Harald Fuchs (artist)

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Harald Fuchs (* 1954 in Rehau ) is a German artist. The focus of his artistic work is on the new media , with which he develops large-scale installations.

Spiriti Evocatti / Lampedusa , outdoor sculpture on Isola Bella 2014

Life

After studying graphic design 1974–1978 (graduation with diploma) at the University of Communication in Würzburg, Harald Fuchs studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in the “Free Graphics” class with Rudolf Schoofs from 1978–1982 . After teaching assignments at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , the European Art Academy Trier , the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg and the Art Academy Münster , he taught from 1992 to 1995 as a professor for "Free and Applied Drawing" at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences . Since 1995 he has been professor for "Drawing / Illustration and Mixed Media" in the Communication Design faculty at the University of Düsseldorf .

Since 1981 Harald Fuchs has undertaken numerous ethnological research trips to East and West Africa and Central America. The aim of knowledge is the centuries-old rituals of indigenous people and the places of worship of traditional medicine men. Fuchs also seeks out visual evidence - especially rock paintings - which, often difficult to access, have survived over thousands of years and provide information about everyday life and the beliefs in gods of the ancient peoples. The experiences, which he records in sketches and photographs on site, form the basis of his artistic conception in the connection and confrontation with modern scientific experiments and findings. Harald Fuchs is in close contact with archaeological museums and natural science institutes. However, he also enters into theoretical discourse with representatives of the various specialist disciplines - for example in publications and discussion forums. Harald Fuchs has lived in Cologne since 1986.

Awards

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In his decidedly theatrical confrontations between the aesthetics of nature and aesthetics of science, Harald Fuchs simulates models of truth and probability that he derives primarily from natural science, but also from psychology. The central theme of these installations, objects and photographic works is the relationship between faith and (natural) science and the replacement of traditional rites and their fetishes with the anonymous research laboratories of our day. His contributions deal with the power of religions, the controllability of the world and the dangers of progress still linked to social and political developments. By recapitulating episodes of the history of science and individual experiments, Harald Fuchs questions the responsibility of the natural scientist and his influence on history.

Since the late 1970s, Harald Fuchs has been questioning the present using subjective artistic means, based on the past and on the basis of objective scientific experiments. His media are first of all performance and painting and drawing, which he presents in large formats with gestures, restrained colors and on the border between abstraction and object. Just a few years later, his focus shifts to installation and photography, at the same time he creates an atmospherically dense course, often through darkening. The productions appear elaborate and complex, evoke labyrinthine structures with reflections and sometimes include sound in addition to the moving image. In fact, Harald Fuchs uses the simplest “classic” laboratory equipment (flasks, tubes, test tubes, Petri dishes), light equipment and reflective surfaces and, depending on the intention, adds prehistoric evidence (e.g. hand axes, vessels) and animal fragments that seem to have cultic references close. In addition to projector projections, he has been using overhead projectors since 1985, which have something nostalgic about them. Sometimes he works with large projections, for example when he projects huge image montages of parts of the body of various insects, which can still be animated, onto the wall and shows microorganisms. The exhibition space also becomes a showcase, some of which can actually only be seen from the outside.

Recently, Harald Fuchs has created several spatially separate stations between object and installation for individual exhibitions, which revolve around a central theme in an associative manner: While he was in the Forum for Photography in Cologne in 2012, he discussed the genocide in Rwanda and the country's attempt to establish structures through elections to create, he questioned in 2015 at the LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn its very own tasks of archaeological activity, collecting and exhibiting.

In addition, Harald Fuchs creates large-format color photographs that show details of his staging, abstracted by means of color filters, perspective and section, and once again bring together beauty and horror, belief and uncertainty through the incomprehensible of progress. Since 2008, Fuchs has also been involved in contemporary theater productions (stage, video, light, sound). With his oeuvre he is one of the most important representatives of media art and the pioneers of an art in the context of scientific research.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions / installations:

  • 1981: Airport Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1982: Art Association Offenbach
  • 1983: Kunsthalle Tübingen
  • 1989: Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
  • 1992: Artothek Cologne
  • 1992: Spirit Square Center for The Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
  • 1993: Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
  • 1994: Wewerka Pavilion, Münster
  • 1995: Kunstverein Weißensee, Berlin
  • 1997: Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Switzerland
  • 1998: Trinity Church, Cologne
  • 1999: The Landmark Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States
  • 1999: Museum Kloster Bentlage
  • 1999: Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
  • 2001: Kunstverein Ulm
  • 2002: DASA Museum, Dortmund
  • 2003: Rehau exhibition hall
  • 2003: Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
  • 2004, 2008, 2014: Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore, Italy
  • 2006: Museo Palazzo Tornielli, Ameno, Italy
  • 2007: Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau
  • 2008: Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne
  • 2008, 2012: Forum for Photography, Cologne
  • 2009: Monday Foundation for Fine Arts, Bonn
  • 2009: ERES Foundation, Art and Science, Munich
  • 2011: Artists' Association Malkasten , Düsseldorf
  • 2012: Galleria Allegretti Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
  • 2013: Gallery of the City of Brühl
  • 2015: LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn
  • 2016: house 34A, Bad Bentheim
  • 2016: Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
  • 2016: Galerie Münsterland eV, Emsdetten
  • 2016: LandesMuseum Bonn, Bonn
  • 2016: Theater der Keller, Cologne
  • 2017: Projection Biennale ("lichtsicht 6"), Bad Rothenfelde
  • 2018: Museo Manzoniano, Lesa, Italy
  • 2018: Villa Nigra, Miasino, Italy
  • 2019: Museum Goch, Goch

Participation in exhibitions with separate installations:

