Johannes Pfeiffer (artist)

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Johannes Pfeiffer (* 1954 in Ulm ) is a German country art artist and installation artist . He works in Berlin, Ulm, Tübingen and Turin.

Life

After studying business administration at the Free University of Berlin, Pfeiffer went to Italy in 1980 and studied classical sculpture at the Accademia delle Belle Arti , first in Rome and then in Carrara with a focus on stone carving. Building on this training, he continued to work with other materials and began his development as a land art and installation artist in 1985 with a land art project in Provence.

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In 1990 , a sculpture set up on the art path of the University of Ulm with three turret-like towering upward and tensioned walls made of bricks, which are individually attached to steel cables

Pfeiffer began his artistic work with figurative processing of marble. The Landart project "Triangulation I" or "camminando si apre cammino" in Figanières (newspaper article, France 1985, Landart project) in Provence was for Pfeiffer the liberation from stone carving and the liberation from being restricted by the specifications of hardness, size and shape and severity of the block. This work consisted of 100 tons of field stones , the so-called pierres de restanque (literature: see below). It was the Tuscan brick le mezzane and the proximity to the Leaning Tower of Pisa that evoked Pfeiffer's associations of unstable equilibrium, weightlessness and immateriality. Pfeiffer has never let go of this topic to this day. In his work, he deals with all facets of this topic.

His Landart projects represent, as triangulations, the measurement of the shape and size of the earth by laying a network of triangles in a figurative, symbolic and non-technical sense. This takes place in the sense of authentic experience of the world on site. Pfeiffer's installations with bricks and threads challenge the laws of gravity, like the walls of the installation "East-West" (spring 1989).

His works deal with the precarious equilibrium. The search for the essence of things determines his works, as the 'lyrical solution' for the Leaning Tower of Pisa shows most impressively. Every place, every space is an occasion to challenge gravity to transpose the material into the immaterial. An example of this is the work The Great Silence in Eberbach Monastery in the Rheingau from 1995, where Pfeiffer let 40 robinia trees glow in the dark of the hospital cellar of the Cistercian monastery. Pfeiffer uses light and threads, brick and steel, stone and wood as language to enter into a dialogue with the architecture.

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1996 The mysteries take place in the main train station, Estación Central in Montevideo
  • 1998 La fine della letargia, installation in the Italian embassy building in Berlin
  • 1999 Cuma 4000 - il mito della dimora, Parco archeologico of Cuma / Naples
  • 2000 Interface, Helmholtz Institute Munich
  • 2002 Inside view, Kunstverein Mannheim
  • 2004 In the river of time, Prenzlauer Berg water reservoir, Berlin
  • 2007 Naufragio, Casa degli Spiriti, Venice
  • 2007 El silenzio de las voces, Universidad Católica de Santiago de Chile
  • 2008 Phoenix, Bejing International Sculpture Exhibition, Beijing
  • 2009 Energy Fields - Triangulation VI, Clayarch Museum Gimhae, South Korea
  • 2010 Jenga - Oltre il mito, Villa Cavour, Santena, Turin
  • 2011 Investigations into death, Kunstverein Nördlingen , City Museum Nördlingen

literature

  • Marianello Marianelli: Un tessitore di fantasmi per la torre . In: La Nazione, July 28, 1991
  • Gottfried Knapp: The Ghost Forest . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 8, 1995
  • Josef Joffe: A wagon in Montevideo . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 14, 1996
  • Olga Gambari: Pfeiffer, visioni di un costruttore . In: La Repubblica, March 11, 1999
  • Christoph Henning: Exciting sculpture park in Chianti . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 23, 2006

Web links

Commons : Johannes Pfeiffer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Caius Burri and Karl Heinz Reisert: Ulm University Art Path . Ulm Art Foundation "Pro Arte", 1991, p. 194-197 .
  2. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. Triangulation I, Art-Thèmes. Ed- Art-Thèmes , France No. 32 1986.
  3. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. Triangulation I, ART GEANT A FIGANIERES. Ed- Var Matin , France Var Matin, October 17, 1985.
  4. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. A wagon in Montevideo, Art-Thèmes. Published by Süddeutsche Zeitung , Germany November 14, 1996.
  5. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. La soluzione lirica, the lyrical solution. Una proposta per salvare la Torre Pendente. Edited by the Goethe Institute , Turin. Turin 1990.
  6. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. Pisa_die lyrical solution - Schöner Wohnen 03 1992. Hrsg- Schöner Wohnen , Germany 1992.
  7. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. Pisa Plan Proposed. Ed- THE JOURNAL of ART , USA October 1991.
  8. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. Un tessitore di fantasmi la torre. Ed- La NAZIONE , Italy July 28, 1991.
  9. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. The leaning tower on the lifeline. Edited by Spiegel , Germany No. 16 1991.
  10. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. Legare la torre di Pisa. Edited by Pisa Stampa sera , Italy, Pisa_Stampa sera April 12, 1991.
  11. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. Edited by Pisa Stampa sera , I
  12. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. Published by Ost-West Schwäbische Zeitung , Germany, Ost-West Schwäbische Zeitung May 25, 1991.
  13. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. The difference is not that big. Published by Ost-West Schwäbische Zeitung , Germany, Ost-West Südwest Presse 05.1991.
  14. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. The great silence, the dark magic forest of Johannes Pfeiffer. Published by Wiesbadener Tagblatt , Germany Wiesbadener Tagblatt July 24, 1995.
  15. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. The great silence. Published by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Germany FAZ July 24, 1995.
  16. ↑ Johannes Pfeiffer. The great silence. the Geisterwald Hrsg- Süddeutsche Zeitung , Germany, Süddeutsche Zeitung Feuilleton August 8, 1995.
  17. ↑ Cellar & Art . In: art. The art magazine. 1995. H. 11. p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German land art and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm