fisch sees a symbol of expanded perception and the associated change in our values. In her artistic process, she tracks down history and stories about people, creatures and value. The strong emotion and sensuality associated with fur opens up a largely unexplored ethical space. ”-“ Cora Fisch calls her fur pictures, fur sculptures and fur products “WertWandel | Warmth Objects” for short WWWG. The works of art can be touched and in turn touch ”.
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In 2010 she brought about sixty "completely ailing, mottled and abandoned fur coats" to the 17th International Sculptor Workshop at the Katzow Sculpture Park in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ("Katzowertewelte"), separated them there and freed them "from everything human" (food, Buttons and pockets) and covered a 4.60 meter high wooden frame, padded and secured with wire mesh. After two years the work was finally left to rot by the artist.
In an art project in 2014, a floor sculpture (“ResonanzFELLd”) was created on the banks of the Peene River in Demmin's harbor to “ blossom in memory” of the mass suicides in Demmin after the war ended in 1945. About 5000 tulip bulbs, each with a piece of fur, were planted in the shape of a wave on an area of forty square meters.
Further solo exhibitions and activities (selection)
- 1985: The unleashed apple , Galerie Vollart, Berlin
- 1986: ballroom dancing , Berlin, Gallery of Grundkreditbank, BMW Pavilion
- 1993: Enemy , performance Rote Villa, Berlin-Friedrichshain
- 1995: Persians shaved , "a fictional ritual dwelling made from Persian coats of the Berlin rubble women", Berlin, Heimatmuseum Neukölln, on the occasion of the inventory exhibition
- 2002–2003: KunstWohnen im WertWandel , Berlin, Bleibtreustraße
- 2003: WertWandelWärmeObjekte , IHK Neubrandenburg
- 2003: Pelzstromland. Feel what is . Reservoir VII, Great Water Storage Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, Ueberfluss
- 2005: Berlin Cathedral at the Lustgarten / Mensch-Kreatur , four art devotions with values change and warmth objects, art service of the Protestant church
- 2006: “The egg in fur” / Hommage à Meret Oppenheim , Easter installation and edition in the Guggenheim Foundation's museum shop
- 2009: The crazy fur - house ban , Kunstscheune, Sculpture Park Katzow
- 2012: Fell im Feld , Kunsthalle Wrodow
- 2015: ResonanzFELLd , fur art action, Demmin
- 2015: WILD , Kunstscheune, Sculpture Park Katzow
- 2018: The squaring of fur , sculpture installation, Gallery Z22 (White Cube), Berlin
In the period from 1987 to 2007, in addition to her solo exhibitions, she took part in over 20 group exhibitions.
See also
Web links
- Homepage Cora Fisch . Last accessed April 6, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Homepage Cora Fisch. Last accessed June 20, 2018.
- ^ New Society for Fine Arts: (Art in the Underground) Art instead of advertising 1997: private . Last accessed April 8, 2018.
- ↑ Andreas Schäfer: Hello, are you Ms. Cora Fisch? In: Berliner Zeitung , October 20, 1999.
- ↑ Cora Fisch - Fur Art . Postcard for the exhibition.
- ↑ Exhibition invitation on December 17, 1995, 3 p.m.
- ^ Andreas Beaugrand: Adbusting: A rhetorical design strategy handbook , Transcript Verlag, 2016, pp. 19-20. Last accessed April 7, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fish, Cora |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German object artist, painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |