2017 European Conference – Color Marketing Group
Valencia, Spain May 17-19
COLOR MARKS and DARK MATTERs
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.
PRESS
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“.
WDR – 05.05.2017
Fotografien von Tom Fecht im Museum DKM, Duisburg
read moreMuseum 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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EXHIBITIONS / EVENTS 2016
Design Miami / Miami 2016
28th Biennale des Antiquitaires 2016
Magic Moments
Prouvé – Takis
Tefaf Maastricht 2016
STUDIO NEWS
This section is currently under construction.
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.
WRITINGS
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 …”
read morePUBLICATIONS
Eclipse – 25 unique vintage prints
Eclise, cover.
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
Intellectual Toolbox
Flusserania – An Intellectual Toolbox
Tom Fecht: Mirror and Transformation
Contributing to: Flusserania – 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
The Cornell Journal of Architecture #9: Mathematics, Ithaca, New York 2014 pp. 4 – 16
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
Other
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