Thomas Palme

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Thomas Palme (* 1967 in Immenstadt ) is a German artist.

Life

Thomas Palme was born in Immenstadt. His father was an authorized officer, his mother a housewife. Even his exercise books, as well as all class work, were obsessively littered with scribbles. In 1982 he left school to study double bass at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg. In 1983 he began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Hans Baschang , and shortly afterwards switched to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna for a year . From 1988 to 1994 he attended the classes of Tony Cragg and Michael Buthe at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Although he officially completed his studies with a diploma, he only took part in the classes sparingly, as he did not learn anything from the professors himself. From 1992 a psychosis became apparent because he did not know which hand to draw with. Palme has the gift of being able to draw and write equally well with both hands, but he feels that each hand represents a different quality of expression. Since nobody can tell him what to do, he stopped being an artist and worked for various art transport companies. It wasn't until 2001 that he began to draw again in the midst of an existential exceptional situation. He developed a technique in which he works alternately and sometimes simultaneously with both hands. In the same year he also performed his first performances while staying in the Allgäu. In 2007 Palme moved back to the Allgäu, where he still lives today. From 2010 to 2014 he successfully fought in court against his former publisher and mentor for the publication of thousands of works. He lives and works in Immenstadt in the Allgäu .

job

Although Palme performs short performances for the camera and has also made smaller bronze sculptures, his primary medium of artistic expression is drawing. “You determine everything! It determines the artist and it determines the work. ”He even said on one sheet:“ I no longer draw myself, it somehow draws right through me. ”Every year around 1000 pencil drawings are made on paper. Palme always works with the same pencil thicknesses on the same paper in the same formats. In addition to his standard format of 65 × 50 cm, he has also created large-format series in the dimensions 150 × 120 cm such as the cycles "Die Künstlerhure" or "Transformation".

At the center of his work is always the artist as an exemplary representative of society, tied between the driving forces Eros and Thanatos . The titles and text parts are an essential part of his drawings. The words often give the representations that twist into the ironic and ambiguous that would not be obvious from the sometimes provocative and challenging subjects alone. Palme's influences therefore come more from literature than from the fine arts. Authors such as Giacomo Leopardi , Charles Baudelaire , Emily Dickinson , Ezra Pound or TS Eliot can be found as references in his captions and illustrations. In analogy to “ confessional poetry ”, he also speaks of his drawings as “confessional drawing”.

Palme refers to those artists and writers who knew that death was inscribed in life and who worked in the awareness of this impotence. In his drawings he creates "a world of obsessions and repressions, desires and passions, compulsions and fears [...] and describes the normal madness, the ridiculousness and tragedy of being human." Drawing for expression and not because he draws equally well and sometimes at the same time with both hands, but it is the drawing that he has experienced as a person, the being drawn by society and the drawing of this experience on the sheet of paper. "

Thomas Palme is represented in Germany by Galerie Martinetz in Cologne and in Austria by galerieGALERIE in Vienna.

Public collections (selection)

  • Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum
  • Art collection of the state of Lower Austria
  • Leopold Museum, Vienna

