Roman Signer

Gerhard Mack, Paula van den Bosch, Jeremy Millar

160 pages, parution le 14/09/2006

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Résumé

Since the mid 1970s Roman Signer has examined the forces of the elements - air, fire, earth and water - in a combination of performance (documented by photography and video) and sculpture (the physical remains of his acts). With a Dadaist love for the absurd, his artworks include Race (1981), in which the artist races a rocket across a field (hopelessly behind from the outset, the artist loses by nearly the entire length); Action at Hotel Weissbad (1992), in which an ordinary table is shot out a hotel window, the resulting photographs showing a table flying incongruously over a sleepy Swiss village; Power of Rain (1974), in which rainwater gathers slowly in a funnel until its force shatters a block of plaster; and Bicycle with Rockets (1991), the photographs of which show a fiery bicycle flying through the gallery like a demon comet. Often Signer will exhibit in the gallery the remains of an event not witnessed by the public, such as four empty barrels and a violently splattered wall, the remains of an explosion of paint in the gallery space (Portrait Gallery, 1993), or four sand piles with perfectly round craters on each, the neat result of four simultaneous explosions at their peaks (Cones of Sand, 1988).

Roman Signer's work has been exhibited at major venues across Europe and North America, as well as important international exhibitions such as Documenta 8 (1987), Skulptur Projekte in Munster (1997) and the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), in which he represented Switzerland.

L'auteur - Gerhard Mack

Gerhard Mack, an art and architecture critic based in Switzerland, has written extensively on the work of Roman Signer.

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L'auteur - Paula van den Bosch

Paula van den Bosch is the Curator of Contemporary Art at Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, where she organized a major retrospective of Roman Signer's work in 2000.

L'auteur - Jeremy Millar

Jeremy Millar is an artist, a critic and a curator who has organized exhibitions at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Photographers'Gallery, and the ICA in London.

Sommaire

Interview Paula van den Bosch in conversation with Roman Signer
Survey. Gerhard Mack, Modulations of Time and Space: The Work of Roman Signer
Focus. Jeremy Millar, Wanderweg
Artist's Choice. F. Sauter, On Ball Lightning, 1895
Artist's writings
- A Conversation with Lutz Tittely 1984
- Proposal for Actions in Graz, 1987
- St Gallen Art Prize Acceptance Speech, 2003

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Phaidon
Auteur(s)	Gerhard Mack, Paula van den Bosch, Jeremy Millar
Parution	14/09/2006
Nb. de pages	160
Format	25 x 29
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1010g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780714844459
ISBN13	978-0-7148-4445-9