Lucifer’s Vortex

TOM FECHT

08.03.2021 – 05.09.2021

Tom Fecht, Lucifer's Vortex, 2020
Photo: Tom Fecht

With Lucifer’s Vortex, the Museum DKM is staging the second extensive exhibition of the artist Tom Fecht (DE, 1952), which focuses on his dramatic night photography. Tom Fecht’s artistic practice is strongly influenced by his earlier career as an engineer and art historian. Both complex visual media of scientific research and art-historical research as well as art historical references have enriched the repertoire of his photographic imagination and form the starting point for the exhibition Lucifer’s Vortex photographic studies of the sea and portraits.

Works in the exhibition

Entrance area

INCERTITUDE, 2020
poster, offset print
176 x 265 x 12 cm

Finis Terrae (Moving into the Open), 1999/2007
c-print
36 x 56 cm

Room I

LUCIFER’s VORTEX. Entre Chien et Loup, 2018
unique thermo-sublimation print, aluminium frame with diffuser and dimmable LED backlighting
176 x 265 x 12 cm

The Crossing (Mont Saint Michel), 2004
fine art piezo pigment print, aludibond
48 x 40 cm

Room II

FIGURINE (Gravitational Spin), 1999 / 2016
silvergelatin vintage print with selenium toning on baryta paper
126 x 101 x 4 cm

Tides #316, #331,#334, #335, #336, #337, #340, #341, #344, #350, #352, #357, #365, #366, #368, 2011/2018
15 marine miniatures, piezo pigment prints on permajet 285 g/m²
each 43 x 33 cm

Luciferines, 2021
c-prints on aluminium
180 x 125 cm each

Electric Cinema I to X, 2007-2011
piezo pigment print
each 70 x 212 cm

Room III

BASICS, 1997/2018
silver gelatin, hand print from negative 8”x10”Baryt paper
249 x 128 cm

JACOB’s LADDER, 2005/2021
c-print
36,5 x 56,5 cm (frame size)

Room IV

Jacob’s Ladder, 1999
silver gelatin, baryte paper laminated on 2 mm aluminium
246 x 126 cm

Gravity Mirror, 2016
polished stainless steel
183 x 49,5 x 0,5 cm

Luciferine #2479, 2020
unique fine art piezo-pigment print; steel frame
107,5 x 78,3 cm