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018: Schiele Brus Palme. Crash dreams. Leopold Museum Vienna
  • 2017: You and I, character line. Günter Brus + Thomas Palme. galerie GALERIE, Vienna
  • 2016: PALM-CAT 666. Martinetz, Cologne
  • 2016: great hour drawing. Michael Haas Gallery, Berlin
  • 2016: Yoga Dog. Kai Erdmann Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2015: The drawn me. BRUSEUM / Neue Galerie Graz
  • 2014: Bronzes & Drawings. Teapot, Cologne
  • 2013: The beautiful miller. Art-Depot, Innsbruck
  • 2012: The little newsreel. Teapot, Cologne
  • 2011: The one hundred most important men in history. stageBACK / Eastlink Gallery Shanghai
  • Thomas Palme - Galerie Jean Pierre Ritsch - Fish, Strasbourg
  • 2010: Lost or Damned! Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen
  • 2010: Artwhores, artist whores, solo show at the Armory Show, New York
  • 2010: Rising Spinet. Philipp Konzett Gallery, Vienna
  • 2010: Rotten Home. You don't deserve a better artist! Factory / Kunsthalle Krems
  • 2010: Animal Sprit. Galerie Jean Pierre Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg
  • 2009: MADNESS; BOOZE AND SOCIAL PHOBIA. stageBACK / Eastlink Gallery Shanghai (at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut Shanghai)
  • 2008: WALD Teapot, Cologne
  • 2008: The Noise. Andreas Grimm, New York City
  • 2008: recession, climate change and death. Art space BLAST, Cologne
  • 2007: Mösendorfer tin salad. Gallery Philipp Konzett, Vienna
  • 2007: Who is looking in there? Michael Haas Gallery, Berlin
  • 2006: Colonia Dignidad. Kudlek van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne
  • 2004: The Welterman Time-Shock. Guild & Greyshkul, New York City
  • 2004: I don't want to be stigmatized. Parisa Kind Gallery, Frankfurt / Main
  • 2003 Shakira47. Parisa Kind Gallery, Frankfurt / Main

literature

  • Thomas Palme estate. Pencil drawings 2001 - 2002. Darling Publ. 2002. ISBN 3-934795-31-5
  • Thomas Palme. The Brick. Works Not Only on Paper 2003-2004. Cologne: Darling Publ. 2005. ISBN 978-3-939130-000
  • Thomas Palme. The Brick's Appendix. Works on Paper 2003-2004. Cologne: Darling Publ. 2005. ISBN 978-3-939130-000
  • Palm tree in Berlin. 14 days Thomas Palme at Galerie Michael Haas in Berlin-Charlottenburg or the hare and the vase. Michael Haas Gallery. Cologne: Darjeeling Publ. 2007. ISBN 978-3-939130-38-3
  • Thomas Palme. Self-portraits & the Ego-Haiko cycle. Cologne: Darling Publ. 2009. ISBN 978-3-941765-08-5
  • Thomas Palme. Size does matter. Large Drawings 2008 - 2009. Cologne: Darling Publ. 2009. ISBN 978-3-941765-03-0
  • Thomas Palme. Size Does Matter II. Large Drawings 2009 - 2010. The Austria Appendix. Kunsthalle Krems. Darling Publ. 2010. ISBN 978-3-901261-45-9
  • Thomas Palme. Jean-Pierre Ritsch-Fisch Gallery. Strasbourg: Marquart 2011.
  • House of Pain. Thomas Palme. Innsbruck: Kunstraum Innsbruck 2014.
  • Thomas Palme. The Schiele block. St. Ruprecht an der Raab 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Palme's biography in the exhibition “Schiele Brus Palme. Crash Dreams ”in the Leopold Museum Vienna 2018.
  2. ↑ Thomas Palme's biography in the exhibition “Schiele Brus Palme. Crash Dreams ”in the Leopold Museum Vienna 2018.
  3. ↑ Thomas Palme, I will stop - I will continue. In: Thomas Palme. Size Does Matter II. Large Drawings 2009-2010. The Austria Appendix. Kunsthalle Krems. Darling Publ. 2010, p. 125.
  4. ↑ Thomas Palme, ECB go home, 2016
  5. ↑ http://palme-zeichenblog.blogspot.co.at/
  6. ↑ Hans-Peter Wipplinger, shaman from the Allgäu. In: Thomas Palme. Size Does Matter II. Large Drawings 2009-2010. The Austria Appendix. Kunsthalle Krems. Darling Publ. 2010, p. 127.
  7. ^ Roman Grabner, The Schiele Block. In: Thomas Palme. The Schiele block. St. Ruprecht an der Raab 2018, o. P.
personal data
SURNAME Palme, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Immenstadt