Thomas Locher: Mobile Museum: From A to B

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As a conceptual artist Thomas Locher‘s work examines the complex relations between words, images, language and definition. In so doing, Locher works with such themes as grammar, psychoanalysis, law and communication.

Mobile Museum Concept: From A to B

Von A nach B Foto: Ulli Lindenmann

Thomas Locher will cover the outer facade of the Mobile Museum with a vast black and blue writing of " Von A nach B " ( ' From A to B' ). Due to the corners and angles of the different constructions of the Mobile Museums, the writing and individual letters themselves will be creased and cut at unexpected moments, but will continue on the neighbouring facade at an angle of 90 degrees; what is a sign, will appear as a drawing - a clue to what is to come and a reference to what has been.
     The clear and conclusive statement " Von A nach B " will be continually broken. What appears as a normal from left to right written two dimensional script, will become its own identity, shaped by the architecture of the Mobile Museums. Whether observed from the back or the front, from left or right, top or bottom, the writing will attract interest, movement and fascination in and out of the spaces, in and around the Mobile Museums.

Projects

Präambel und Grundrechte im Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland
(Preamble and Rights of the Constitution of the Republic of Germany )
Artikel 1-19
[Diskurs]
Kunstverein München 1995

On the walls of the exhibition space, Locher did an exact reproduction of Article 1-19 from the preamble and rights of the constitution of the German Republic . Painted in a column on the right side of the wall one read Article 1-19 intersected with small little red numbers. On the left side of the same wall, also placed in a column, one found the corresponding little red numbers, but with an enormous accumulation of questions and commentries associated specifically to the number. To the left one reads an official text of the German Republic , to the right one reads the written language of the people of the German Republic . On one side one has a political process, on the other side one has a process of reflection, of analysis and of understanding.

"Everything has more than only two sides"
Sukûn-Stille - Mobile Städtische Galerie Essen, 2003

"A ticket permits one to travel from A to B. One can also travel from B to A. Either or neither. Naturally, I do not know what awaits me at A or at B or anywhere else. Perhaps nothing. Perhaps something unbelievable. Possibly, something completely unexpected will happen. Perhaps there is nothing to expect and absolutely nothing will happen.
     But what definitely does happen, is the journey itself. And, every journey, no matter how short it may be, is not just a normal relocation of place. A journey is also a metaphysical interim, a transition. Something that one can neither clearly nor dialectically explain. To this, I would like to say the following: During such a transition, I wish to avoid any thought connected to or similar with tribulation. Just being there is difficult enough. Reflecting about a wish, I find much better. The best thing of all, would be to make a wish."

Jedes Ding hat mehr als nur zwei Seiten, Sukûn-Stille - Mobile Städtische Galerie Essen, 2003

CV

Since 2000 lives in Berlin

Solo Exhibitions (selection)