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2004
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festival de inverno da UFMG / brazil moscow international forum of art / moscow, russia museum 'het stomgemaal' / zwanenburg kunstvlaai / amsterdam arti et amicitiae / amsterdam artwalk / amsterdam |
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2003
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de parel gallery / amsterdam ki-osk / amsterdam |
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2002
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3001 / duesseldorf stubnitz project / amsterdam e.o.f. |
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2001
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W139 gallery / amsterdam st. pieterskerk / leiden gerrit rietveld academie / amsterdam (final examen) |
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2000
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m-art gallery / arnhem W2 / amsterdam |
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1999
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OT301 / amsterdam park of the future / amsterdam |
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1998
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m-art gallery / arnhem o.l.v.g. / amsterdam |
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1997
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hochschule fuer bildende kuenste / hamburg |
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1996
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front / hamburg |
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1995
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designkreuzzuege / hamburg |
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| alex fischer is working in three main fields: drawings, sculptures and video. in his drawings he makes rubbings of manholecovers which he is collecting from all places he has been to since 1998. with these trivial pre-fabricated manholecovers on paper made by graphite pencil-layers in the traffic speed he is transforming the heavy-metal material and size of the original as a screen from the back to the front . the unique copy picks up the structure and surface intensity of metal as well as the marks of the street and the production process. his sculptures from treetrunks as a field of physical, conceptional and ideological battle seems to be developing along two quite distinct trajectories in our times. It is, on the one hand, defined by the problems of the environmental crisis (devastation of existing ecosystems, species extinction, deforestation, etc.), encompassing the sozio-political complexities of the uneven First World/Third world economic power relations. Alongside this concern for the unregulated consumpton of trees, however, is the growing fascination with the (compensatory) production of nature, made possible by developments in biological technologies and genetic engineering. At a moment when many are mourning the loss of an irretrievable nature, others seem to be proclaiming its resurrection through artificial means. his video work is abusing the overload of information and the increasing production of image material throughout all kinds of visual scanners worldwide. he is hunting and pirating global consumer entertainment like movies, commercials, television and internet media as well as producing his own footage of live performances or just trivial banalities. based on a TV structure he is remixing live, fake and real information/images from local and global news, changing contexts and ideas, creating new possibilities and imaginations or just pure manipulations. |
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last update mai 2004
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