Robert Fichter

Robert Fichter's (1939 – 2023) photographs, prints, books and computer works are lush and dense works dealing with complex sociopolitical issues concerning humankind and its interaction with, and destruction of, the natural environment. While Fichter's concerns are made clear, they do not undermine the originality, aesthetic quality and richness of his works.

Hurricane Signal

Fichter set up complicated tableaux of objects and images and photographed the scenes with a large size view camera to achieve the positive transparencies used to make a series of cibachrome photographs. Running through the photographs as a theme is the revenge of nature against the predations of man, as in Hurricane Signal, which shows human dolls being devoured by stuffed large-mouth bass.

Atom Struck Tile The Explosion Center Hiroshima Shade/Light

Fichter also created a color lithograph and combination lithograph and offset, on the theme of nuclear holocaust and its effects on humans.

Mutant Magic #1: Baby Gene Pool Takes The Stage, Total Readymade

Fichter address political, cultural, and environmental themes using a highly personal and eccentric troupe of fantastic creatures he has dubbed his “Cast-O-Characters.”

 

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