  • 1996: "Happy End", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1997: "Animaux et animaux", Museum zu Allerheiligen / Kunstverein Schaffhausen
  • 1998: "Gen-Welten", art and exhibition hall of the FRG, Bonn
  • 2001: "Under the Skin", Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
  • 2005: "Fraktale IV", Palace of the Republic, Berlin
  • 2007: “Miracles over miracles”, Kunsthalle Erfurt
  • 2010: "IN3", Basel
  • 2012: "Made in China", Museum for Applied Arts, Cologne

Works in public collections

  • Foreign Office, Bonn / Berlin
  • LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn
  • DASA Museum, Dortmund
  • State Environment Agency, Hagen (art in architecture)
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • DKV insurance, Cologne (art in architecture)
  • Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
  • ERES Foundation, Art and Science, Munich

Publications

  • Harald Fuchs - drawing, etching, artistic actions, projects Künstlerbund Tübingen, 1980, text: Helmut Hornbogen
  • Harald Fuchs - classification, Airport Gallery Frankfurt / Main and Kunstverein Offenbach eV, 1982, text: Eckhard Nordhofen
  • Harald Fuchs - Four Energy Projects, Kunsthalle Tübingen, 1983, Text: Utz Jeggle
  • Harald Fuchs - Reality of the Present, Werkstattgalerie, 1983, Text: Timm Starl, Frankfurt / Main
  • New visionary projects - Harald Fuchs / Leonardo da Vinci Galerie am Haagtor, 1983, Interview Rudolf Greiner - Harald Fuchs, Tübingen
  • Harald Fuchs - The structural superiority, Galerie Ralph Kleinsimlinghaus, Düsseldorf, 1987, text: Friedemann Malsch, Düsseldorf
  • Harald Fuchs - Following the course of a beautiful animal De Gele Rijder, Arnheim 1989
  • Harald Fuchs - Das verlorene Wissen / The Lost Knowledge Wewerka Pavillon, Münster, 1994, texts: Manfred Schneckenburger, Klaus Hausen, Piet Meyer, SD Sauerbier
  • Harald Fuchs - Critical Mass “Hermann Claasen Prize” for photography and media art, Cologne, 1997, texts: Manfred Schneckenburger, Siegfried Zielinski
  • Harald Fuchs - in vitro, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 1999, texts: Martin Hentschel, Edith Decker-Phillips, Martin Henatsch
  • An Allegory of Perpetual Evolution - Projection Installation by Harald Fuchs Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 2000, texts: Ken Bloom, Katherine Hayles, Harald Fuchs
  • Harald Fuchs - Floating particles in glass calabashes, Kunstverein Ulm, 2001, texts: Brigitte Hausmann, Eckhart Gillen
  • Harald Fuchs - places of a higher order Galerie Mirko Mayer, Cologne, 2001, text: Thomas Donga
  • Harald Fuchs - Atomic scratches on the forehead of the Madonna, DASA-Galerie, Dortmund, 2002, text: Gerhard Kilger, Eckhart Gillen
  • Harald Fuchs - REHAU-ART home game, Rehau, 2003, texts: Jobst Wagner, Hans Rudolf Reust
  • Harald Fuchs - Perforierte Parallelwelten / Perforated Parallel Worlds Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Salon Verlag, Cologne 2003, Texts: Gerhard Finckh, Interview Ute Riese - Harald Fuchs
  • Harald Fuchs - The paradox of Schrödinger's cat (or how do you wash your dishes with dirty dish water ...)
  • Museum Schloss Moyland, 2007, texts: Ernst Peter Fischer, Manfred Schneckenburger
  • Harald Fuchs - The Hybrid Controversy - and the Drums of Malaga Fuhrwerkswaage, Kunstraum Köln, 2008, text: Manfred Schneckenburger
  • Harald Fuchs - Dance through the Morpho Room, ERES Foundation, Munich / Art and Science, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2010, text: Ernst Peter Fischer
  • Harald Fuchs - VOTE / VOTE Forum for Photography, Cologne, 2012, Text: Thomas Appel
  • Harald Fuchs - Photography and Installations in Progress / Das Now takes 30 milliseconds, LandesMuseum Bonn / Verlag Kettler, Bonn, 2015, texts: Alexandra Käss, Thomas Hirsch, Thomas Appel

Web links

Commons : Harald Fuchs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.haraldfuchs.com
  2. ↑ http://pbsa.hs-duesseldorf.de/lösungen/fuchs
  3. ↑ Ute Riese, exhibition cat. Leverkusen / Cologne 2003, p. 8; Exhibition cat. Bonn / Dortmund 2015, p. 116
  4. ↑ Thomas Hirsch, on the exhibition at the artists' association Malkasten Düsseldorf, in: biograph, Düsseldorf, August 2011, p. 53
  5. ↑ Cf. A Cave for Plato, Montag Stiftung Bildende Kunst, Kunstprojekt Villa Ingenohl, Bonn, April-June 2009
  6. ^ Helga Meister, Kunstforum International on the exhibition at Museum Morsbroich, in: Kunstforum International, Ruppichteroth, vol. 186, June-July 2007
  7. ↑ See exhibition “Four Energy Projects”: Energy Images, Reality of the Present / Gravity Projects, German Emotions, Classification, Kunsthalle Tübingen 1983
  8. ↑ So u. a. in the exhibition Happy End, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 1996
  9. ^ So in the Wewerka Pavilion, Münster 1994
  10. ↑ See exhibition catalog Gal. Mirko Mayer, Cologne 2001
  11. ↑ So u. a. in the theater “Der Keller” for the play “We love and know nothing”, Cologne 2016
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehau