JUST PUBLISHED
Tom Fecht – INCERTITUDES
An introduction to DARK MATTERs
by Emma Nilsson and Gérard Klein
28 pages / 30 x 18 cm / 19 illustrations
PDF
Tom Fecht: Homage – Mémoire nomade
Names and Stones – Documenta IX, Kassel (1992) in:
Michael Petry: The Word is Art
Thames & Hudson, London 2018
ISBN: 978-0-50-023966-7
UPCOMING

TEFAF Maastricht 2019

SP ARTE 2019 / 15th Edition

SP-ARTE / FOTO 2019 /12th Edition

PHOTOSYNTHESIS / FOTOSSÍNTESE
Tom Fecht & Hugo Franca
Photography, Sculpture and Monoprints
Curated by Mírian Badaro
Galeria Bolsa de Arte
2o August – 29 October 2019
Rua Mourato Coelho, 790
São Paulo | SP
Brazil
Galeria Bolsa de Arte
10 October – 30 November 2019
Rua Visconde do Rio Branco, 365
Porto Alegre | RS
Brazil
Tel +55 51 999815283
Current

DeepTime / TiefenZeit

Incertitudes #4001. 125 x 210cm
Incertitudes #32001. 125 x 210cm
DeepTime / TiefenZeit – Tom Fecht
Permanent museum presentation including recent works
of the ECLIPSE and INCERTITUDES series
Museum DKM
Güntherstraße 13 – 15, 47051 Duisburg, Germany
Contact
Website
The DKM Foundation acquired a selection of works by Tom Fecht.
They are now on permanent display as part of DKM’s contemporary museum collection.
An English/German catalogue of the exhibition will be published in spring 2019, including an introduction by Siegfried Zielinski (ZKM) and essays by Irmgard Benrieder and Emma Nilsson.
Press
Museum Blog Ruhrpott – 05.2017
Das Museum DKM in Duisburg zeigt in der Ausstellung „TiefenZeit. TOM FECHT“ beeindruckende Fotografien des Künstlers, die über das sonst sichtbare Maß des menschlichen Sehens hinaus gehen.
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WDR – 05.05.2017
Fotografien von Tom Fecht im Museum DKM, Duisburg
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WAZ – 10.05.2017
Tom Fecht – der Fotograf der tiefen Dunkelheit
Er geht mit seinen Kameras an den Rand der Zivilisation und macht Unsichbares sichtbar. Das Museum DKM zeigt die Ausstellung „TiefenZeit“.
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PAST

DARK MATTERs

GRAVITY MIRRORS and UNIQUE VINTAGE PRINTS

DESIGN MIAMI BASEL 2018

ELECTRIC CINEMA – The Complete Series

Galerie Laffanour DOWNTOWN Paris presents
Unique vintage prints by
TOM FECHT
9 Avril – 2 Juin 2018
CHÂTEAU SIRAN
13 Avenue du Comté Lynch
33460 Bordeaux-Labarde
France
Monday-Saturday 10am-1pm & 2-6pm
and by appointment
Contact
TEFAF NEW YORK SPRING 2018

DeepTime / TiefenZeit
TEFAF Maastricht 2018
ARTIST TALK
18 November 2017 4 – 6 pm
DeepTime
On Uncertainty – Hubertus von Amelunxen* and Tom Fecht in conversation
* Walter Benjamin Chair, Professor of Philosophy of Photography and Cultural Studies. President of The European Graduate School, Saas-Fee/Switzerland and Valletta/Malta.
Museum DKM Duisburg in collaboration with SETAREH GALLERY Düsseldorf
Güntherstr. 13-15, 47051 Duisburg, Germany
R.S.V.P.
Hubertus von Amelunxen on Wikipedia
Design Miami / Basel
COLOR MARKS and DARK MATTERs
2017 European Conference – Color Marketing Group
Valencia, Spain May 17-19
Expanded Lecture by Rozbeh Asmani and Tom Fecht
The expanded lecture investigates properties of color invisible to the naked human eye.
Black will be the point of departure to explore the invisible aspects of color embracing an unexpected fan of artistic and scientific points of view.
Résumé
COLORMARKS and DARK MATTERs
Expanded Lecture by Rozbeh Asmani and Tom Fecht
The expanded lecture investigates properties of color invisible to the naked human eye. The relationship of color control and power will be Rozbeh Asmani’s point of departure to explore the invisible aspects of color embracing an unexpected fan of artistic strategies interacting with economic, social and scientific points of view. But the invisible aspects of color will be simultaneously explored in very opposite directions. The lecturer’s discourse will expand into an unexpected dialogue without warning: From the monochrome depth and diversity of natures burning blackness towards the cool aesthetics of industrial color monopoly and corporate brand communication.
Black as a color includes a vast spectrum of contemporary shades combined with a high charge of cultural codes and transformative meanings. As a non-color black seems to share it’s profound magic with the unknown while giving a household name to astronomy’s black matters. There seems to be no accident, that the most recent scientific proof of existence for Dark Matter reanimated phantasies around the globe. This will be the context introducing DARK MATTERs by German photo-artist Tom Fecht. The umbrella term covers a recent body of marine night photography that investigates notions of color, time and space while reminding us that over 95% on the universe remains unknown Dark Matter. These minimalist works cross the line between the physical world and the invisible, magic part of our universe while pushing photography to the edge of quantum physics. Expanding the color-limits of the night became the artist’s photographic signature; exploring light beyond the visible spectrum created his photographic brand.
COLORMARKS by Iranian artist Rozbeh Asmani is the outcome of an on-going research into the field of color trademarks registered at the German Patent and Trademark Office. The silk screens and digital C-Prints explore a specific range of colors protected by trademark law in their respective fields of usage: The yellow- green color design of gas stations owned by an oil multinational as well as the brown van and overall of a global courier or the dark-blue round of a skin crème box. One glance is often enough to remind us not only of the very trademark, but also of our daily encounter with these products and services. Asmani’s work visualizes the impact of color monopoly on our collective memory when used exclusively by corporations as part of their brand identities. Confronted with the question what these colors stand for our attention is drawn towards industrial complexity linking color, power and memory.
The research of both artists spotlight the transformation of contemporary color skills in art and photography and stimulate an innovative perspective on color-mapping and invisible color ownership. But the usage of color and non-color in contemporary artistic practice is also part of a much larger global discourse raising profound questions, if any substantial difference between culture and nature can be further maintained.
www.rozbehasmani.de
www.tomfecht.com
The presentation is primarily based on a visual dialog co-delivered by Mr. Fecht and Mr. Asmani.

GRAVITY FIELDs
TEFAF Maastricht 2017
Zona Maco 2017, Mexico D.F.
Design Miami / Miami 2016

28th Biennale des Antiquitaires 2016

Magic Moments

Prouvé – Takis

Tefaf Maastricht 2016
STUDIO NEWS
The DKM Foundation acquired a selection of works by Tom Fecht.
They are now on permanent display as part of DKM’s contemporary museum collection.
An English/German catalogue of the exhibition will be published in spring 2019, including an introduction by Siegfried Zielinski (ZKM) and an essay by Irmgard Benrieder.

New museum acquisition
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège, Belgium recently acquired
Finis Terrae, (Into the Open), 1997 for its new exhibition site La Boverie
as part of their contemporary collection.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège
En Féronstrée 86
4000 Liège
Belgium
Website
Other museum collections with works by Tom Fecht include:
Neue National Galerie / Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin (SMPK), Germany
Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Bonn, Germany
MuCEM – Museé National des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée Marseille, France
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany
Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen, Germany
Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Bonn, Germany
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren, Germany
UNIQUE PRINTS POLICY

Installation view of Eclipse #8090, 2013 and The Wave by Gustave Courbet, 1870
(Retour de Mer, Musée des Beaux Arts – LAAC, Dunkerque, France 2014)
Re-evaluating my work, I have decided to avoid the comfort of repetition. As of 2012 every new photograph is limited to one print so that each image remains as unique as the moment it captures. In addition I will retain one artist proof (AP/EA) for my own reference and/or exhibitions. Editions prior to 2012 will be either sold through or discontinued.
TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS
Hans Belting: Gisèle Freund en face
English Français Deutsch
Irmgard Bernrieder: Gravity Fields
English Deutsch
Ute Guzzoni: Finis Terrae – Into the Open
English Français Deutsch

Incertitudes
An introduction to DARK MATTERs
By Emma Nilsson and Gérard Klein
28 pages / 30 x 18 cm / 19 illustrations
PDF

