Claude Fischer

Graphic Obsessions : "Eye openers" by Josef Albers
Transversality is graphic designer & illustrator Claude FISCHER's motto
At the crossroad of numerous techniques, some artisanal (scraping, copying, painting, photography), others hyper-technological (computerised graphism, bug recycling), he accumulates the most diverse materials to create the most peculiar images. Loaded with signs, hidden pin-ups or head-to-toe created characters, his hybrid creations are the result of a well-mastered mix of heterogeneous elements and computerised accidents.
He has used and abused his bugs and has developed a technique of his own. Claude searches for these exceptionally gifted machines’ most improbable possibilities. This “cybertechnic cherry-picker” dives very deep into his softwares and explores them to uncover entirely new creative spaces.
He also is a completely now kind of artist, with numerous influences and an unrestrained imagination. He mixes 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's cut outs from fashion magazines, pictures of all sorts of weird devices found on industrial internet sites, colours stolen from the most edgy ads. Then his approach reverts back to a classical one: gathering, archiving then assembling. Before all the works of this graphist & illustrator seems to feed itself abundantly from the night beats of all these european cities, all under information overflow. Claude follows similar paths to Lichtenstein and Warhol's pop art explosions. His art is based on repetitiveness and image reworkings.
Recognisable typical XXIst century traits are: creation, sampling & visual recycling. In times where images are paramount, his "art constructions" have a soul that makes them quite special. An instinct that, in some way, moulds shapes and spaces (squares and rectangles) whose variety in size and technique tell a lot about their author. As a result, his creations are a fine and extraordinary mix of styles: retro-chic or modernists, forgotten eras or acidulous manga colours.
The Bauhaus painter, Josef ALBERS, defined his "Squares" that way : "stable and dynamic, flat but deep, colourfull thus colourless, plain however complex". The graphic obsessions Claude creates are of the very same kind. The "Silicium Age" does of course not wipe artisanal techniques away… and Claude's creations are a striking proof of this!