World Masters
Creating One World through Arts & Culture
Europe
Christoph Rihs
  • FieldArt Departments / Scupture, installation , Photograph
  • CountrySwitzerland

 An Artist(Sculpture, Installation, Photography) interested in understanding the way we grasp the world around us( How do we understand the world around us and how can he explain it using his media, his art work)

 

1. Used photography as a tool and technique to accomplish installations in the early '80s, it later on became part of sculpture's surface

2. In the 90's, started using world maps for the similarity in the view of our surroundings

3. Sculptures are used all sort of concepts, techniques and materials-choices are made according to the placement, history and surroundings of the future art work. His composite photographic images are trying overlap each so as to complete a spherical image plane. In the assembly process he put the images together on transparent levels

4. Grant by the state of Thueringia, 2008

5. Artist in residence at the Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwanju-city, Gyeong-do, Korea, 2008-2009

6. Daejon, Art Canal Fluid( as well in Switzerland), 2006

7. Personal show, Mongin Studio Program,in Korea, 2009