Michael Petry: The Word is Art
Tom Fecht: Homage – Names and Stones, in:
Michael Petry: The Word is Art
Mémoire nomade – Documenta IX, Kassel 1992
(by courtesy of Documenta Archive Kassel)
Thames & Hudson, London 2018
ISBN: 978-0-50-023966-7

Tiefenzeit / DeepTime
Dirk Krämer and Klaus Maas (ed.): Tom Fecht at Museum DKM, Duisburg 2018.
Exhibition catalogue.
Introductions by Siegfried Zielinski and Emma Nilsson.
Essay by Irmgard Bernrieder.
ISBN 978-3-942650-13-7 (German/English edition)

ECLIPSE
25 unique vintage prints
With an essay by Hans Irrek and published by Laffanour Galerie DOWNTOWN, Paris 2015. Hardcover 80 pages 26.5 x 36 cm ISBN 978-2-9520349-4-4 (available at the gallery)
Website
About the author: Hans Irrek is a German essayist and curator; he studied art history, aesthetics and philosophy. His publications on photography and art and design classics include essays on Andreas Gursky, Axel Hütte, Mikael Olsson, Isamu Noguchi, and Oscar Niemeyer. He is a member of the advisory board of the Photo Book Museum, Germany

ON SIGNATUREs
“The potent simplicity of FixingNature becomes as challenging as its evolutionary matrix and spatial complexity. Nature as we see it, is a product of culture: as a matter of fact, nature, understood as a projection of human imagination, can be creatively manipulated and re-arranged. After all is it not a given, that any difference between nature and culture can no longer be maintained? Nature and culture seem to be the two extremities of an infinite Möbius loop where both sides are bound to become the very other …”

Flusseriana – An Intellectual Toolbox
Tom Fecht: Mirror and Transformation
Contributing to: Flusseriana – An Intellectual Toolbox
Edited by Siegfried Zielinski and Peter Weibel
ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe and Univocal Publishing
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2015
ISBN 9-781937-561529 (English-German-Portuguese edition)

Refocusing the Euclidian Horizon
Tom Fecht: Refocusing the Euclidian Horizon (including illustrations from the night series Electric Cinema) in: The Cornell Journal of Architecture #9: Mathematics, Ithaca, New York 2014 pp. 4 – 16.
ISBN 978-0-9785061-2-4
STILL AVAILABLE

Umzug ins Offene
Tom Fecht and Dietmar Kamper (ed.): Umzug ins Offene – Vier Versuche über den Raum
(Movement into the Open – Four Studies on Space). Springer Verlag Wien New York, 2000
ISBN 3-211-83476-1

Namen und Steine
Tom Fecht – Namen und Steine, Mémoire Nomade. Edited by Ulrich Heide and Dietmar Kamper. Cologne 1993, Bonn 1998, Springer Verlag Wien New York, 2001
Other
DeepTime/TiefenZeit (Exhibition catalogue) Museum DKM, Duisburg 10/2018
Incertitudes, Munich/Paris 9/2018
FixingNature (Catalogue Arik Levy), Paris 11/2016
Crash, Paris 10/2015
Jean Atali Retour de Mer, Editions Dilecta, Paris 2014
Inventario, Milano 7/2014
Kunstforum International Vol 220 1/2013
GoGolobal Rural-Urban, London/Beijing 4/2012
selected views 12/11
Le Monde, Paris 6/11
Top Basel, 1/11
Ouest France, Rennes 7/10
Le Télégramme, Morlaix 7/10
FAZ, Frankfurt 10/09
Channel Thirteen, NYC 1/09
Les Conférences de Malaquais, Paris 10/08
The New York Times 9/08
Morgenbladet, Oslo 8/08
EQULIBRIUM, London 3/08
AXIS, Tokyo 10/07
Design, Beijing 6/07
Performance Research: On Beckett, Devon 3/07
Menschen, Bonn 1/07
O Globo, Rio de Janeiro 10/06
AXIS, Tokyo 10/06
The New York Times 8/06
Dialogue, Taiwan 3/06
new design, London 2/06
BLUEPRINT, London 1/06
Pure PSP, UK 1/06
Edge 1/06
Dialogue, Taiwan 12/05
DIE ZEIT, Hamburg 12/05
The Inquirer 11/05
Bladid, Iceland 11/05
BLUEPRINT, London 9/05
bob, Graz 1/05