Thomas Locher

  • 1-14, 1994 / 1999
    graved astralon on wood
    59.06 x 59.06 x 2.76 in
  • 1-15, 1994 / 1999
    graved astralon on wood
    59.06 x 59.06 x 2.76 in
  • 1-15, 1994 / 1999
    graved astralon on wood
    59.06 x 59.06 x 2.76 in
  • 1-11 (11 parts), 1997
    graved astralon on wood
    each 15.75 x 15.75 x 2.95 in
  • Grundgesetz ART. 16a
    print, framed
    23.62 x 35.43 in
  • IN COMMUNICATION 2001/02
    glass, mirrored wooden frame
    66.93 x 40.55 x 2.36 in

* born 1956 in Munderkingen

From 1979 to 1985 he studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and from 1981 to 1985 at the University of Stuttgart. In the winter semester of 1997/98 he was a guest lecturer at the Merzakademie in Stuttgart. From 2008 to 2016 he was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Thomas Locher is a member of the German Artists' Association.[1] He lived in Cologne from 1986 to 2000 and now works and lives in Berlin and Copenhagen.

Locher's conceptual works, which are based heavily on French structuralism, deal with the problems of language and signs and the possibilities of producing images that reflect the meaning of the signified and signified without using terms and sentences. The result of these reflections are his “number works”, geometric compositions reminiscent of concrete art with numbered or lettered homogeneous color areas.

Other works include quotes from different authors in large block letters, “commented” by bags of paint that have cracked on the surface of the image. The quotes are occasionally taken from classics of Marxist economic theory, such as: B. Karl Marx or Alfred Sohn-Rethel, or official documents, such as. B. the UN Convention against Torture.[2] An example is the series “Marx Works” with text fragments from Das Kapital by Karl Marx.

His series “Gift” consists of photographic works in black and white with excerpts that show hands and gestures in the context of negotiations, discussions or the conclusion of contracts. The individual images are each accompanied by quotes from Jacques Derrida's book “Donner le Temps”.

Exhibitions

2023 
works from the nineties, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin

2020
Visual Semiotics, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt[3]

2019
Thomas Locher. The Shape of Words to Come. Edge / Corner / Margin, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid

2017
Dead Letters. Living Words. Dying Metaphors. graft, press, hang, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

2015
Post-Information, Galerie Silberkuppe, Berlin

2015
Doors, KMD Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp/The Forestay Museum of Art, Cully, Schweiz

2014
Two Postures. WALLWORK #12, Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V., Berlin

2014
Absent Things, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid