Maximilian examiner

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Maximilian Prüfer (* 1986 in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria ) is a German conceptual artist .

For his versatile work, Prüfer often develops complex processes, for example he transfers the scales of butterflies onto paper (butterfly prints) or uses heat fields to induce swarms of flies to move in certain structures.

With the help of a technique he developed, the “nature antype”, Prüfer makes the finest traces of nature visible, for example traces of ants, flaps of the wings of moths or the impact of raindrops.

Career

Prüfer grew up in Germany and Portugal. He studied design and communication strategy at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and fine arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna , Italy. His works deal with topics of philosophy , politics, social philosophy , nature and natural phenomena.

Animal and track images

Maximilian Prüfer, documentation of ^ I - Snail Picture Traces of Snails, 2015, Naturantypie, 180 × 240 cm

For his trail images, Prüfer studies phenomena from nature and the behavior of animals, mostly insects. Through targeted manipulation of the environment or the animals themselves, he illustrates very basic needs and behaviors that all living beings show. The reaction of the animals, or their tracks, are often metaphorical for the behavior of people in relation to society.

Maximilian Prüfer, Detailaufnahme - Big Rain Picture I, Imprints of raindrops, 2015, Naturantypie, 140 × 270 cm

For example, snails become a symbol of a mass movement that only arises from the principle of energy demand. Without any communication between the animals, they move in the same direction through a targeted change in the subsurface, and collectively take the path of least resistance.

In works entitled "Rain Pictures" by Prüfer, he creates a cosmological reference to the starry sky and points to their parallels. Just as the celestial bodies were formed from the compression of dust from the Big Bang, raindrops are created through the compression of water vapor. Here Prüfer visualizes the distribution ratio of the stars in the sky through the raindrops, whose impact on the ground (or its image carrier ) describes a comparable distribution pattern.

More techniques

In addition to the natural antype technique, Maximilian Prüfer also developed the technique of “butterfly printing” - a process that enables the pigment flakes of butterflies to be transferred onto paper. The butterflies are transformed from an objet trouvé into a naturalistic imprint, which both poses the question of the authorship of the work and illustrates the evolutionary process in which he depicts the “image” with its origins from development processes and environmental influences.

Political work

The artist Maximilian Prüfer (left) pollinating a fruit tree on an orchard in Sichuan, China.

For his art-political project “A Gift From Him” (2018), which deals with the ecosystemic effects of bee deaths, Prüfer traveled several times to the Chinese region of Sichuan - near the city of Chengdu in the People's Republic of China . Here Chinese plantation workers take over the function of the insects and pollinate the fruit trees by hand. This is necessary because due to the massive use of pesticides in the past decades and as a result of the environmental destruction, hardly any insects have survived to carry out this process naturally. In this action, Prüfer sees an attempt to necessarily replace something lost artificially in order to secure the fruit harvest.

Prüfer learned how to pollinate the flowers manually from the local farmers, found out how the inhabitants were dealing with this changed situation of reduced botanical diversity and took part in the harvest on his second trip.

In photographs, films and objects (including pollination tools, pollen pots and transport baskets used by the farmers as well as the documentation and the casting of a pear that came from a specially 'prepared' flower) Prüfer documents this human intervention in nature in the age of the Anthropocene .

Maximilian Prüfer, Black Butterflyprint 120 , 2017, butterfly scales on paper, 45.3 × 63 cm

Exhibitions (selection)

Maximilian Prüfer, Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) 2, 2019, Fly-Behavior on Hadern-Paper, 90.1 × 64.8 cm

Solo exhibitions

  • 2019: Tier , Kandlhofer Gallery, Vienna
  • 2018: Cattle , Museum Villa Rot , Burgrieden
  • 2018: Sotheby's Munich
  • 2017: Brut , Kandlhofer Gallery, Vienna
  • 2016: Ei , Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus , Augsburg
  • 2015: Flug , LisaBird Contemporary, Vienna
  • 2014: Artifacts - with Nikola Irmer, MEWO Kunsthalle , Memmingen
  • 2013: Mauser , debut exhibition, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Research, Augsburg

