Personal data
Name: Hermann Fuchs
Born: 16.12.1955
Resident: 4614 Marchtrenk, Austria
Biography
1976-1981 theoretical and practical research into the medium of black-and-white photography. The theoretical basis was formed by a large number of books on the subjects of photography, photography, positive/laboratory technology. Practical implementation was carried out with a Canon F1, metres of Ilford film material and my own laboratory.
2005 „re-entry“ and until today theoretical and practical research of the medium digital photography and digital processing with Adobe Photoshop.
Work focus – interest in and fascination with the medium of photography
MISSION STATEMENT:
The digital age opens up great innovative possibilities. Digital Imaging uses this potential. Many critics dismiss digital imaging as „gimmickry“, „arbitrariness“.
Nothing is more serious!
Digital Imaging explores new possibilities of pictorial representation, stands for aesthetic change of the original models, stands for abstraction of the representational and stands for change in the art scene.
What do I want? To provoke an intellectual examination of the works. To this end, the work must lead through emotion to association and further to critical reflection. This succeeds through alienation or abstraction – through „peeling out“ the constituent elements of an object or their reinterpretation. In the digital world I can use a variety of colours and forms that does not exist in the analogue world. This enables an aesthetic force that draws the viewer into a dialogue.
Method
An object arouses interest through its composition, its structure and is captured with the camera. These photographs are the primary material. The development of a work of art (usually consisting of several layers) takes place later, as a detached step on the computer in a creative dialogue between image material, technology and fantasy. The image design is based on painting concepts.
Exhibitions and events
- 2022-03: APFELWEINGALERIE Frankfurt Germany, group exhibition „THAT’S MY WORLD – award winning photographers“
- 2020-01: Hong Art Museum, Chongqing/China, group exhibition
- 2019-06: Wissensturm, Linz Austria, group exhibition „appropriate art“
- 2019-04: Galerie Zebra, Wien Austria: „nature meets architecture“
- 2019-03: Galerie M, Kirchstätten Austria „nature meets architecture“
- 2019-02: Marc Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils Latvia, group exhibition „BEAUTY IS TRUTH, TRUTH BEAUTY“
- 2018-05: pashmin gallery Hamburg Germany, group exhibition „Reality – Illusion – Grotesque“
- 2017-12: Dounan Art Museum, China/Kunming
- 2017-11: Shanghai Art Fair, China/Shanghai
- 2017-03: Rotunde der Salzburg AG – Salzburg. Together with brother Helmut Fuchs „Brothers In Arms“
- 2015-05: Club-Galerie im uhof – Linz Austria „abstract realism“
- 2014-09: kultus kellergasse – Braunau Austria „TOPOS – the designed space“
- 2014-07: Bezirksmuseum Herzogsburg – Braunau Austria „abstractions“
- 2013-12: NIU Linz Austria „abstractions“
- 2013-03: ABC Ansfelden Austria „Dark Materia“
- 2013-02: Wissensturm Linz Austria, group exhibition „TOPOS or the change of the landscape“
- 2011-12: 1blick – galerie im vorhaus Hallein Austria „human images“
- 2011-09: Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof Linz Austria, group exhibition „social fairness“
- 2011-03: Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof Linz Austria „structures and exclusion“
- 2010-12: Cinematograph Linz Austria „speechlessness“
Publication
- Abstract Digital Art by Hermann Fuchs 2016 – 2020 – Rediroma-Verlag – ISBN 13: 978-3-9852721-1-2
- Appropriation Art by Hermann Fuchs 2017 – 2020 – Rediroma-Verlag – ISBN 13: 978-3-9852709-8-9
- Defamiliarised Architecture by Hermann Fuchs 2015 – 2020 – Rediroma-Verlag – ISBN 13: 978-3-9852723-4-1
- Magical Surrealism by Hermann Fuchs: 2015 – 2020 – Rediroma-Verlag – ISBN 13: 978-3-9852720-8-2