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Roman Signer: Street Pictures | 
 enlarge | Authors: Paula Van Den Bosch, Roman Signer
Publisher: Steidl & Partners
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3131140
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
ISBN: 3865217192
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783865217196
ASIN: 3865217192
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Product Description
The futility of all human endeavor is strikingly expressed in Swiss artist Roman Signer's work. Since 1975 he has been creating sculptures, installations, photo sequences and short Super-8 films in which, according to critic Chris Fite-Wassila, he playfully misuses objects and, "sets them afloat in a sea of new possible functions. Like the gleeful child of a clockmaker and a mad scientist, Signer conducts experiments that have a calculated start but an undetermined end point, giving them an elemental, organic quality--as if the unexpected will occur at any moment." Since 1975, Signer has been creating "action sculptures" that involve setting up, carrying out and recording experiments or events--often explosions, collisions or the projection of objects through space. Signer puts a humorous twist on the traditional scientific method, taking on its supposed veracity as an artistic challenge, all the while adopting a deadpan pose that has earned him the moniker "the Buster Keaton of art." This volume compiles Signer's non-explosive Street Pictures photographs, which depict enigmatic roadside tableaux which were made in Ukraine on the latest of his many journeys.
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A welcome and important addition to personal, professional, and academic library collections November 5, 2006
The collaborative work of architecture critic Gerhard Mack, Paula van den Bosch (Curator of Contemporary Art at Bonnefantunmuseum, Maastrict), and the artist, critic and curator Jeremy Millar, "Roman Singer" offers the reader an extended monograph covering the life and work of the Swiss artist and sculptor Roman Signer who is bet known for creating events in ;which simple materials such as rockets, balloons, and rushing water react with natural forces to create surprising lyrical and artistic results. The informed and informative text featuring an interview by Paula van den Bosch with Roman Signer, Gerhard Mack's discussion of the recurrent motifs and major themes in Signer's works, and a 1984 interview revealing Signer's attitude towards the danger inherit in his approach to (and involvement with) some of his projects is superbly enhanced with ninety color and 40 b/w illustrations. "Roman Singer" offers insightful reading into the man and his work, making it a welcome and important addition to personal, professional, and academic library collections of Art History, Contemporary Art & Artists, and Art Criticism.
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