Group exhibitions

  • 2019: Flapping wings , Museum Sinclair Haus , Bad Homburg
  • 2018: Egon Schiele. Reloaded , Leopold Museum , Vienna
  • 2018: I followed you to the sun , Kandlhofer Gallery, Vienna
  • 2017: After nature , Museum Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg
  • 2017: Questions about images , H2 Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg
  • 2016: Black Paintings: a response to Jackson Pollock , Site 131, Dallas, USA
  • 2015: KUNS-T-ROOM. Anniversary exhibition , Marktoberdorfer Kunstverein, Marktoberforf
  • 2015: Himmelwärts , Museum Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg
  • 2014: Constellations , Gallery f5,6, Munich
  • 2014: Kunstradius / 150, Kunst im Schloss , Städtische Galerie, Wertingen, DE

Awards

bibliography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Gabriel: NATURE (ANTYPE) . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7757-4249-8 , pp. 10; 11; .
  2. ↑ Titus Arnu: Beautiful slimes . Ed .: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 53/2017 . Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, Munich March 4, 2017, p. 48 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Schiele Reloaded in the Leopold Museum: the anniversary show takes off. Leopold Museum, Vienna, September 30, 2018, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Capricio, Bavarian Broadcasting: Painting with moths - Maximilian auditors. Bayrischer Rundfunk, April 23, 2018, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Roman Grabner: The Semantics of the Ephimers . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7757-4249-8 , pp. 21-27; 27 .
  6. ↑ Roman Grabner: The semantics of the ephemeral . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7757-4249-8 , Traces of Manipulation, p. 24 .
  7. ^ SRF Culture: Patterned - Knowledge of Nature as Art. SRF, March 2, 2017, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Claire Breukel: Together with nature . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7757-4249-8 , pp. 148 .
  9. ↑ Sarah Obertreis: mass death in beautiful. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung online. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 10, 2019, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Maximilian Prüfer , on kandlhofer.com, accessed on July 28, 20202
  11. ↑ + Maximilian Prüfer , from villa-rot.de.com, accessed on July 28, 20202
  12. ↑ Maximilian Prüfer | Brut , at kandlhofer.com, accessed on July 28, 20202
  13. ↑ Maximilian Prüfer - Ei , on kunstsammlungen-museen.augsburg.de, accessed on July 28, 20202
  14. ↑ Maximilian Prüfer in Vienna - Eternal Cycle , on artcollector-magazin.de, accessed on July 28, 20202
  15. ↑ wings on museumsinclairhaus.de, accessed on July 28, 20202
  16. ↑ EGON SCHIELE The RELOADED anniversary show , at leopoldmuseum.org, accessed on July 28, 20202
  17. ↑ I FOLLOWED YOU TO THE SUN , on kandlhofer.com, accessed on July 28, 20202
  18. ↑ AFTER NATURE , at museumsinclairhaus.de, accessed on July 28, 20202
  19. ↑ ask pictures contemporary art for the anniversary of the Reformation , at kunstsammlungen-museen.augsburg.de, accessed on July 28, 20202
  20. ^ Black Paintings: a response to Jackson Pollock , at site131.com, accessed July 28, 20202
  21. ↑ KUNS-T-ROOM | Brigitte Stenzel | Marten Georg Schmid | Maximilian Moritz Prüfer | Sebastian Omatsch , from kuenstlerhaus-marktoberdorf.de, accessed on July 28, 20202
  22. ↑ HIMMELWÄRTS , at museumsinclairhaus.de, accessed on July 28, 20202
  23. ↑ Constellations , on f56.net, accessed on July 28, 20202
personal data
SURNAME Examiner, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Weilheim in Upper Bavaria