Andrés Fischer Muñoz Explained

Andrés "Andreas" Fischer Muñoz (born 1965) is a Colombian-American realist painter living in Switzerland.

Biography

Fischer was born into an artistic family in 1965 in Bogotá, to a Colombian father and an American mother. He studied art at the University of the Andes, Colombia (Arts and Humanities School), where he exhibited at its Marta Traba Gallery and obtained his bachelor's in 1990. He also exhibited at other institutions, and his graduate thesis[1] and first solo exhibition was "A partir de la poesia" at the Gartner-Torres Gallery. In July 1991, he moved to New York City; he performed postgraduate work at the nondegree fine arts college Art Students League of New York,[1] for four years, earned a master's in fine arts at Pratt Institute, and held twelve exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic. He continued his career by moving to Bern, Switzerland, in 2004;[2] he speaks Spanish, English, and German. He is also a yoga practitioner,[3] and has adopted German painter Gerhard Richter's slogan, "Painting is dead, but who cares?"

Art

During the Colombian period, he stated that each of his works were inspired by a poem of Fernando Pessoa, whom he considers the "poeta del desasosiego" (poet of disquiet).[3]

His one-month solo ultrarealist art exhibition, "Parejas" ("Couples"), at the Beatrice Brunner Gallery in Bern in 2006, displayed seven diptych paintings depicting seminude individuals in pairs but separated deconstructively by whitespace, staring at the viewers.[4] One half of one of the diptychs was stolen prior to the exhibition. Inspired by Fischer's study of the historical artistic representation of relationships in society and painted over the course of five years, the enigmatic paintings emphasize the necessity of individuality in all relationships; the relationship between the couples is left unstated. Fischer explained, "It was intended that the couple needs a space and that that space contains a distance between the two individuals, and that that space is important."[5]

Paintings in the photorealist series include Carolina and Juan (2004), in which Juan, on the edge of the painting, appears indecisive about remaining in the image or abandoning the common space; Lauren and Dean; Maria and Deuxchevs (2006); Ralph (2003); and Sarah and Michael.[2] [6] [5] They were painted according to photos taken of the model couples early in the morning, shortly after waking, to obtain intimate portraits. The whitespace was inspired by Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, by Caspar David Friedrich,[6] while the distance between each couple was inspired by royal portraiture such as Francisco Goya's painting The Family of Charles IV. Curator Beatrice Brunner stated that reception was "magnificent": patrons included Berner Zeitung journalist and critic Konrad Tobler, and painter and philosopher Angelica Baum.[5]

These paintings were re-exhibited when Fischer, and three older Colombian artists who had immigrated to Switzerland since 1972, participated in a joint exhibit commemorating the centennial of the Colombian-Swiss peace treaty of March 14, 1908.[2] [7] Colombian ambassador Claudia Jimínez sponsored the exhibit,[7] and critic Tobler stated that Fischer's art focuses much more on the psychological aspect than the photographic, in the photorealist tradition.[8]

Exhibitions

Honors

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Andres Fischer: Pintor. 1991. 2009-03-25. El Arte de Colombia. https://web.archive.org/web/20160602220538/http://www.colarte.com/colarte/conspintores.asp?idartista=5313. 2016-06-02. dead.
  2. News: 1, 2, 3, 4 Pintores Colombianos en Suiza. Colombian Embassy. Bern, Switzerland. 2008-07-15. 2009-03-25. Jimínez, Claudia . Stein, Arno . 24–29.
  3. News: Bodegón de plantas. Dueñas, Jairo. El Arte de Colombia. 1991. 2009-03-25.
  4. Web site: Andreas Fischer Muñoz . Beatrice Brunner Gallery . 2006 . 2009-03-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070728193511/http://www.beatricebrunner.ch/programm_details.php?id=18 . July 28, 2007 .
  5. News: Andrés Fischer rompe con medio siglo de ideas preconcebidas (Andrés Fischer breaks with half century of preconceived ideas). Swiss Info. 2006-09-21. Rubín, Marcela Águila. 2009-03-25. La idea era que se entendiera que la pareja necesita un espacio y que ese espacio tiene una distancia entre los dos individuos, y que ese espacio es importante..
  6. News: Bern: Andres Fischer Muñoz in der Galerie Béatrice Brunner. Kunst Bulletin. Kunst-Bulletin Schweiz. 2006-09-23. 2009-03-25. Henkes, Alice.
  7. News: Kolumbianische Maler in Burgdorf: Ausstellung eingewanderter Südamerikaner. Schweizer Fernsehen. SF Tagesschau: Kultur. 2008-09-11. 2009-03-25.
  8. Web site: 1, 2, 3, 4, pintores colombianos en Suiza. 2008-09-20. 2009-03-25. Swiss Info. Rubín, Marcela Águila. La pintura de Andrés Fischer tiene calidades que van mucho más del aspecto psicológico. Su fuerza es la capacidad de convertir el material fotográfico y plasmarlo en el lienzo, siguiendo claramente la tradición del fotorealismo..
  9. Web site: Fil Rouge 08 - mi-temps. 2008. 2009-03-25. Steiner Gallery. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706232213/http://www.galerie-steiner.ch/erlach.htm. 2011-07-06. dead.

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