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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.

Khytera, Transhistorical Places, 2022
C-print Diasec®, 211 x 160cm | 160 x 121cm
Hieronymus I, Cathedrals, 2016
C-print/Diasec
220 x 155 cm
Hieronymous II, Cathedrals, 2016
C-print Diasec®, 166 x 225 cm
Champalimaud,, New Architectures, 2020
C-print Diasec®, 164 x 217 cm
Casa das Histórias, New Architectures, 2020
C-print Diasec®, 180 x 180 cm
Campo Maior, New Architectures, 2011
C-print Diasec®, 164 x 212,3 cm
The Museum, New Architectures, 2014
C-print/Diasec
180 x 221 cm
Hydra, Transhistorical Places, 2022
C-print Diasec®, 211 x 160cm | 160 x 121cm

“Displaying the cultural diversity of today’s world is one of the objectives reflected in the lens of Roland Fischer’s camera. This German artist, an author of grand portraits, a master of impeccable finishes and elegant distances, skilfully combines his admiration for the history of art with a fascination for contemporary architecture. In this sense, just as he outlines the head and shoulders of his models against the water in resemblance to Nefertiti, he is equally capable of focusing on the most radical contributions of contemporary architecture.There is not a single work by Roland Fischer that fails to speak to us of the traces left by man and the world that surrounds us. Regardless of whether he is revealing his love for a hidden garden, or seducing us with the visual boldness of a magnificent abstract façade, his work is a lesson in empathy for tradition and innovation. Indeed, his dogged determination to seek out cultural forms comes as no surprise to us, for we are all too aware that he is a delicate hunter of times of consciousness.” Pilar Ribal 

Museum, Munich, Façades, 2011
C-print/Diasec
180 x 125 cm
BP, Shanghai, Façades, 2011
C-print/Diasec
180 x 125 cm
Lenbachhaus, Munich, Façades, 2013
2013
C-print/Diasec
180 x 125 cm
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