Guillermo Deisler

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Guillermo Deisler (born June 15, 1940 in Santiago de Chile ; † October 21, 1995 in Halle (Saale) ) was a Chilean-German set designer , mail artist and author of visual poetry .

Guillermo Deisler's grave (2010)

Life

Guillermo Deisler was born in Chile to a family from Prussia . He studied theater graphics and set design at the University of Santiago de Chile. From 1967 to 1973 he was assistant and lecturer in graphics at the Universidad de Chile in Antofagasta . After the military coup on September 11, 1973, he was arrested and interned in Antofagasta prison. His friend Gregorio Berchenko managed to get an exit visa from the French embassy . After spending a few months in exile in France, he discovered that there was no livelihood for him and his family in France. Like so many other Chilean refugees, he decided to enter the GDR . There he was immediately imprisoned in Cottbus and interrogated until a director who knew him as a set designer was released from prison. After his imprisonment, he was involved in a theater production by this director as a set designer before he was " exiled to Bulgaria " as a quota refugee due to an agreement between the GDR, ČSSR , Bulgaria and other socialist states . Deisler lived there with his wife and four children until 1986. In 1986 he and part of his family returned to the GDR. Shortly before their political end, he received the citizenship he wanted there . Deisler lived in Halle / Saale until his untimely death, where he worked at the opera house .

He died in 1995 of complications from cancer . His collection of over 5,000 Mail Art works is now in the archive of the art collection of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin .

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Guillermo Deisler was intensely involved with experimental and visual poetry throughout his life. From 1963 to 1973 he published the periodical for poetry and graphics "mimbre" in more than 50 titles. These included international anthologies on visual poetry. In 1987 he founded the artist and mail art project UNI / vers (;) , which he edited until his death in 1995 and which appeared in a total of 35 issues (each issue consisted of a folder of original graphics by international artists).

In 1988 he organized the Visual Poetry exhibition with Karla Sachse , for which a catalog was also published. Two years later, at the same time as the end of the GDR, he and Jörg Kowalski gave the anthology wortBILD. Visual poetry in the GDR . There are works by u. a. Carlfriedrich Claus , Volker Dietzel , Elke Erb , Lutz Fleischer , Joseph W. Huber , Kito Lorenc , Bert Papenfuß-Gorek , Robert Rehfeldt , Karla Sachse, Horst Sübers , Rainer Schedlinski , Valeri Scherstjanoi , Klaus Sobolewski , Ulrich Tarlatt , Michael Wüstefeld .

In all the countries in which he lived, Deisler published original graphic artist books in editions of three to over 50 copies, including GRRR (1969 in Chile), le cerveaux (1975 in France) packaging poetry (1977 in Bulgaria) and make-up (1988 in the GDR).

Homage · Exhibition

1996 appeared a by the Chilean artist Hans Braumüller edited, in memory of the longtime publisher also UNI / vers (;) dubbed Artist magazine with the subtitle A TRIBUTE TO Guillermo Deisler to which the majority of writers and artists represented in issues 1 to 35 with honored work contributed. 2001 appeared in the edition YE by Theo Breuer published art box YE N ° 8 as HOMMAGE À Guillermo Deisler with original graphic work of 49 contributors who (also 2001), entitled Omaggio à Guillermo Deisler in the gallery Il Gabbiano in La Spezia was issued .

As part of the exhibition Subversive Practices. Art under conditions of political repression in the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart 2009, Deisler's work was honored as well as in the two exhibitions Homenaje a Guillermo Deisler. Graphics, collage, painting, book objects , which took place in the Chilean Embassy in Berlin in the summer of 2009, and Guillermo Deisler (1940–1995): For the theater ... figurines, stage sets, poster designs (2010 in the Kunstvereinsgalerie der Oper Halle).

Publication (selection)

  • UNI / vers (;) · PEACE DREAM PROJECT · VISUAL POETRY and experimental . Artist magazine. 35 issues. Halle / Saale 1987–1995.
  • word IMAGE . Visual poetry in the GDR . With Jörg Kowalski. Halle / Saale u. a. 1990.

literature

  • Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe (ed.): Mail Art: Eastern Europe in the international network . Congress documentation. Schwerin 1996.
  • Support group of writers in Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): Guillermo Deisler. Give signs. Hallesche Autorhefte 18. Halle / Saale 1998.
  • Francisca Garcia B. (Ed.): DEISLER: Exclusivo Hecho para Usted! Exposición, catálogo y mesas redondas, Valparaíso 2007.
  • Karla Sachse: Guillermo Deisler. In: Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe (ed.): Mail Art: Eastern Europe in the international network. Exhibition catalog. Schwerin 1996, pp. 119-121.
  • Catherine Tahmin: Drowning swimming pool. Poems with drawings from the unpublished sketchbooks by Guillermo Deisler. Corvinus Press, Berlin 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Subversive Practices. Art under conditions of political repression (60s – 80s / South America / Europe). In: wkv-stuttgart.de. Württembergischer Kunstverein, 2009, accessed on May 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Deisler, Guillermo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Chilean artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1995
Place of death Halle (Saale)