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Peter Fend
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Peter Fend is interested in the creative transition “from image to plan.” He considers himself more of an architect than artist in his desire to gather authoritative evidence on global issues and seek out solutions. His writing, collages, paintings, and appropriated imagery often take the form of research reports that might impart knowledge on his viewer. In the 1979 he organized the Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince, & Winters as a satellite of Colab, another active artist’s collective in New York City, to intervene in policy as an independent non-governmental agency. It dissolved shortly thereafter but its mantra was revived in 1980 by Fend as the Ocean Earth Development Corporation. Referred to as OCEAN EARTH, the agency was responsible for the circulation of satellite imagery to media outlets that broke stories in Chernobyl, the Falklands, and the war in Iran-Iraq. They experimented with corporate image making and communication, striving to heighten the awareness of foreign atrocities. Fend has regularly roused interest in causes like water distribution, nuclear power, and the negotiation of international borders, among other things, through his art and continues to expand its capabilities. Fend has been involved with residencies under art-science monikers and international-relations covers, …
Peter Fend is interested in the creative transition “from image to plan.” He considers himself more of an architect than artist in his desire to gather authoritative evidence on global issues and seek out solutions. His writing, collages, paintings, and appropriated imagery often take the form of research reports that might impart knowledge on his viewer. In the 1979 he organized the Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince, & Winters as a satellite of Colab, another active artist’s collective in New York City, to intervene in policy as an independent non-governmental agency. It dissolved shortly thereafter but its mantra was revived in 1980 by Fend as the Ocean Earth Development Corporation. Referred to as OCEAN EARTH, the agency was responsible for the circulation of satellite imagery to media outlets that broke stories in Chernobyl, the Falklands, and the war in Iran-Iraq. They experimented with corporate image making and communication, striving to heighten the awareness of foreign atrocities. Fend has regularly roused interest in causes like water distribution, nuclear power, and the negotiation of international borders, among other things, through his art and continues to expand its capabilities. Fend has been involved with residencies under art-science monikers and international-relations covers, in Australia, Russia, Denmark, and France, among other places. His work and activism has been written about extensively.
Born 1950
Lives and Works New York, New York and Berlin, Germany
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