Delphine Chapuis-Schmitz
27 February to 7 September 2014
Opening: 4 June, 6 pm
Delphine Chapuis-Schmitz (b. 1979 in Boulogn-Billancourt,
lives in Zurich) is conceiving an art project with audio-
guides for the period between the end of February
and the start of September 2014. Unlike ordinary audio
guides, which refer directly to the exhibits with descriptions
of paintings and background knowledge pertaining to the
exhibition, the intervention by this artist with a doctorate in
philosophy will focus on the very conditions of exhibition
and reception in the museum. Numbers shall be positioned
at various, sometimes remote, locations within the building.
If these numbers are entered into the device's keypad, a corresponding text on the subject of space
and perception begins to play. As a medium of interaction, language initiates a new altercation with
space, the investigation and shifting of conventions of seeing, and the dashing of expectations. The
words resonate, accompany the visitors during their tour through the museum, and give rise to a kind
of exhibition in the mind.
Tobias Putrih
5 June to 7 September 2014
Opening: 4 June, 6 pm
At Haus Konstruktiv, conceptual artist Tobias Putrih (b.
1972 in Slovenia, lives in Cambridge MA) is to realize his
first solo exhibition in a Swiss museum. His works have
previously been shown internationally in highly renowned
exhibitions and institutions, e.g. as part of Manifesta 4 in
Frankfurt a. M. (2002), at MoMA PS1 in New York (2005),
at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007) and at Centre George
Pompidou in Paris (2010). Putrih is primarily interested in
the utopias and subversive ideologies of the traditional
avant-garde. On the basis of their design models, scientific
models and architectural models, he explores the extent to
which architecture, art, science and design can influence
our social system. With simple materials, such as styrofoam, paper, wire or wood, he creates
structures that can be changed in a modular manner, and he often combines them to form large-scale
installations. As the results of conceptual and experimental processes of deconstruction and
reconstruction, his works open up new perspectives on our everyday environment.
Auguste Herbin – From the Lahumière Collection
5 June to 7 September 2014
Opening: 4 June, 6 pm
Today, Auguste Herbin (b. 1882 in Quiévy, d. 1960 in
Paris) is often celebrated as a pioneer of non-figurative
abstraction in France, even though his journey to that point
was by all means hesitant. This French artist went through
various phases of modern painting; his oeuvre is
characterized by a diversity of styles, ranging from
impressionism and fauvism to cubism, orphism, purism and
the new objectivity, right through to radical geometric
abstraction. In 1931, together with Georges Vantongerloo,
Theo van Doesburg, Jean Hélion, Hans Arp and František
Kupka, he founded the association Abstraction Création,
with which he published the journal of the same name from
1932 to 1936. In 1942/43, the need for a self-imposed
system of rules led to his Alphabet Plastique, a geometric
vocabulary of colored forms resembling letters and
referring to Goethe's Theory of Colors, as well as to Rudolf
Steiner's anthroposophical writings. Herbin's obstinately
developed work brought him recognition on an
international level: for instance, his works were shown between 1955 and 1972 at documenta I, II and
V. In 1979, he was represented in a large exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and in
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, in 1987. Museum Haus Konstruktiv is exhibiting a
distinct selection of works from the Parisian Lahumière collection.
Florian Dombois – Stricken Modernism
In cooperation with Collegium Helveticum / ETH Zurich
5 June to 7 September 2014
Opening: 4 June, 6 pm
Florian Dombois (b. 1966 in Berlin, lives in Zurich) is a
qualified geophysicist, as well as a conceptual artist, who
has been addressing the representation of seismological
phenomena in an art context since 1994. His repertoire
encompasses sound installations, spatial installations,
happenings and performances. For the sound installation
Stricken Modernism, Dombois will use a drum beater to
strike several objects from Museum Haus Konstruktiv's
collection, produced between 1960 and 1970, and shall
listen to, and record, their natural vibrations by means of a
contact microphone. The various sounds will be
supplemented by recorded sounds from works of the same
era in ETH's collection of sculptures. These recordings form
the acoustic source material for this sound work at Museum
Haus Konstruktiv. In parallel, Florian Dombois (together with
Sabine Schaschl, director of Museum Haus Konstruktiv)
shall arrange a collection presentation, which is to incorporate and constructively reflect on issues
from Stricken Modernism.
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