Thomas F. Fischer

Thomas F. Fischer (born February 4, 1954 in Cologne , † November 2019 ) was a German performer , draftsman and installation artist .

Life

Fischer worked as a typesetter from 1972 to 1976, attended the Foolsschool Amsterdam in 1977 (lessons with Jango Edwards and the theater groups Het Dogtroep and Spiderwoman). From 1976 to 1979 he was a member (acting, stage design, public relations) of the free theater "Vaganten" (director Joachim Lang), with venues in France, Poland, Portugal and Germany. From 1978 to 1983 he studied art in Cologne as a master student with Renate Lewandowski and Daniel Spoerri . He has also worked as a musician, actor and set designer.

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Many of his drawings, installations, actions and performances reveal themselves through the contrast between the banal and the highly cultural. On the one hand, mostly directly understandable to the senses, on the other hand, diverse references to Anglo-American and British music and art, to French, Italian and German culture, Fluxus and Pop Art only become understandable after a thorough study of the work.

“Extreme physical presence and anonymity when performing come together in his performances. They have a point of reference in the theater, to a certain extent there is also the final curtain. At the end of most of the performances he puts a leopard skin over his head, which is already powerful. […] His performances take up socio-cultural, socio-political issues and they often work with an atmospheric compression, a radicality of the situation. They show process-based actions and then touch each other again with the drawings. "

“I don't have any material from many performances, so I don't have any more photos. […] In a certain way I act like a criminal in a detective novel who leaves no trace if possible. I consciously leave the viewer alone with this experience he has just had. ”The artist is interested in the question of the extent to which we as individuals, viewed in our private, personal status,“ in the focus of our personal contradictions can be corrupted and manipulated or are able to act independently. "

Although the direct and immediate had a high priority in his artistic work, Fischer was more of an artist for a thoughtful audience. In 1993 he received the Cologne Prize of the Swiss Anker Bank (today BCGE, Banque Cantonale de Genève) for his graphic work. His art lessons with Roma children have entered the literature on further education for primary school teachers as a practical example of inclusive pedagogy .

Moons primitif

In the performance "Monde Primitif" from 1981, Fischer worked with a small reading lamp, the flickering image of a defective television and his sense of smell, which he used to orientate himself in space. He had turned off his sight and hearing with a blindfold and ear plugs.

Publications

2016 Les jours de D'JAVU Jeudi 17./ Samedi 21. 40 photographs with text contributions by Joa Lang, Jürgen Raab, Thomas Hirsch, Daniel Spoerri. Salon-Verlag (www.salon-verlag.de), Cologne 2016. ISBN 978-3-89770-427-5

1994 In the Twilight Zone . 20 drawings with essays by Giovanna Pisacane and Jürgen Raap . Bloopress, Cologne 1994. ISBN 3-929546-00-0 , 9783929546002

Working together

• 1984–1985 "Schlager". Collaboration on a music performance by Arno Steffen , performances in the Alten Wartesaal , Cologne; at the Musikmesse Frankfurt a. M .; at the Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen
• Collaboration on projects by Daniel Spoerri. See Daniel Spoerri presents eat art : “Plastic Food” with Thomas Fischer and Jürgen Raap (Cologne).

