Peter Fend

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Peter Fend (* 1950 in Columbus , Ohio ) is an American concept and land artist.

Peter Fend received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton College in Northfield in 1973 . He has been grappling with ecological issues since the late 1970s . His projects combine approaches from Conceptual Art and Land Art with political activism and entrepreneurial ambition. For his work, Peter Fend uses recordings from satellites , architectural models, construction drawings and aeronautical maps, but also drawings, programmatic texts and videos .

In 1980 Peter Fend founded the “Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation” (OECD) or “Ocean Earth” from various New York groups together with Coleen Fitzgibbon, Jenny Holzer , Peter Nadin, Richard Prince and Robin Winters. These are artists, architects and scientists who temporarily work together on an interdisciplinary basis . In terms of Land Art , they follow in the footsteps of Robert Smithson (1938–1973), Dennis Oppenheim (1938–2011) and Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978). One goal of the work is to research alternative energy sources . Satellite images are used to monitor and analyze global ecological and geopolitical crisis zones, mostly on behalf of media companies .

Peter Fend is a member of the artist group Colab (Collaborative Projects) founded in 1977 and participant in the exhibition The Real Estate Show in New York City, which it organized and which opened on New Years Eve 1979/80 and was closed by the police the next day. Joseph Beuys visited the exhibition and then invited Fend to take part in a project for the city of Duisburg. Peter Fend has worked with Wolfgang Staehle , Paul Sharits , Joan Waltemath Matthew Ritchie , Mark Lombardi and Mary Miss , among others .

"I am not an artist, [...] I'm an architect — an important difference."

- Peter Fend

Fend was a participant in documenta IX in Kassel in 1992 and in the Venice Biennale in 1993 . In 2000, Fend exhibited with Mark Dion and Dan Peterman under the title “Ecologies” at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago.

In 2009 Fend was invited to take part in the Emscherkunst.2010 , for which he had designed the project “Fire and Flame for Rivers”. It was about a pavilion that would have been lit with biogas , which should be obtained from aquatic plants. The article "No enlightenment through biogas" in the web magazine Cultura21 describes how the project was allegedly slowed down thanks to "petty jealousies of the researchers' guild in the Ruhr".

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  1. ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13–20. September 1992 - Catalog in three volumes, Volume 1, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0 , p. 142.
  2. ↑ Metamute H2 Earth by Peter Fend, December 10, 2001 accessed on December 27, 2016 (English)
  3. ↑ Medienkunstnetz Peter Fend , accessed on October 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ art at berlin to be built , accessed on December 20, 2016.
  5. ^ Art in America, April 10, 2012, Nancy Princenthal Peter Fend , accessed December 27, 2016.
  6. ↑ Observer by Andrew Russeth, May 2, 2013 Brother, Can You Save $ 2 Billion ?: Is Artist Peter Fend an Autodidactic Genius or a Globetrotting Gadfly? accessed on December 27, 2016
  7. ↑ No enlightenment through biogas «Cultura21 magazine. Retrieved October 15, 2019 .
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SURNAME Fend, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American concept and land artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbus (Ohio)