Lighting up the art world
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Candle, Roman Signer: "A simple apparatus consisting of a board, an air pump, and a candle. The artist offers an impertinent decision: to extinguish the flame by stepping on the pump." -
Untitled, Gregory and Cyril Chapuisat: "Like a swollen stealth bomber that crashed into the building. I really like the idea that the piece is much too big for the building itself. It explodes the architecture of the site." -
18 of 100 Photographs That Changed The World, Lisa Oppenheim: "It is a lot about the humble state we're in, and a counter-culture to this idea that with sheer will, we can be successful, and that everything is about performance..." -
Black and Blue, Ryan Foerster: "It is very much a show that is about space and how you operate with space... he almost works with this punkish attitude and punkish aesthetic." -
Suicide Plant, Carsten Höller: "The plant gets punished for its will to grow. As soon as it reaches a certain height, it electrocutes itself... elevates the plant to an organism with its own will." -
Feat Lux, Sean Landers: "He formulates hundreds of statements in relation to the simple but crucial questions regarding life... The way we think when we are by ourselves."
The Swiss Institute is both Swiss and international (gallery from 2008).
This content was published on May 2, 2008
All photos: (Thomas Müller, courtesy the Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art)
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