Rudi Domidian
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{{short description|German photographer and artist}}
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| name = Karl Rudi Domidian
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| birth_place = Bad Kreuznach, Germany
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| movement = Fluxus
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Rudi Domidian (born 5 June 1954) is a German artist, who calls himself "Hundefaenger", creating installation art and land art, which he photographs.{{Cite news|last=Schildberger|first=Rainer|date=2020-03-27|title=Wegmarkierungen eines Lebenskünstlers - Birdshit|language=de|work=Deutschlandfunk|url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/wegmarkierungen-eines-lebenskuenstlers-birdshit.3720.de.html?dram:article_id=470047|access-date=2020-03-27}}
Early life
Karl Rudi Domidian was born in Bad Kreuznach. He spent a lot of time in nearby woods, liked to draw. At the age of 17 he walked alone through Scotland. His parents did not support an artistic, but a commercial career. At the age of 23 he organized his first exhibition.
Career
Domidian had his own studio at the age of 27. In 1984, aged 30, he liberated himself with Joseph Beuys' idea of human interactions as social sculpture. His first campaign was to hike the Pyrenees with friends, creating stone circles and to accept this as art.
In 1994, he met his wife Marion, a psychology student, and relocated to Bochum, Wuppertal and Norderney where she was studying. He worked odd temporary jobs, for example in exhibition stand construction, as warehouse clerk, as a toilet man with Opel. He surprised his employer asking for vacation to accept an invitation to attend an exhibition of his work in Korea.
In 2004, he moved to Sigmaringen, where his wife was employed at the hospital, and explored the woods, where he has been laying stone circles, suspending snail shells and arranging found wood. He has called these markings acts of "small anarchy", which cause confrontations with forest workers. His art collides with the demonstration of power by the local mainstream sculpture of the Hohenzollern, owner of the forest.{{Clarify|reason=is this a reference to Sigmaringen Castle?|date=July 2020}}
With the arrival of refugees in Germany in 2015/ 2016 Domidian received an assignment to create a sculpture with found wood. Unlike his installations in the forest, which decay by themselves, he was ordered to remove them for fear that the wood poles could be used as weapons.
=Work=
From 2002-2015 he created numerous installations, as listed on Domidian´s website.{{Cite web |url=http://hundefaenger.de/Hundefanger/AKTIONEN_%26_WERKE.html |title=Aktionen, Werke |date=2020-03-27 |website=Hundefaenger}}{{Primary source inline|date=July 2020}}
Exhibitions:
- 2015. "Roundabout", Weingarten{{Cite news |url=https://kulturzentrum-linse.de/wp/2015/06/domidian-hundefaenger-roundabout/ |title=Domidian Hundefaenger: Roundabout |date=2015-06-22 |work=Kulturzentrum LINSE in Weingarten bei Ravensburg |access-date=2020-03-27 |language=de-DE}}{{Better source needed|date=July 2020|reason=source is an announcement}}
- 2016. "Houses of the Holy IV", installation boathouse Sigmaringen.{{Cite news |last=Loescher |first=Kurt |url=https://www.suedkurier.de/region/linzgau/sigmaringen/Kunst-auf-der-Dachterrasse-des-Bootshauses-in-Sigmaringen;art372574,9034326 |title=Sigmaringen: Kunst auf der Dachterrasse des Bootshauses in Sigmaringen |date=2016-12-06 |work=Südkurier |access-date=2020-03-27 |language=de}}
