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Vues d’installation \/ Installation views, Roman Signer, Malm\u00f6 Konsthall, 2023
Photo: Helene Toresdotter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vues d’installation \/ Installation views, Roman Signer, Malm\u00f6 Konsthall, 2023
Photo: Helene Toresdotter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vues d’installation \/ Installation views, Roman Signer, Malm\u00f6 Konsthall, 2023
Photo: Helene Toresdotter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vues d’installation \/ Installation views, Roman Signer, Malm\u00f6 Konsthall, 2023
Photo: Helene Toresdotter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ Installation view, Roman Signer, Sculptures et une installation, Art : Concept, Paris, oct – nov, 2022. Courtesy the artist; Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by: Romain Darnaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ Installation view, Roman Signer, Sculptures et une installation, Art : Concept, Paris, oct – nov, 2022. Courtesy the artist; Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by: Romain Darnaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Exhibition view, Calder Now, Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2021-2022. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthal Rotterdam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tomb\u00e9 du ciel, Frac Franche-Comt\u00e9, Besan\u00e7on, 2022. Photo Blaise Adilon. Courtesy the artist and Art : Concept, Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Roman Signer, Paddel, 2021. Ventilateur et pagaie \/ Fan and paddle. 150 \u00d7 180 \u00d7 180 cm (59 \u00d7 70 \u215e \u00d7 70 \u215e inches). 25 \u00d7 950 \u00d7 130 cm (9 \u215e \u00d7 374 \u00d7 51 \u215b inches). Courtesy the artist; Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by: Romain Darnaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Moment.Monument, Aspects of contemporary sculpture, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view KUB Project, Roman Signer, Installation on Bielbach Bielerh\u00f6he, Montafon, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Exhibition view The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance, Walker Art Center, 2020. Photo Pierre Ware. Courtesy of the artist and the Walker Art Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Roman Signer,Sketch for a sculpture of 2004. Exhibition Roman Signer. Skizzen 1970-2020, Buendner Kunstmuseum, Chur, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and the museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view Roman Signer, Ch\u00e2teau de Montsoreau-Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art contemporain, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kabine, 2017. Cprint, 15 3\/4 x 23 5\/8 in., ed 10. Private collection MC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kajak, 2014. Kayak, metal trunck, 21 1\/4 x 47 1\/4 x 31 1\/2 in., ed 2. Private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Maison double, 2011-12, brass, 18 1\/8 x 10 1\/4 x 10 1\/4 in. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Installation avec deux ventilateurs, Bund 18, Shanghai, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Roman Signer: Kitfox Experimental, KINDL – Zentrum f\u00fcr zeitgen\u00f6ssische Kunst (Kesselhaus), Berlin, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Aktion in Sedrun, 2010, color photograph, 48 x 48 in., ed 6 + 2 AP. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Holzobjekt mit Uhr, 2008 wood, clock, 6 1\/4 x 35 3\/8 x 17 3\/4 in. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Untitled, 2009, cardboard and glasses, variable dimensions. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beim Chef, 2009. Color photograph, 11 3\/4 x 15 3\/4 in., ed 3 + 3 AP. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wagen, 2006, mixed media, variable dimensions. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vier R\u00e4der, 2002. Cprint, 11 3\/4 x 17 3\/4 in, ed 10 + 3 AP. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Table fumeur, 2005, wooden table, wood and aluminium box, rocket, cigarette, 28 3\/8 x 42 1\/8 x 27 1\/8 in. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Flussaufw\u00e4rts, Bergelia, 2008. Colour print pasted on aluminium, 35 3\/8 x 23 5\/8 in. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Leiter, 1995, color photograph, 19 7\/8 x 13 3\/4 in., ed 10 + 3 AP. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Zelt, 2002, video DVD, 25 seconds. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Schweben (To float), 1995, b&w photograph on barytine paper, 14 1\/8 x 9 1\/2 in., ed 10. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Schwarzes Tuch, 1994. B&W photography on barytine paper, polyptych of 6, 12 5\/8 x 9 1\/2 in each, ed 10. Public collection: Museum van Loon, Amsterdam\/NL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Action mit F\u00e4ssern, 1992, b&w print, quadriptych, 15 3\/4 x 12 in each. Private collection FR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wagen mit Kohlens\u00e4uredruckflasche (chariot), 1985, wood, fire extinguisher, rope, rubber, 13 x 41 x 22 7\/8 in. Private collection MC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heliport, 1989-2018, blow up basin, helicopter, 19 5\/8 x 47 1\/4 x 47 1\/4. in.) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bogen, 1978. C-print, 9 7\/8 x 11 3\/4 in., ed 10 + 3 AP. Private collection FR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tente et Helicopt\u00e8re, 2000, mixed media, variable dimensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Roman Signer was born in 1938 in Appenzel Switzerland. He lives and works in Saint Gallen, Switzerland. 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 functionality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renowned for his “Actions”, Signer has often been defined as a pyrotechnical artist or 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, photography and video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s skills are all turned towards the reproduction of a magic moment, almost ritualized by his work: the moment when slight transformation of shape and matter are possible. 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. Signer\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work is present, among others, in the following collections : Museum Of Old And New Art (MONA), Tasmania; Mus\u00e9e National d\u2019Art Moderne, Paris; FNAC, Paris-La d\u00e9fense; Museum f\u00fcr Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt\/Main; Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St. Gallen; Kunsthaus Zug, Zug; Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich, Zurich; MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles; et dans de nombreux FRAC, Fonds r\u00e9gionaux d’Art Contemporain, dont le FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solo exhibitions include: Tomb\u00e9 du ciel, Frac Franche-Comt\u00e9, Besan\u00e7on\/FR (2022); The little Art window, Gstaad\/CH (2021) ; Skizzen, Museum of Fine Arts, Chur\/CH (2020) ; New Sculptures, Videos and Installations, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug\/CH (2019) ; Roman Signer, Film & Video: 1975-1989 and Now, Luxelakes \u2013 A4 Art Museum, Chengdu\/ROC (2018) ; Le temps gel\u00e8 \/ Die gefrorene Zeit, Centre de la photographie, Geneva\/CH (2016) ; Roman Signer: Slow Movement, The Barbican Curve, London\/UK (2015) ; High Line Channel 22, \u2018Kayak\u2019, New York\/US (2013) ; Kunsthalle Mainz, \u2018Attila Cs\u00f6rgo und Roman Signer\u2019, Mainz\/DE (2012) Art:Concept, Paris\/FR (2011) ; Four rooms, one artist, Swiss Institute, New York\/US (2010) ; Secession, Vienna\/AT (1999) ; Swiss Pavilion, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice\/IT (1999).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the gallery<\/h4>\n\n\n\n