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Daniel Fischer

Daniel Fischer

Born April 11 1950

The painter and printmaker connected with the unofficial Slovak normalisation scene skilfully combines elements of artificial art and technical image, classical painting and concept in his work. Like many of his creative peers, including members of the A-R Group, he contributes to the nature of Slovak neo-avant-garde art, which is deeply involved without obvert political escalation.
In the words of Jana Geržová, Daniel Fischer is above all an artist capable of reflection, and it is this ability that is the source of his creativity: “Dan Fischer’s work is not introspective and is not a seismograph of the current mood. Observation of the actual psychic states and psycho-social manifestations of the period is superior to the ability of self-reflection, which allows him to keep a certain distance from himself, from events that are underway, an ability that adds a noetic touch to the aesthetic quality of his paintings. It is satisfying that despite the great range of meaning in Dan Fischer's work, in which the aesthetic smoothly grows into the ethical, his paintings are not burdened with literariness and mentoring, but as true poetry they preserve and multiply the ability to create short connections.” (Jana Geržová, Daniel Fischer, KS Opatov, 1989)
(Barbora Kundračíková)


graphics, painting
Group exhibition catalogues
Jiří Valoch - Jana Geržová - Etienne Cornevin, A-R (Avance-Retard), Dom umenia Bratislava 1992.
Rudolf Fila - Peter Zajac, A-R (Avance-Retard), Ludwig Múzeum, 2001.

Catalogues for solo exhibitions
Daniel Fischer: Altamira (kat. výst.), Galerie pod podloubím Olomouc 1985.
Jana Geržová, Daniel Fischer (kat. výst.), Kulturní středisko Opatov, 1989.
Jana Geržová - Etienne Cornevin, Daniel Fischer: La Biennale di Venezia 1993.

Anthologies, books, publications
Václav Zykmund - Gerhard Komora, Daniel Fischer, 1982.
Zuzana Bartošová, Fila, Fischer, Hulík, Jankovič, Meliš, Nový Sad 1986.
Milan Adamčiak - Zuzana Bartošová, Nový slovenský obraz, Bratislava 1988.
Alena Vrbanová, Slovenská grafika 20. storočia, Bánská Bystrica 2006.
Katarína Rusnáková, História a teória mediálneho umenia na Slovensku, Bratislava 2006.
Zuzana Bartošová - Vladimíra Büngerová - Petr Vajda, Súčasné slovenské výtvarné umenie 1960 – 2000, Bratislava 2008.
Katarína Bajcurová - Aurel Hrabušický - Katarína Müllerová, Slovenský obraz (anti-obraz). 20. storočie v slovenskom výtvarnom umení, Bratislava 2008.
Jana Geržová (ed.), Rozhovory o maľbe. Pohlad na slovenskú maľbu prostrednictvom orálnej histórie. Bratislava 2009.

Monographs
Jana Geržová - Juraj Mojžíš, Daniel Fischer, Bratislava 2016.

Muzeum umění Olomouc 2011-2024