Tassilo Blittersdorff

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tassilo Blittersdorff (born October 12, 1946 in Bad Ischl ) is an Austrian concept and photo artist and painter .

Life

Tassilo Blittersdorff studied art history and archeology at the University of Vienna and in Salzburg from 1965 to 1970 . He then studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome until 1975 . He lives and works in Vienna.

Tassilo Blittersdorff mostly works with series that thematically belong to a concept. He is interested in innovative possibilities, uses unusual materials and experimental techniques that he develops especially for certain picture ideas.

The first of his conceptual series (from approx. 1975) dealt with the emergence, changeability and recognizability of signs, later there were topics such as the alpine landscape (mountain series 1976-78) and the human body (heart series, body prints approx. 1979 -1982).

From around 1989 he tried to produce pictures automatically with electrochemical processes , and for the first time the picture-generating possibilities of galvanization were used artistically. The complex structures of metal deposits on graphite- coated image carriers (canvas, paper) resemble organically grown objects.

From around 1993/94 he began working with photochemical processes . With old, now uncommon techniques such as cyanotype , ferric chloride and combination processes, which are exposed to daylight, photograms of plants and animals, reproductions of documentary photos, images from newspapers and books are created. Timing is shown by recording changes in the position of the sun. In addition, installations and objects were created from everyday and trash material, sometimes with specially built machines, and cross-media stagings in the room with objects, photos, videos and texts that refer to the political and social context of images and symbols.

Occasionally Blittersdorff also uses combinations of electrochemical and photochemical processes, as in the installation “The Rose speaks all languages ​​of the world” , which was created in 1998 on the occasion of the reopening of the Technical Museum in Vienna.

Since the late 1990s he has been developing concepts for cultural and social structures and their architectural and urban realization. The public of the places where the projects take place is included. The art project is the first step in a process of awareness formation that extends to book publications, symposia, etc. Examples of this are the temporary redesign of the Werndl monument in Steyr into a multimedia work of art in public space (1998, together with the video artist Bernadette Huber) and in 2002 the replica of the man-made ruins of Hanselburg on a square in Loosdorf near Laa an der Thaya an art object was created with the help of the population. Shortly afterwards, it also renovated the already desolate original ruin. The publication of the book “Loosdorf - both, and - a local portrait” concluded the project in 2004.

Since 2003 Blittersdorff has been working on a project about architecture and social life in the real socialist planned and industrial city of Nowa Huta near Krakow. Based on documentary photos, the field of tension between photography and other image techniques (painting, drawing, cyanotype) is examined and the art project tries to find new ways of looking at this urban phenomenon.

Blittersdorff has been a member of the Vienna Secession since 1977 and of the Maerz Artists 'Association in Linz and the Graz Authors' Assembly since 1994 .

Exhibitions (selection)

(P) personal exhibitions, (K) collective exhibitions

  • 1976: "Segno-scrittura-segno", studio d´arti visive, Rome (P)
  • 1977: "Signs for the fall", Secession Vienna (P)
  • 1982: "Facial pictures-picture faces", Hildebrand Gallery, Klagenfurt, "Facial pictures", City Museum Nordico, Linz (P)
  • 1987: "Case e colori", Galleria Kocian, Grado (P)
  • 1988: Galerie Tabant, Vienna "Rot-Weiss-Rot", Galerie Maerz, Linz "Coincidentia oppositorum", azienda autonomo di turismo, Sistiana / Triest, Hipphalle, Gmunden, together with FJ Altenburg "Much-easy-much-difficult" Gallery Brünnerstrasse, Gaweinstal (P)
  • 1989: Gallery "Cult", Vienna (P)
  • 1990: "Rapids", Gallery A4 Wels, Gallery Rytmogramm, Bad Ischl (P)
  • 1992: "Working means of production", Gallery Unwahr, Berlin "Changing pictures", Gallery in the Stifterhaus, Linz (P)
  • 1993: "A growth period - Rosniecie period" Galeria QQ, Ul.Rakowicka 21, Kraków (P) Genetic Art, Ars Electronica, Upper Austrian State Gallery, Linz, flood of light, Carinthian State Gallery, Klagenfurt (K)
  • 1994: “Transbananas”, Gallery QQ, Ul.Mehoffera 2. Kraków “Plato”, Photo Gallery Vienna, “Welswelt”, Gallery of the City of Wels (P) “Art in transit”, art space ship Stubnitz, St. Petersburg-Hamburg, “Fort Sztuki ", Kraków (K)
  • 1995: "World Movement," Galerie Gmünd / Carinthia (P) "prawda i metoda", Centrum Sztuki, Bytom, "Spotkania Krakowskie" BWA-Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (K)
  • 1996: "this-same", former Virchow lecture hall of the Charité, Berlin (P)
  • 1997: "Time Sculptures," O.Ö. State Gallery Linz (K)
  • 1998: Video-computer light installation at the Werndldenkmal, Steyr, with Bernadette Huber (as part of the Upper Austrian state exhibition) “The rose speaks all languages ​​of the world”, electrochemical installation in the Technical Museum, Vienna
  • 2000: "Austria in Autumn," video and text installation on the occasion of the exhibition "Schöpfungszeiten" O.Ö. State Gallery Linz (K)
  • 2001: "Spielkampf - Kampfspiel", picture series and video installation, Bananapark, Landau (P)
  • 2002: Opening of the site design project “a place builds a landmark” in Loosdorf, near Laa an d. Thaya, Lower Austria “Spielkampf - Kampfspiel”, serial picture and video installation at “Kaernoel”, Villach
  • 2004: Book presentation "Loosdorf - both as well as - portrait of a place in the northern Weinviertel" in Loosdorf, near Laa an d. Thaya, Lower Austria,
  • 2005: Exhibition "Bramy-Obrazy z Nowej Huty" in SARP, Krakow (P)
  • 2005: "Nowa Huta Variations", cultural center "Fort 49 - Kreszlavice", Nowa Huta, November 14th - December 16th, 2005 (P)

Awards and scholarships (selection)

  • 1973: Medal of the Rome Art Academy for anatomical drawing
  • 1978: Award of the City of Vienna for fine arts
  • 1979: Theodor Körner Prize
  • 1980: State grant for fine arts
  • 1988: First prize in the 8th Römerquelle art competition
  • 1992/93: Federal grant in the Austrian studio in Krakow
  • 1995: Award of recognition from the state of Lower Austria. f. Visual arts
  • 1999–2000: Austrian Federal Scholarship, Paris
  • 2003: "Margret Bilger work grant" from the state of Upper Austria for the project "Nowa Huta- an ideal city in transition"

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Blittersdorff, Tassilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Ischl