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\u201cRoman Signer\u2014Videos 1975\u20131989 and now\u201d (curated by Qiu Zhijie and Li Zhenhua)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

China Academy of Art Museum<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(218 Nanshan Lu, Hangzhou),\u00a02014.08.27 \u00a0– 2014.09.09<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a year\u2019s worth of preparation, the Swiss artist Roman Signer opened his first touring exhibition at its first stop in China, at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. Over 205 works from 1975 to 1989 were presented, including Super 8 video documentation of performances, and a group of duo-channel HD projections. (1) Additionally, dozens of publications about Signer\u2019s works were open for viewers to peruse \u2013 with white gloves \u2013 in the documents area on the first floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 small projectors formed a circle along the circular exhibition hall on the second floor. Each projection was about 30-40 cm wide, shown roughly at the height of viewers\u2019 eyes, forming a pell-mell loop of videos projected. Since the videos were all without audio, the sounds from the performances all had to be imagined; this raised the tension of silence in the space. These \u201ctime sculptures\u201d are a visual record of performances and happenings arising from Signer\u2019s sculptural, process-based vision which developed from the 1970s. These documents have come to be viewed as independent art works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Roman Signer solo show at the Aargauder Kunsthaus<\/a> in Switzerland in early 2012 also exhibited 36 pieces of Super8 videos from 1975\u20131989, only there, the exhibition display format was completely different. The projection screens were displayed neatly in a row one after the other, filling up a 600 sqm exhibition hall\u2014closer to the traditional museum display. In contrast, the small projections this time mostly had pixellation and glitches, thus losing something in color and reality while also heightening the traces of time elapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps viewers heading to the exhibition had higher expectations; still, on site, one could not help viewing things rather restlessly. These videos, which appear like pranks alongside the serious face of the artist featured in them, form fleeting reflections of reality. These are not cheap, eye-catching stunts, nor lengthy sermons on concepts; some are simple in medium, offering unadorned reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since 1972, Signer has taken part in countless exhibitions, including the Venice Biennales in 1976 and 1999 and the 1987 Documenta in Kassel, as well as many others. Signer has become one of the most important artists working with explosive performances, time sculptures and videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signer has long had connections in China. In 1981, he followed the last vestiges of leftist romantic idealism to come to China. Thirty years later, Signer came again to China as the last artist in the \u201cPerformance and Video\u201d series curated by Li Zhenhua, where Signer conducted three lectures, introduced and played some of his video works. Signer was clearly advanced in age at that point, but he was full of spirit. He seriously and meticulously described his own performances with explosions. When the audience asked him about Cai Guo-Qiang, Signer stressed, \u201cMy creative works are about the individual. All attempts I\u2019ve done are for my own experience, and then spread through videos, after which others would invite me to do some small-scale public performances. But these are not really like works of performance art\u2014there is no consciousness of the audience. Large-scale installations like \u201cAktion vor der Orangerie\u201d at the closing of the Kassel Documenta are rare. Cai Guo-Qiang, on the other hand, is very performative \u2013 with works made for the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viewing Signer\u2019s works feels a bit like sliding one\u2019s hand into the water\u2014sensing the ripples of the running fluid, the dangers lurking within, the velvety temptations, the refreshing touch. As Signer himself said, \u201cWhen I arrive in a new city, I usually search out water.\u201d (3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1) During the 2012 Shanghai Biennale, Roman Signer conducted a performance inside the smokestack at Shanghai\u2019s Power Station of Art: from the top of the smokestack, a huge wooden ball filled with blue paint was dropped. Two HD video cameras at the side and on the top recorded the process of the sphere plummeting and fragmenting, and the paint splattering everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2) http:\/\/linggu.org\/2011\/12\/22\/roman-signer-comes-to-china\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(3) Roman Signer in conversation with Susanne Jacob in: Skulptur.Projekte in M\u00fcnster 1997, Kaspar K\u00f6nig (ed.), M\u00fcnster: Westf\u00e4lisches Landesmuseum (1997) p 391.<\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition View
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