In spring 2002, the artist Eric Fischl organized a three-day foto-session in Haus Esters, Krefelder Kunstmuseen. The house was temporarily completely furnished and <<inhabited>> by two actors. Photographs of everyday-scenes already were a component of Fischls repertoire for a long time, but here he took photos of a disruptive new mixture of facts and fictions -- actors, acting as common individuals, in an artificial domestic surrounding.

From the approximately two thousand photographies, that the artist shot during the action, he finally chose photo-collages as sketches for a painting-cycle, that is presented in twelve large-sized works in Europe for the first time.

The series of the twelve pictures embodies an essential expansion and synthesis of Fischl’s previous work.

biography

1948 born in New York

1968/69 studies at the Arizona State University, Phoenix

1970--73 studies at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

1974 studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art an Design, Halifax, Kanada