{"id":29632,"date":"1996-10-11T14:01:42","date_gmt":"1996-10-11T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/?p=29632"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:04:54","slug":"roman-signer-its-not-forbidden-to-laugh-louisiana-channel-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/roman-signer-its-not-forbidden-to-laugh-louisiana-channel-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Signer, It&#8217;s Not Forbidden to Laugh, Louisiana Channel, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Artist Roman Signer: It&#039;s Not Forbidden to Laugh | Louisiana Channel\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PKugd04zhHA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy work is like a game. A serious game.\u201d<br>Wood, water, sheet metal, lead, explosives, rubber, acid, sand, gravity, rockets, gunpowder, and fire. Swiss artist Roman Signer\u2019s work explores the relationships between sudden energy releases and calmness, between order and chaos, and the existence of form in the apparently formless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat fascinates me is that a force makes my sculpture. I only arrange things, and then a stone might fall, or the bike hits the beams, and then the sculpture is finished. A force has manifested itself in the sculpture.\u201d<br>Signer has been redefining sculpture for over 40 years and is now regarded as one of the finest process and conceptual art representatives. He produces elementary dynamic sculptures and installations, also known as time sculptures, for their preoccupation with transforming materials and objects through time.<br>As a young student, he vacillated between becoming an architect or an artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI realized that sculpture interested me more because you don\u2019t have the same constraints architects have. The economic constraints and the functional constraints. Sculpture is less constrained. I wanted to do sculpture because there\u2019s not a reason behind it that requires a certain order and a set procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Signer gives a humorous twist to the concept of cause and effect and the traditional scientific method of experimentation and discovery. He is taking on the self-evidence of scientific logic as an artistic challenge using everyday objects, such as umbrellas, bottles, tables, chairs, and candles, through a process guided by curiosity and discipline. Like the director of a thriller, he uses tension and surprise.<br>Growing up by the mountain river Sitter in Appenzell, Switzerland, Signer spent his childhood and youth playing and experimenting in the river, observing it changing during the shifting seasons. In his works, water and kayaks are a common theme. \u201cI have a pretty strong connection to water. Which doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m a great swimmer. But you don\u2019t need that for kayaking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roman Signer (1938) was born in Appenzell, Switzerland. He studied at the Schule f\u00fcr Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland, 1966; at the Schule f\u00fcr Gestaltung, Lucerne, Switzerland, 1969 \u2013 1971; and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland, 1971 \u2013 1972. His work has been presented in numerous museums and galleries worldwide. It has been selected for prestigious international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, where he represented Switzerland in 1999, Skulptur Projekte M\u00fcnster (1997) as well as Documenta 8 in Kassel, where during \u2018Action in front of the Orangerie\u2019 he catapulted 350.000 sheets of paper into the air simultaneously with an explosive charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roman Signer was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in connection with his solo exhibition at Malm\u00f6 Konsthall in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Camera: Jakob Solbakken<br>Additional footage from the film Signers Koffer by Peter Liechti<br>Edited by: Signe Boe Pedersen<br>Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner<br>Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louisiana Channel is supported by Den A.P. M\u00f8llerske St\u00f8ttefond, Ny Carlsbergfondet and C.L. Davids Fond og Samling and Fritz Hansen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy work is like a game. 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