Thomas Locher

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Thomas Locher (* 1956 in Munderkingen ) is a German conceptual artist . He has been the rector of the Leipzig University of Art and Graphics since February 2017 .

Life

From 1979 to 1985 he studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and from 1981 to 1985 at the University of Stuttgart . In the 1997/98 winter semester he was visiting professor at the Merzakademie in Stuttgart. From 2008 to 2016 he was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Thomas Locher is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lived in Cologne from 1986 to 2000 and now works and lives in Berlin and Copenhagen.

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Locher's conceptual works, which are heavily based on French structuralism , deal with the problems of language and signs and the possibilities of producing images that reflect the meaning of the signified and the significant without using terms and sentences. The result of these reflections are his "number works", geometric compositions reminiscent of concrete art with numbered or lettered homogeneous colored surfaces.

Other works put quotations from different authors in large block letters into the picture, "commented on" using paint bags that have cracked on the surface of the picture. The quotations are occasionally taken from classics of Marxist economic theory, such as B. Karl Marx or Alfred Sohn-Rethel , or official documents such. B. the UN Convention against Torture. An example is the series “Marx Works” with text fragments from Karl Marx's Capital .

His “Gift” series consists of black and white photographic works with excerpts showing hands and gestures in connection with negotiations, conversations or the conclusion of contracts. The individual images are each highlighted with quotations from Jacques Derrida's book “Donner le Temps”.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2020: Visual Semiotics, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
  • 2019: Thomas Locher. The Shape of Words to Come. Edge / Corner / Margin, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
  • 2017: Dead Letters. Living words. Dying metaphors. graft, press, hang, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
  • 2015: Post-Information, Galerie Silberkuppe, Berlin
  • 2015: Doors, KMD Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp / The Forestay Museum of Art, Cully, Switzerland
  • 2014: Two Postures. WALLWORK # 12, Association for the Promotion of Art and Culture at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz eV, Berlin
  • 2014: Absent Things, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
  • 2013: The phenomenon of image and writing. Typography and art since the 1960s, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe , Karlsruhe
  • 2013: Cube. Sparda Art Prize (with Katrin Mayer and Alexander Roob), Art Museum, Stuttgart
  • 2013: Homo oeconomicus, Vienna Secession , Vienna, catalog
  • 2012: Parcours, Kunstpalais Erlangen
  • 2012: AND IN BETWEEN (with Katarina Zdjelar), Galerie Stadtpark Krems, Krems
  • 2010: 6th Berlin Biennale
  • 2010: X and a little more Y ... (text work), Kubus im Petuelpark , Munich
  • 2008: Familiar Terrain, Current Art in & About Germany, Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) Karlsruhe
  • 2006: This Land is my Land…, Kunsthalle Nürnberg , Germany
  • 2005: lines and traces, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
  • 2004: 100 Artists See God, Institute of Contemporary Arts , London
  • 2004: Vienna Coffee Table, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
  • 2002: Reproduction, Bernhard Knaus Gallery, Mannheim

literature

  • Sabeth Buchmann et al .: Thomas Locher. Homo oeconomicus . Revolver Verlag, Vienna 2013; Exhibition catalog.
  • Bernhard Knaus (Ed.): ReProduction . Ed. Knaus, Mannheim 2002; Catalog of an exhibition curated by Thomas Locher.
  • Johann-Karl Schmidt (Ed.): Thomas Locher: politics of communication; Fragments of emergency legislation; Knots and lines; human rights . Quantum Books, Stuttgart 2003; Exhibition catalog.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "L" / Thomas Locher (accessed on November 2, 2015)
  2. ↑ flickr.com
  3. ↑ kunstaspekte.de
  4. ↑ Thomas Locher: X and a little more Y to it. In: kunstaspekte.art. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Locher, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Munderkingen