Exhibitions and performances

• 2011: d'javu.21 .. Crossroads ... garden installation . Solo exhibition June 21, 2011 - September 4, 2011 Sculpture Draussen, Cologne.
• 2010: d'javu.17, crossroads. Room installation. Solo exhibition 17./18. June - July 11, 2010 New Art Forum, Cologne.
• 2006: Contribution to the exhibition Wonderland !: Fluxus & the game. November 18, 2006 - February 18, 2007 Foundation Liedtas-Meesen, Kunstplatform Zebrastraat, Gent, (cat.).
• 2000: Presentation of the Post-Berbuerer apparatus . Performance and happening by Thomas F. Fischer and Jürgen Raap. Moltkerei workshop, Cologne.
• 1998: la gaia scienza. Drawings. Solo exhibition. Arting, Cologne.
• 1997: Installation, performance OT Galeria Arsenal, Białystok , Poland.
• 1996: 5 Star Brand. Concert performance. Artothek Cologne (cat.) And Dampfzentrale Bern .
• 1996: Performance OT contribution to the “Arte Sella” project in Borgo Valsugana , Trento, Italy (cat.).
• 1995: The Porter, Heartbreak Hotel , radio performance, live. Radio LoRa , Zurich.
• 1989: Performance OT Espace Etrange 14. Juillet. Fondation DANAE (Diffusion Attitudes Nouvelles Art-actuel Europe), Pouilly, France.
• 1989: Performance OT at Performance Days , Shedhalle Zurich. 2-4 November. (Documentation) copy-left Verlag Zürich, 1990.
• 1987: Basically, d. H. between the organs , installation, performance. Fridericianum (Kassel) , Documenta 8 , Kassel.
• 1984: Knowledge hurts. Performance. Artists' house Seefischmarkt. Contribution to "Art Landscape Federal Republic". Working Group of German Art Associations , Schleswig-Holstein Art Association Kiel (cat.)
• 1984: theory and practice of evolution . Room installation, performance. Solo exhibition. Artothek Cologne (cat.).
• 1984: In the sea / mer . Performance. For the 1st Bonn Art Week: D-5300 Art. Editor of the documentation: Federal Minister of the Interior , Dierk Engelken, Elisabeth Jappe .
• 1981: Moons Primitif. Performance. Moltkerei workshop, Cologne.
• 1981: Installation, performance OT contribution to Be Alive : Performances by artists from Cologne in the Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne (cat.).
• 1981: Drawings, performance OT For the opening of Fluxus - aspects of a phenomenon . Exhibition of the Art and Museum Association Wuppertal in the Von-der-Heydt-Museum , Wuppertal (cat.).
• 1980: Soirée 'Plastic Food' . Installation, event, performance. Jürgen Raap and Thomas F. Fischer. Contribution to the Eat-Art Festival by Daniel Spoerri "L'Attrape tripes". Maison de la Culture, Chalon-sur-Saone, France.
• 1979: Andy's travel agency. Thomas F. Fischer and Jürgen Raap.

Quote

“At 11:55 p.m. Manni parked on the sidewalk in front of the Peppermint Lounge. [...] A kissing couple on the left at the table, at the counter an older man, skinny as a skeleton, [...]. In the back right the brood artist Fischer played with his walking stick, licked his bulging lips and tugged at his earring. "

literature

• Art landscape Federal Republic - Cologne region . Association of German Art Associations, Stuttgart 1984
• Human rights of the eye (cat.). Brühler Kunstverein, 1982
• d 8 - Documenta 8 (cat.). Weber & Weidemeyer, Kassel 1987
• École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France); Berlin University of the Arts, "Developments: Work by Students of German and French Art Schools", Berlin University of the Arts. (Cat.) Rheinbreitbach (French, German).
• Fritsch, Missmahl, Ottersbach (Ed.): Shot against shot . Dietmar Schneider for his sixtieth. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-87909-668-8
• Kurt Holl (Ed.): The forgotten Europeans: Art of the Roma - Roma in art . A project of the Rom e. V. in cooperation with the Cologne City Museum. Catalog for the 2008 exhibition. Cologne City Museum 2009, ISBN 978-3-9803118-8-5
• Elisabeth Jappe, Christian Merscheid (editor): Moltkerei workshop: Projects 1981–1994. Ed .: Moltkerei workshop. Post, Cologne 1994/95, ISBN 3-923167-14-8
• Elisabeth Jappe: Performance - Ritual - Process, Handbook of Action Art in Europe . Prestel, Munich / New York 1993, ISBN 3-7913-1300-2
• Elisabeth Jappe, Claudia Simmler: Alive (cat.). Culture Office, Cologne 1981
• Nona Nyffeler: Portrait of Thomas F. Fischer . In: Cologne Sketches , Volume 18, Issue 2, Constantin Post Verlag, Cologne 1996
• Jürgen Raap: Performance: In the focus of contradictions , conversation with Jürgen Raap. In: Kunstforum International , Volume 105, Cologne 1990

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas F. Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Arting exhibition, Cologne 1998
• sculpture outside, Cologne 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas F. Fischer died. Accessed November 23, 2019 (German). 
2. ^ Thomas Hirsch: artist portrait: Thomas F. Fischer: Je Faix Ce Jeu . In: choices . choices Verlag, Cologne June 2004, p. 27, 1 and 27.3 .
3. ^ Heinz Thiel: D-5300 art, artist tent: For the 1st Bonn art week . Ed .: Federal Minister of the Interior, Dierk Engelken, Elisabeth Jappe. Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-923154-09-7 .
4. ^ Jürgen Raap: Performance. In the focus of contradictions . In: Kunstforum International (ed.): Kunstforum . tape 105 , January 1990, pp. 258-264 .
5. ↑ Klaus Metzger, Erich Weigl (ed.): Inclusion - a school for everyone . Cornelsen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-589-05164-9 .
6. ↑ Susanne Vill : The creative reach for life . In: Wolfgang Roscher, Society for Polyesthetic Education (Hrsg.): Polyaisthesis . No. 2 , 1991, p. 117.2 .
7. ^ Elisabeth Hartung (Ed.): Daniel Spoerri presents eat art . Verl. Für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2001, ISBN 3-933096-71-5 , p. 173.1 .
8. ^ New Art Forum: Exhibitions 2010. New Art Forum, accessed on June 14, 2010 . 
9. ↑ Jürgen Raap: djavu 17 crossroads . In: Kunstforum International . tape 203 , 2010, p. 301 f .
10. ↑ Jürgen Kelter, Christina Kelter ... (Ed.): Wonderland: Fluxus & the game / Zebrastraat. Ghent 2006 (Exhibition: Zebrastraat NV, January 18, 2006– February 18, 2007).
11. ↑ Wonderland! Art Libraries Association Florence - Munich - Rome, accessed on October 28, 2012 . 
12. ↑ Dietmar Schneider (Ed.): Cologne sketches . Volume 4. Wienand, Cologne 2000, p. 24.1 .
13. ^ Thomas F. Fischer: la gaia scienza. arting, accessed June 30, 2010 . 
14. ↑ Article Nie jest tak, jak wam się wydaje , in Kurier Poranny (Morgenkurier, a daily newspaper from Białystok), No. 115, May 19, 1997
15. ↑ COINCIDENCE XVI meeting in Cologne. IGNIS European Cultural Center, accessed June 30, 2010 . 
16. ^ Friends of the Artothek Köln e. V. (Ed.): 1973 - 1998 Artothek . Wienand, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-87909-596-5 , p. 54-57 .
17. ^ Associazione Arte Sella (Ed.): Arte Sella: International Art Meeting, Sella di Borgo Valsugana . Mazzotta, 1996, p. 28, 32, 53 (Italian, Performances a cura di Elisabeth Jappe).
18. ↑ Elisabeth Jappe, Claudia Simmler (ed.): With a living body: Performances by artists from Cologne: Documentation . Culture Office Cologne, 1981.
19. ↑ Jürgen Raap: Eating and drinking . In: Kunstforum International . tape 159 , 2002, pp. 71.3 , col. 1 .
20. ↑ Playboy . No. 12 . Bauer Verlagsgruppe, Hamburg December 1979, p. 49, 2 .
21. ↑ Christoph Gottwald : Lifelong Pizza . In: Cologne crime thriller . tape 3 . Emons Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-924491-07-0 , pp. 59.1 .