Tom Fabritius

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Tom Fabritius (* 1972 in Radeberg ) is a German painter . He lives and works in Leipzig and is considered a representative of the so-called New Leipzig School .

Life

Fabritius left the GDR with his family in 1984 . He passed his Abitur in 1992 at the Mörike grammar school in Göppingen . He then did community service and then began studying forest sciences in Freiburg, which he broke off after obtaining his intermediate diploma in order to study painting and graphics from 1996 at the Leipzig College of Graphics and Book Art . From 2001 to 2003 he was a master student with Arno Rink .

In 2002 he co-founded the producer gallery LIGA in Berlin-Mitte, which was supported by eleven former HGB students, including Tim Eitel , Christoph Ruckhäberle , David Schnell , Matthias Weischer and Tilo Baumgärtel . As early as 2002, the press formed the term “New Leipzig School” (NLS) for the exhibitions of this heterogeneous group of artists. The producer gallery league disbanded in 2004 after two years of existence.

Hans-Werner Schmidt counts Fabritius to the inner core of the NLS. His studio is currently located in the Leipzig Cotton Spinning Mill Cultural Center .

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Fabritius' works are based on television images that he captures photographically and for which he gives a new identity through painting. He “[...] grabs his picture templates by [he] persevering as a high-seat shooter in front of the television and waiting for exciting constellations with the photo camera at the ready. When Fabritius implements these 'eye gazes' prepared with the camera in watercolor on paper or acrylic on canvas, he succeeds in creating strong, sometimes dramatic images [...] "

Exhibitions

  • 2012 Everything about Sieger, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  • 2012 Rauschen, Kampl Gallery, Munich
  • 2012 Leipzig Art Panorama, Seongnam Art Center, South Korea
  • 2011 Convoy Leipzig, Biksady Gallery, Budapest
  • 2010 Landscapes, Municipal Department Store, Leipzig
  • 2010: Tom Fabritius - Casting. Michael Schulz Gallery , Berlin
  • 2009: Lubok. Original graphic picture books , Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig
  • 2009 Werkschauhalle Leipzig
  • 2008 Imágenes latentes, Galería Fúcares, Madrid
  • 2008 Drawcula, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  • 2007: Somewhere Else - elsewhere. Art Association Göppingen
  • 2007/2008: Tom Fabritius - Suspicion. Antonio Colomba Arte Contemporana, Milan
  • 2006: Back to the figure. Painting in the present. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung , Munich; also 2006: Museum Franz Gertsch , Burgdorf / Switzerland
  • 2006: Story and Structure - Eight painters from Dresden and Leipzig. Marelliu Gallery, Milan
  • 2005 New German Painting - The Leipzig and Dresden "Schools". Prague Biennale 2

literature

  • Raffaele Gavarro (Eds.), Steve Piccolo (Introduction): Suspicion. Catalog, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan 2007.
  • Back to the figure - contemporary painting . Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Prestel-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7913-6079-5 .
  • Christoph Tannert (Ed.), Jens Asthoff: New German painting. Prestel, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7913-3666-5 , p. 32 ff.
  • Story and Structure, Eight painters from Germany. Marella Gallery, Milan 2006.
  • Rainer Metzger: Tom Fabritius. Pictures 2002-2005. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld / Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-938025-32-8 .
  • Looking at painting 2. Verlag Galerie Tanit, Munich 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ League gallery website
  2. ↑ Melanie Jordan, Malcolm Miles: Art and theory after socialism. Intellekt Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84150-211-3 , pp. 16 f.
  3. ^ Hans-Werner Schmidt: COLD HEARTS, Artists from Leipzig . Arario, Chungnam 2005, ISBN 89-954651-8-5 .
  4. ↑ Christoph Tannert: Acting in the stage - some comments on the new representational painting of the so-called "Leipzig School". In: Friday . February 25, 2005.
  5. ↑ Internet page : ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mdbk.hgb-leipzig.de
  6. ^ Website of the Kunstverein Göppingen
  7. ↑ Internet site: arskey magazine d'arte moderna e contemporanea
  8. ^ Exhibition in the Franz Gertsch Museum at Kunstaspekte.de
  9. ↑ Internet site: arskey magazine d'arte moderna e contemporanea
personal data
SURNAME Fabritius, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Radeberg