Edgar Lissel

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Edgar Lissel (* 1965 in Northeim , Germany) is a visual artist.

Life

After professional experience as a typesetter and printing template manufacturer, Lissel studied communication design with a focus on photography at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

Edgar Lissel has been working as a visual artist since 1993. In his interdisciplinary projects, Edgar Lissel traces the tensions between natural science, art history, archeology and artistic intention and examines image processes and the ephemeral state of the image.

In his early work, Edgar Lissel used the camera obscura technology from 1993 to 1995 and turned a truck into a pinhole camera . With his pictures of architecture from Italian fascism and German National Socialism , he was invited to the 1996 Architecture Biennale in Venice. In other projects, he transformed entire living rooms (1995 to 1997) and museum showcases (1999 to 2002) into a camera obscura. In these works, the photograms of the objects in the camera mix with the image outside the pinhole camera. Edgar Lissel later investigated the direct effect of light on bacterial cultures . He used the phototactic ( phototaxis ) properties (the movement towards light) of the cyanobacteria for his artistic image production. For example in the Domus Aurea in Rome. He used bacteria, which were responsible for the decay of the frescoes there, for a new image process. Edgar Lissel has been using the body's own skin flora for his image production since 2004 . In collaboration with various scientists, body imprints are created by the bacteria on his skin surface, which are fixed on various nutrient media and linen materials.

The works of Lissel include a. in the collections National Gallery of Canada , Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Victoria & Albert Museum London, Museum der Moderne Salzburg , MUSA Museum on Demand - Collection of Contemporary Art of the City of Vienna.

Since 1998 Edgar Lissel has been teaching art and photography at various universities and colleges in Austria (2005–2009 University of Applied Arts Vienna ) and Germany, most recently in 2010 as a visiting professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. He lives in Vienna .

Publications

  • 2008 - "On the becoming and passing away of pictures - Edgar Lissel", Verlag Schlebrügge Vienna, ISBN 978-3-85160-139-8
  • 2000 - "Edgar Lissel, Raum / Rooms", EIKON special print # 5, Vienna
  • 1995 - “Illusion of Power”, Nazi buildings photographed with the camera obscura by Edgar Lissel, text by Dieter Bartetzko, AEDES Gallery Berlin

Awards and prizes (selection)

  • 2010 - Austrian State Scholarship for Artistic Photography
  • 2007 - Schober Prize of the DGPh
  • 2005 - Villa Massimo / Casa Baldi grant
  • 2004 - Marianne Brandt Prize
  • 2004 - mention spéciale, Prix Vevey Switzerland

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personal data
SURNAME Lissel, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Northeim , Germany