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(1) Tomi Ungerer, Tomi: A Childhood decorate the Nazis (1998)

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Ever restless, Ungerer worked in many mediums and styles; from illustration to collage and sculpture, from architectural design to philosophical writing to inventions and pranks.

“First of all, it should be noted that Ungerer is free.
Free to borrow different ways and voices according to his moods, anxieties and the urgency of the moment…   Nothing, nobody, can enclose him in a box. Because if he is free, it is primarily his unclassifiable dimension that characterizes him. Ungerer has traversed the history of contemporary art, dare we say, without ever seeking to position himself and even less to stand out.”

– Erik Verhagen

Tomi Ungerer Museum-International Centre for Illustration

The Tomi Ungerer Museum

A significant proportion of his artwork is exhibited at theTomi Ungerer Museum in Strasbourg. Tomi donated 14,000 drawings to his hometown. The museum also features other illustrators from the 20th century and today, as well as Tomi Ungerer’s collection of mechanical toys.

Ungerer’s solo exhibitions include many acclaimed institutions such as the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, the Wilhelm-Busch-Museum, Hanovre, the Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, the Stadtmuseum, München, the Max Ernst Muse

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Tomi Ungerer: Cul de Sac at Galerie Michael Fuchs

Together with Gallerist Michael Fuchs, we submitted a successful proposal for an exhibition of Tomi Ungerer’s work to be included as part of the Berlin Gallery Weekend.

For this exhibition we decided to focus primarily on Tomi’s contemporary collages and to also create a relationship between these pieces and a selection of his satirical drawings from the 1960’s – 1980’s.

The gallery has three exhibition spaces: a large open room, a smaller, more enclosed room and a corridor joining the two. The floors are raw concrete, the ceilings are high and the walls are white. It’s a very contemporary exhibition space and therefore a very different physical context in which to show Tomi’s work.

In the corridor and large space we hung the collages and in the smaller room I made a selection of drawings whose themes echoed those of the collages. We also showed some objets trouvé in this room. I always like to put some 3D work in relationship with the work on paper.

Michael made a genius choice to frame the collages in 19th century French frames – the juxtaposition between the new, highly satirical collages and these over the top gilded frames was an absolute visual treat and really served to highlight the political punch of many of