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Art : Concept: Roman Signer - 8 Jan 2011 to 19 Feb 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Roman Signer vernissage le 8 janvier de 6 � 9 heures Opening January 8 from 6-9pm ENGLISH VERSION BELOW Art: Concept est heureux d'annoncer sa quatri�me exposition personnelle avec Roman Signer. Cet artiste Suisse, n� en 1938 est originaire de la r�gion d�Apenzell. Il vit et travaille � Saint-Gallen. � cette occasion, il pr�sentera des �uvres in�dites qui sont actuellement en pr�paration et qui seront sp�cifiquement r�alis�es pour l'espace de galerie. Depuis le milieu des ann�es soixante-dix, les �uvres de Roman Signer activent et r�activent des paradoxes. Les micro-spectacles ou non �v�nements qui r�sultent de chacune de ses �uvres questionnent, avec une grande l�g�ret� d'esprit, l'�conomie du spectacle, l'id�e du rendement, l'obsession de l'efficacit� et notre enracinement profond dans le fonctionnalisme. Principalement connu pour ses "Actions/Sculptures" et r�guli�rement �tiquet� comme artiste pyrotechnicien ou "artiste de l'explosion", Signer refuse cependant de se laisser circonscrire par l'abondante litt�rature et les commentaires gravitant autour de son oeuvre. Le format m�me qu'il a invent� englobe indiff�remment la performance, la sculpture, le dessin, l'installation, la photographie et la vid�o, peu importe lequel de ces m�diums il choisit. Il s'agit de r�v�ler voire de suspendre le processus de cr�ation afin de structurer le temps, d'attirer le regard sur l'� peine ou le rarement visible. Signer s'�vertue ainsi � reproduire ce moment magique, devenu quasiment rituel dans son travail: celui o� la furtive transformation de la forme et de la mati�re est rendue possible, du moins imaginable. Signer combine la simplicit� de gestes ou d'objets du quotidien � la complexit� de dispositifs techniques et de ph�nom�nes physiques qu'il d�clenche sans pour autant en vouloir le contr�le. L'aspect m�taphysique et l'audace intellectuelle d'une telle d�marche rel�vent notamment de l'absence de crit�res d'�valuation, la r�ussite et l'�chec n'ont ici aucune valeur. Les mises en sc�ne p�rilleuses ou les situations absurdes parfois proches du num�ro de cirque se d�nouent avec subtilit�, sur le fil du libre-arbitre et de l'al�atoire. Une forme de l�gende de l'artiste accompagne ce perp�tuel recommencement du passage � l'action. Exer�ant une pr�sence physique ou auratique, Signer se retrouve tour � tour d�clencheur plac� hors-champ, cascadeur ou figure sisyph�enne de son propre univers. Caroline Soyez-Petithomme _______________________________________ Art: Concept is glad to announce Roman Signer�s fourth personal exhibition at the gallery. Born in 1938, this Swiss artist was born in the Apenzell Region. He lives and works in Sankt Gallen. On this occasion, he will present some site-specific works created especially for the occasion. Since the mid-seventies, Roman Signer has showed and re-enacted paradoxes. The mini-shows and non-happenings generated by his sculptures, installations and performances and documented by his videos and photographs form a permanent questioning on the economy of entertainment. With a light approach, his work tackles modern concerns such as efficiency, performance or productivity, as well as our deeply rooted obsession with functionalism. Renowned for his � Action/Sculptures �, Signer has often been defined as a pyrotechnical artist or even given the label of � explosion-artist �, but he refuses to be circumscribed by the abundant literature and many remarks circulating on his work. The body of work that he has created is in itself extremely versatile, encompassing various disciplines such as happening, sculpture, drawing, installation-work, photography and video. Regardless of the chosen medium, the creative process often reveals, by means of a structured suspension in time, what is scarcely or very seldom visible. Signer�s skills are all turned towards the reproduction of a magic moment, almost ritualized by his work: the moment when slight transformations of shape and matter are made possible or at least imaginable. Signer combines the simplicity of everyday gestures and materials to the complexity of technical devices and physical phenomena, activated without the necessity of keeping them under total control. The metaphysical aspects and intellectual prowess of the work are direct results of the total absence of evaluation-criteria, here success or failure hold no value. Perilous happenings and absurd circus-like situations are staged with subtlety and follow the conductive lines of free-will and randomness. The recurrent enactment-process is backed by the artist�s legend, and his aura weighs as much as his physical presence. Signer�s presence is sometimes triggering and off-camera, while sometimes he turns into a real stuntman: the Sisyphus-like boulder pushing character of his own work. Caroline Soyez-Petithomme Traduction Frieda Schumann |
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