From the very beginning, the work of Roman Signer (*1938, CH) has been concerned with fleeting events and the release of provoked and existing energies. His materials are natural forces such as water, wind, fire or gravity, which he relates to everyday objects such as chairs, buckets, red kayaks, blue barrels, remote-controlled flying objects, umbrellas or fans and which repeatedly appear as leitmotifs in the artist's work. He forms grotesquely comical situations into images and unfolds a subtle poetry of humor. He documents the precisely planned actions, which are composed of the potential of the situation, the transformation of energy and the trace of the process, in photo series, on film or later on video. The Super 8 films that Roman Signer shot from the mid-1970s onwards play a special role in this. They go far beyond a cinematic documentation of his actions and become an independent medium in his oeuvre. The exhibition focuses on the Super 8 films made in Signer's home town of Appenzell and the surrounding area. This is Roman Signer's first solo exhibition in Appenzell, CH, which extends over three floors of the Kunsthalle and the entire Ziegelhütte.

On the occasion of the exhibition, a complete catalog raisonné of the Super-8 films will be published by Verlag Walther König, edited by Peter Zimmermann, with texts by Stefanie Gschwend (Director Kunstmuseum / Kunsthalle Appenzell) and Stephan Kunz (Director Bündner Kunstmuseum).


Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.