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Roland Fischer | Night and Day

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2018
  • ROLAND FISCHER | NIGHT AND DAY Roland Fischer, among the most prominent voices in German photography today, has completed a...

    Aurora McFee, Beth Sheehan, and Jennifer Lowery | Proofing Night and Day

     

    ROLAND FISCHER | NIGHT AND DAY

     

    Roland Fischer, among the most prominent voices in German photography today, has completed a new portfolio with Durham Press. Titled Night and Day, the portfolio of twelve works in an edition of forty-four depicting abstracted architecture are the first woodblock prints the artist has created with the Press.

     

    Renowned for his large-format photographs of buildings in locales ranging from his adopted hometowns of Munich and Beijing to cities across the world, Fischer produces detailed views of modern and contemporary architecture. He often captures facades up close, transforming them into abstracted, flattened patterns. His images emphasize each structure’s distinctive qualities while simultaneously calling attention to the homogenizing impact of globalization. Without the context of a skyline or geographic elements, many of these pictures conceivably could have been taken in almost any metropolis in the world.

     

    Night and Day is a new extension of this photographic work both in concept and medium. Rather than depict existing buildings, the portfolio presents a collection of imagined constructions and reconstructions. The artist extracted shapes and lines from various images he has accumulated during his travels and used these as the basis for series of new compositions. While the resulting prints can be read as hard-edge and purely geometric, the viewer can also imagine them as architectural forms: one might be a section of a modernist grid, others a curving staircase reminiscent of Zaha Hadid’s, or others an undulating roofline designed by Herzog & de Meuron.

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    The works were printed in relief, each with multiple individually inked woodblocks allowing the artist to further distill and simplify the shapes. However, by using a “rainbow roll” technique (two inks blended together to create a gradient on the same roller), Fischer imbued each with an illusion of volume and a sense of a dynamism that echoes the drama of Italian Futurism, a group of artists who similarly turned toward abstraction as a way to understand their rapidly changing cities. Evoking both past conceptions of metropolitan futures and the cutting-edge constructions of this century, Night and Day is, in Roland Fischer’s words, “a reflection on our contemporary, perhaps urban, visual reality.”

     

    Night and Day, as well as other works by Roland Fischer, are available directly through Durham Press. For more information, please contact us at sales@durhampress.com.

  • Roland Fischer | Proofing Night and Day (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Aurora McFee | Inking a woodblock in Rainbow Roll (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Proofing Night and Day (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jennifer Lowery | Inking woodblocks (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Roland Fischer | Proofing Night and Day

    • Roland Fischer Night and Day I Print Edition
      Roland Fischer, Night and Day I, 2018
    • Roland Fischer Night and Day II Print Edition
      Roland Fischer, Night and Day II, 2018
    • Roland Fischer Night and Day III Print Edition
      Roland Fischer, Night and Day III, 2018
    • Roland Fischer Night and Day IV Print Edition
      Roland Fischer, Night and Day IV, 2018
    • Roland Fischer Night and Day V Print Edition
      Roland Fischer, Night and Day V, 2018
    • Roland Fischer Night and Day IV Print Edition
      Roland Fischer, Night and Day VI, 2018
    • Roland Fischer Night and Day VII Print Edition
      Roland Fischer, Night and Day VII, 2018
    • Roland Fischer Night and Day VIII Print Edition
      Roland Fischer, Night and Day VIII, 2018
    • Roland Fischer Night and Day IX Print Edition
      Roland Fischer, Night and Day IX, 2018
    • Roland Fischer Night and Day X Print Edition
      Roland Fischer, Night and Day X, 2018
    • Roland Fischer Night and Day XI Print Edition
      Roland Fischer, Night and Day XI, 2018
    • Roland Fischer Night and Day XII Print Edition
      Roland Fischer, Night and Day XII, 2018
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