Andi Fischer
Untitled AF/P 90, Untitled AF/P 93
2024
H 49.5 x W 39.5 cm
Pencil and coloured pencil on paper
Original
In his unmistakably dynamic visual language, Andi Fischer takes up the great subjects of European art history. Time and again, man and animal meet, sometimes to hunt and sometimes to fight. Crocodiles, lions, ravens or snakes, knights and kings emancipate themselves playfully yet resolutely from their classical contexts and predetermined destinies. The artist draws his inspiration from medieval creatures and biblical events as well as Baroque history painting and mythology. Characteristic of Andi Fischer’s contemporary translation is the open outcome of the events shown. Everything is possible, nothing is sealed. There are always at least two opposing interpretations: the potential for great chaos or peaceful coexistence. Striking is the dragon, a creature from both European and Asian mythology. In contrast to its Western relative, which must invariably be defeated or impaled, the dragon has been symbolizing good fortune and strength in Southeast Asia since the Han dynasty.
The work has been auctioned off during the Charity Auction on March 22nd 2025 and creatively loaned by the generous bidder for Design Trust Charity Exhibition: Transformational Exceptions.
About Andi Fischer
Andi Fischer was born in 1987 in Nuremberg, Germany. After finishing his studies at the Fine Art Academy (UdK) in Berlin under Pofessor Thomas Zipp, he continues to live there. He is known for his figurative paintings of animals, people and landscapes, painted with a quick mixture of oil pastels and charcoal. In his works the artist tells universal stories that challenge and contradict the conventional demands of painting. Beyond pure provocation, he succeeds in transforming life in all its superficiality into crude and entirely hierarchical paintings. I love how rigorous children are in their way of drawing. They’re really strict with the beginning and stopping of lines. When they say they are done they are done, and you can see that in every line. That‘s what I also wish for my work: to work against roles and maybe also disappoint people in a way. There’s an obvious failure to obtain perfection, which is what makes them so human and vulnerable.
