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Signer RomanBorn in 1938 in Appenzell (Switzerland). A visual arts artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic artist. He engages in performance, he is also an author of installations and video films. He also creates works in the public space. Singer studied at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich (1966-69) and Lucerne (19969-71), then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1971-72). He lives and works in St. Gallen (Switzerland). In the course of his artistic career of more than thirty years, he has participated in several hundred of individual and collective exhibitions as well as in artistic enterprises in the most prestigious cultural institutions and galleries worldwide. He presented his works, among others, at: the 37th and 48th Biennale di Venezia (1976, 1999), DOCUMENTA 8, Kassel (1978). His works have been exhibited in De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (1995), Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (1998, 2009), Palais de Tokyo, France (2009). Individual exhibitions: Galerie Barbara Weiss, Germany (2002) and on several occasions at Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Switzerland, and Galerie Martin Janda, Austria while recently at Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany and Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland (2009). He is a laureate of, among others: Kulturpreis Bregenz (1995), Kulturpreis St. Gallen (1998, 2004), Aachener Kunstpreis (2006), Ernst Franz Vogelmann-Preis für Skulptur (2008). He was nominated to the Hugo Boss Prize (2008). Signer’s works, defined as “actions sculptures” encompass arrangement, realisation, and recording of “experiments” and events whose effects have characteristics of an “aesthetic event”. Abiding by precisely prepared and documented procedures, the artist causes and then records explosions, collisions, or projections of items in space. In a humorous way, Signer presents the reversal of the cause and result concept and of the traditional, scientific experiment and discovery method, engaging in his own interpretation of scientific logics as an artistic challenge. www.romansigner.ch |
Installation The work of Roman Signer appeared on the Market Square at the junction of ul. Szczepańska and Szewska. The Swiss artist talks about his work, prepared for ArtBoom Festival: after a trip by canoe on the Vistula river I stopped for a while in Krakow to drink a cup of coffee. The idea for my production ensued by coincidence.  Project curator: Beata Nowacka-Kardzis Pictures: Weronika Szmuc |
12 - 22/06/2009
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Sławkowska Street / Szczepańska Street
the junction of the Streets |
