Museum of Münich

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TECHNICAL DATA

Author: Roland Fischer (Saarbrücken, Alemania, 1958)
Title: Museum of Munich
Year: 2009
Technique: C-Print Diasec mounted on plexiglass
Size: 180 x 125 cm
Edition: 4/5

This work by Roland Fischer, the result of his Façade Series (F17), was acquired by the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation at the 2012 International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO) in Madrid to be included in its contemporary photography collection. It is an excellent example of the compositions that the German artist has been making since the 1990s, based on façades of important buildings in large cities around the world where he developed a striking visual language of architectural structures, such as a formal and conceptual alphabet of abstract forms and historical references.

In this inventory of metropolitan examples, the piece focuses on the façade of the Brandhorst Museum in Munich, which opened in 2009 as a new jewel of contemporary art in the city. This building, designed by the Berliners Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton, has the appearance of a cube-like box of coloured chocolates, and is part of the Munich art circuit, near the Ancient and Modern art galleries. Through the external structure, Fischer establishes a kind of dialogue between painting and photography, exploring the concepts of structure, colour, rhythm and geometry to contextualise the building and its time-space relationships. As such, it promotes the development of visual worlds defined by aesthetics, form and content, as the essence of a compositional game that departs from archetypes or dogmas to focus on the visual experience.