Signer, R: Roman Signer Strret Pictures
(Sprache: Englisch)
The futility of all human endeavour is strikingly expressed in Roman Signer's work. Since 1975 he has been creating sculptures, installations, photo sequences and short Super 8 films, in which he engages with all sorts of ordinary objects - a chair or a...
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The futility of all human endeavour is strikingly expressed in Roman Signer's work. Since 1975 he has been creating sculptures, installations, photo sequences and short Super 8 films, in which he engages with all sorts of ordinary objects - a chair or a kaya, for example - which he drops, sinks or explodes with great precision. During these counter-productive actions - he refers to them as Kurzzeitskulptur (Short time sculpture), Signer adopts a solemn attitude, striking a pose of great seriousness. This has earnt him a moniker as the 'Buster Keaton of art'.
Autoren-Porträt von Roman Signer, Paula van den Bosch
Roman Signer, born 1938 in Appenzell, Switzerland; 1959-66 worked as an architectural draughtsman; 1966 Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich; 1969-71 Kunstgewerbeschule Luzern; from 1972 free-lance artist; from 1974 taught atthe Schule für Gestaltung, Luzern; work mainly in the field of action and performance often using explosives; lives and works in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Signer's "action sculptures" involve setting up, carrying out, and recording"experiments" or events that bear aesthetic results. Following carefully planned and strictly executed and documented procedures, the artist enacts and records such acts as explosions, collisions, and the projection of objects through space. Video works like "Stiefel mit Rakete" (Boot with Rocket) are integral to Signer's performances, capturing the original setup of materials that self-destruct in the process of creating an emotionally and visually compelling event. Signer gives a humorous twist to the concept of cause and effect and to the traditional scientific method of experimentation and discovery, taking on the self-evidence of scientific logic as an artistic challenge.
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- Autoren: Roman Signer , Paula van den Bosch
- 2013, 144 Seiten, 70 farbige Abbildungen, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Steidl Gerhard Verlag
- ISBN-10: 3865217192
- ISBN-13: 9783865217196
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Englisch
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