- 2016. "landart", 20 years of twin cities Sigmaringen - Feldkirch{{Cite web |url=https://www.wohintipp.at/2016/eroeffnung-nhundefaenger-karl-rudi-domidian-landart/feldkirch |title=Eröffnung: –hundefaenger Karl Rudi Domidian: "landart" |last1=Reichenfeld-Areal |last2=Pförtnerh.-Konservatorium-Hallenb.-Musiksch. |date=2016-07-09 |website=Wohintipp |language=de |access-date=2020-03-27 |last3=Feldkirch}}{{Better source needed|date=July 2020|reason=source is an announcement}}
- 2017. Karl Rudi Domidian, Galerie Weilheim, Kunstforum II{{Cite news |last=Amac |first=Turgay |url=https://galerie-auf-zeit.blogspot.com/2017/10/galerie-kunstforum-ii-karl-rudi-domidian.html |title=Galerie auf Zeit: Galerie Kunstforum II - Karl Rudi Domidian |date=2017-10-08 |access-date=2020-03-27}}{{Better source needed|date=July 2020|reason=source is an announcement}}
- 2017. Roundabout, Zweibrücken{{Cite news |last= Stefan Folz |url=https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/zweibruecken/artikel/kreisrunde-harmonie/ |title=Kreisrunde Harmonie |date=2017-05-03 |work=Die RHEINPFALZ |access-date=2020-03-27 |language=de}}
- 2018. Sieben Kirschbäume, Sigmaringen{{Cite news |last=Loges |first=Gabriele |url=https://www.schwaebische.de/landkreis/landkreis-sigmaringen/sigmaringen_artikel,-auf-dem-wittberg-liegt-kunst-im-wald-_arid,10973832.html |title=Auf dem Wittberg liegt Kunst im Wald |date=2020-12-03 |access-date=2020-03-27 |language=de}}
- 2019.„ich bin da – in bad+nach mit kirppu“, Bad Kreuznach{{Cite news |last=Beate Vogt-Gladigau |url=https://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/bad-kreuznach/stadt-bad-kreuznach/der-bad-kreuznacher-klaus-rudi-domidian-stellt-fotos-aus_20047162 |title=Der Bad Kreuznacher Klaus Rudi Domidian stellt Fotos aus - |date=2019-03-29 |work=Allgemeine Zeitung, VRM GmbH & Co |access-date=2020-03-27 |language=de}}
- 2019 Installation LEA Sigmaringen{{Cite news |url=https://www.schwaebische.de/landkreis/landkreis-sigmaringen/sigmaringen_artikel,-installation-des-k%C3%BCnstlers-hundefaenger-ziert-jetzt-die-lea-_arid,11052248.html |title=Installation des Künstlers Hundefaenger ziert jetzt die LEA |date=2019-05-12 |work=Allgemeine Zeitung |access-date=2020-03-27 |language=de}}
- Photo book „shit art by birds“ - Art Zines (antipodes 09), V.E.B. Freie Brandstiftung (2016).
Personal life
In 2004, he and his wife settled in an apartment in Sigmaringen. In 2014 his wife died.
He is a board member of the Schwäbischer Albverein, where he is a speaker and coordinator of hiking and trail maintenance.
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDvKCq77ikk Interview with Rudi Domidian on sound performance for land art symposium Nuernberg] YouTube, August 23, 2010 (in Palatine German language).
- [http://www.a.performancelife.com/Hundefaenger.htm Beitrag zu "a performancelife" von Hundefänger Karl Rudi Domidian:für Sarah und für Ilske] performancelife.com, 15 March 2005
- [https://www.pfaelzischer-merkur.de/region/mehr-regionales/kunst-im-vorbeigehen_aid-2300943 Kunst im Vorbeigehen] Pfaelzischer Merkur about KunstZwergFestival, 7 August 2012
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB9dfISE78I Horschemo - Rudi Domidian "Hundefänger"] Interview with Rudi Domidian about HEIMAT and ART, YouTube, October 26, 2014 (in German).
- [https://www.outdooractive.com/de/poi/stuttgart-und-umgebung/hundefaenger-karl-rudi-domidian-schichtung-und-anlehnung-fuer-den/31026341/ Hike to hundefaenger installation Schönbuchturm near Herrenberg] Outdooractive.com
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Category:Photographers from Rhineland-Palatinate
Category:Fine art photographers
Category:German landscape photographers
Category:German nature photographers
Category:21st-century German photographers