Thomas Rissler

Thomas Rissler (* 1962 in Stuttgart ) is a contemporary German sculptor and wood cutter .

biography

Torso satyr . 1993. marble. 150 × 80 × 80 cm

After graduating from high school in Ulm in 1981 , Thomas Rissler completed an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor from 1983 to 1986 . From 1988 to 1996 he studied at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen and was a master student of the sculptor Bernd Altenstein .

His work was funded in 2006 by a work grant from the German gallery owner Hans-Jürgen Müller for his future project Mariposa on Tenerife . In 2007 he was awarded a three-year studio grant by the Esslingen district .

Since 2005 he has been a member of XYLON (International Association of Wood Cutters )

Rissler has lived and worked in Tengen, Constance district , since 2015 .

plant

Sleep , 2009, woodcut, 240 × 300 cm

In the more recent, mainly large-format woodcuts, the whole is more in a very concrete sense than the sum of its parts. The whole is the picture, produced from grid elements. But can this be said at all? The whole thing was already a picture before, layered, compressed, penetrated, intertwined - a picture made up of many pictures, a picture from many times, a picture made up of pictures that refer to pictures, and thus to others and their times.

Thomas Rissler creates his entirety, his images, his scenarios on the screen of a computer in order to subject them to an artistic form of expression in the next step, which refers both cryptically and consistently to the duality of blessing and curse of the mass-produced image information: the woodcut. Here, by questioning media and image-conveying structures, he opens up a wide variety of levels of reality, analytical, mediating, distant and inspired.

The penetration into the multimedia mountain of images, the questioning of found and condensed pictorial material establishes an image setting, ostensibly apocalyptic, but at the same time proving to be a timelessly valid evocation of life - and formally in the best sense of a condensing image idea, conceptual.

Nikolai B. Forstbauer, Stuttgart, 2010, excerpts from the Thomas Rissler Links catalog

literature

Monographic catalogs

Left , publisher: Landratsamt Esslingen am Neckar , 2010, ISBN 978-3-924123-76-5
Alarm and other images , Ed .: Uta Dingethal Art Consulting Weil der Stadt , 2002

Exhibition catalogs (selection)

in Experimental 20 , publisher: Friends of Gottmadingen Culture and Local History , 2018, ISBN 978-3-9812692-6-0
in decided indirect , XYLON, publisher: Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus , Reutlingen , 2012, ISBN 978-3-939775-31-7
in Druckfest , XYLON, publisher: Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen , 2009, ISBN 978-3-939775-12-6
in high pressure zone , XYLON, publisher: Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen , 2007, ISBN 3-933820-92-8

in Dreifach , XYLON, ed .: Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen , 2005, ISBN 3-933820-71-5

in interfaces , XYLON, publisher: Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen , 2002, ISBN 3-933820-46-4

in Woodcut Today - Art Prize 2002 , Ed .: Foundation Art, Culture and Education of the Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg , 2002

in Woodcut Today - Art Prize 2000 , Ed .: Foundation for Art, Culture and Education of the Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg, 2000

Other publications (selection)

in Hans-Jürgen Müller The story of an idea: Mariposa , Neuer Kunstverlag, Stuttgart , 2008, ISBN 978-3-938023-33-4
in Hans-Jürgen Müller Mariposa: Magic of a Garden , Wasmuth, Tübingen , 2007, ISBN 978-3-8030-3323-9

Web links

Commons : Thomas Rissler - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Rissler, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH	1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart