Roland Fischer

Since the 1980s, Roland Fischer has been developing different series of work on a solid and consistent career using architecture and portraiture as subjects presenting them on a large scale photographs. The Facades series, for example, attempts to understand architecture as a modernist painting using its formal principles: color, rhythm, shape, shadow, composition, patterns, to show how globalized culture has a common and universal vocabulary. In “New Architectures” the composition is made simultaneously of pictures taken from many vantage points placed in one frame converting the work into an abstract visual photograph.

Roland Fischer‘s lives and works between Munich and Beijing. His work has already been shown in 120 museums and art institutions worldwide including Musée d’art Moderne in Paris, the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, The Photographers Gallery in London, Museum of Art Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, Museo DA2 in Salamanca, Centre Culturel la Maison Rouge in Paris, Institute d’Art Contemporain in France, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain in Paris (FNAC), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerp, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC). His work is represented in many public and private collections.