Andreas Baumann (artist, 1962)
Andreas Baumann (* 1962 in Bern ) is a Swiss conceptual artist who has lived in Vienna since 1984 .
life and work
Andreas Baumann is a trained primary school teacher. As an autodidact , he became a copywriter and then an artist. From 1989 to 1993 he worked with Eva Wohlgemuth , with whom he exhibited at documenta X in Kassel in 1997 . The work of the artist duo creates an intellectual network of objects that are geographically housed in selected locations.
The following were realized:
- System I: Around Vienna , a conceptual "localization sculpture"
- System II: A house, A wood, A Lake, A Mountain and A Tunnel in Switzerland . Five panels that are representative of an idea of home
- System IV: Moving Plates , where nine titanium panels unfold the idea of a kinetic, global sculpture, as they are placed on a mobile surface (car, train, glacier, tree, elevator, satellite, mill, submarine and ship)
- System V: Red means Yellow, Yellow means Red , two panels that are attached to exactly opposite places on earth, one of which is on Easter Island in the Pacific and the other in the Thar Desert in India.
Photo works by Baumann from the collection of the cultural department of the City of Vienna ( museum on demand ) were shown in 2004 in the exhibition Pictures of Viennese in the Martin-Gropius-Bau . Andreas Baumann has been working as an insurance seller since 2007.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Photo gallery Vienna: Andreas Baumann , accessed on December 8, 2018
- ^ Documenta X short guide / Kurzführer Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-938-8 , page 250
- ↑ Pictures of Viennese - photographs. In: berlinerfestspiele.de. Berliner Festspiele: Martin-Gropius-Bau, 2004, accessed on December 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Ernst Schmiederer: The art of being able to say no. In: time online . April 26, 2007, accessed December 9, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baumann, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss concept artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |