Beat Toniolo
Beat Toniolo (* 17th June 1962 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss Political and performance - artist . He works as a cultural mediator, initiator and organizer of various art and cultural events.
biography
Beat Toniolo grew up in Schaffhausen and learned at a young age the profession of chemist . At the beginning of 20 he trained as a sports therapist in Munich and Stuttgart, then worked in health centers and for eleven years as a supervisor for professional athletes at European and World Championships. During this time Toniolo went on art and study trips to France , Japan , Italy , Sweden , Malta , Hungary , Bosnia and Herzegovina and began to be artistically active himself.
With the opening of his own studio in 1992 in Grentzingen , France , in Alsace , Toniolo devoted himself intensively to abstract acrylic painting, always incorporating new materials and objects into his works. After the first exhibitions and sales of his attention-grabbing “material pictures”, award-winning commissioned works made of special glass and metal for art-in-building projects in France and Switzerland were created. Three-dimensionality and accessibility gradually became core components. In the further development of his work, Toniolo created highly verbose installations and provocative performances that continue to deal critically with Switzerland's political self-image. These works make Beat Toniolo increasingly known in other European countries.
Violence and war in language and politics are the core themes of the Swiss Abroad, who has been working in Leipzig since 2010. Toniolo describes himself as a “Schaffhauser who set out to live art” and, in keeping with this self-image, also appears as a politically committed action artist in public space. For his representational productions, he collects signs, traces and legacies from reality and assembles them into large, partially accessible installations.
Another focus is art and culture mediation between Switzerland and Germany. Since 1996 Toniolo has been initiating cross-genre cultural projects with participants from art and science, including the “Word and Image Festival” at the Rhine Falls in Schaffhausen, which Toniolo organized five times up to 2012. Projects like this have been developed since 1995 in collaboration with the German writer and librettist Ursula Haas .
As an “ impresario ”, Beat Toniolo created the SeelisbergRütli Festival , which was staged for the first time from July 31 to August 18, 2013 at the WaldWeidli in Seelisberg with the title Tell Meets Wagner - Encounters on Lake Lucerne . In addition to renowned actors, authors, directors and composers, young musicians accompanied the drama like an amateur choir.
In 2014 Beat Toniolo initiated a short film (30 min.) About one of the important Swiss dialect pioneers, the Wilching dialect writer Albert Bächtold (1891–1981), which was submitted to various national and international film and literature festivals. The antiquarian, one of the main roles, was played by Andrea Zogg . On August 1, 2015, the short film was shown at Sternstunde Kunst on Swiss television.
In 2017 Toniolo made a 45-minute documentary from the film material from the island of Lamu (Kenya) with Rose Marie Beck from the African Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig and Reto Troxler: Lamu Calling - there's always a donkey on Lamu . This was shown as the opening film at the Schaffhausen Film Festival 2017.
In October 2017, Beat Toniolo realized an interdisciplinary production at the Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig: Is the moment a shore , including the quasi-crystal pictures by Schaffhausen artist Kurt Bruckner and the actor Michael Mendl , who read the texts by the Syrian writer Adel Karasholi, who lives in Leipzig.
At the beginning of 2019 Toniolo began - in a team with artistic experts - with the immersive art project The Rhine Falls in Four Seasons , the premiere of which was announced for May 2020 in the listed SIG hall above the Rhine Falls. Toniolo also brought the Mendl Festival Zeitz to life in Zeitz (Saxony-Anhalt) .
photography
Beat Toniolo's photo series are mostly the starting point for his diverse work. The focus on questioning reality artistically is evident in the photo series “Journey to Sarajevo”, which the artist took shortly after the end of the Croatian War in Sarajevo and Mostar and, printed on rough, dirty truck tarpaulin, in his video installation “ 30 words - 20 minutes ”integrated.
Material images
Photos are also often found in Toniolo's large-format, mostly abstract material images. Toniolo's paintings are laid on the floor, painted, filled with spatula, sprayed in one act “between spontaneity and conscious shaping” (Haller Tagblatt, 1991). Various materials are incorporated, from quartz sand to wax. The result is a relief-like collage in which not only photos but also wire, adhesive plaster and other objects can be found.
Glass art
Beat Toniolo develops combinations of special glass and metal for his glass objects for art-in-building projects. Editing with a double-sided printing process (text and image) creates idiosyncratic color-word-shadow plays. In the commissioned work created for various companies, the employees are involved in an artistic way, for example to deal with or identify with the topic of the place of work or the environment.
Installations and performances
In his performances and installations, socio-critical questions about current forms of violence are in the foreground. Aspects of war and violence play a special role for the artist, especially with regard to Switzerland's neutrality. Beat Toniolo prepares his installations, which are composed of found objects and industrially manufactured materials, systematically and on the basis of many notes. His spacious environments suggest an actually existing environment and at the same time trigger associations on a deeper level of meaning.
Beat Toniolo makes himself part of productions, he appeared z. B. with a deer head on his back in front of the Federal Palace and publicly noted a pamphlet on Switzerland's handling of political art.
Installations in the context of exhibitions
“In this way, Beat Toniolo's work starts with the concern about what can happen in a world that is considered civilized. The work (...) of the Swiss artist can be read as a persistent attempt to show the sated viewer, who has made his peace with the horrors of violence and war in the face of daily disaster reports, what he prefers to ignore in the general flood of information. With the installation 78 Days , which commemorates the NATO bombing in Kosovo in 1999 and the massacre of the civilian population by Serbian war criminals, Toniolo formulates the hopelessness of a ruthless spiral of violence. The staging of everyday objects (in 78 days children clothes and tile), working with language (puns with devious characters shifts at the plant mines-Binen ) and the collage of magazine pages in sight - out - away show Toniolo as an artist, the aesthetic in a direct and at the same time compelling Art takes a position. ”( Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 4, 2000 on the exhibition Art, Politics with Günther Uecker in the Kunsthaus Grenchen )
Actions in public space
“Toniolo's actions aim to ensure that the new problems are the old ones. (...) Beat Toniolo's peace performances are unmistakable when, of course, always in the most frequented pedestrian zones, with installations made of barbed wire, steel letters and waste materials, he himself appears as an action artist. And disguised with a helmet and uniform as if time had stood still in 1945 and he had just marched away from a Swiss military troop. ”(Neue Luzerner Zeitung, August 28, 1999) His installation suspense intact or let yourself be put under suspicion (together with Ursula Haas) in the Munich art bunker Tumulka. From May to July 2004 Toniolo gave the occasion to behead roses at the nearby Rosenkavalierplatz and thus to take a position on the increasingly restrictive support for culture. Toniolo's socially critical performance acts also include his unauthorized and partially forbidden performances since 1999 at Art Basel , where he had the self-indulgent vernissage audience paraded over lorry tarpaulins from Sarajevo, on which the victims of the war were depicted, instead of over the red carpet.
Projects (selection)
Beat Toniolo is the initiator, organizer and artistic director of various art and cultural events, on the occasion of which lectures and discussions with and by writers, musicians, actors, visual artists, dancers and scientists take place.
Word and image festival
The Word and Image Festival takes place every two years at the end of June on and around the Rhine Falls in Schaffhausen. It includes literature, theater, music and dance. In 2009, Beat Toniolo invited renowned artists such as Stiller Has , Graziella Contratto, Urs Widmer , Lukas Hartmann and Camerata Schweiz for the fourth time .
The motto of the 2009 Festifall was “So close, but so strange - neighborhoods”. The relationships between the immediate and indirect neighbors of the Rhine Falls were the subject of a variety of artistic actions and performances. For the first time, the WBF Recognition Prize was awarded to one artist each as a prize for timeless work . It went to the conductor and director Graziella Contratto, the laudation was given by Ursus & Nadeschkin , and also to the Swiss actor Bruno Ganz . The German actor Otto Sander gave the laudatory speech .
suspense intact
From June to July 2004, many of Beat Toniolo's works were shown for the first time in Germany in the Tumulka art bunker in Munich . Under the title suspense intact - Let yourself be tense up for a while , Toniolo showed installations and objects together with texts by the Munich writer Ursula Haas. As a team, the two have been following their style direction thematically and project-related for years: “Clear, resolute and critical they show the reflection of society. The work has lost none of its explosiveness - on the contrary. The installations, objects and texts are not rigid and definitely understandable. They keep their form and content, but experience changes through compatible interventions and new rooms (bunkers) without losing redundancy. "
Reading series with Rüdiger Safranski
In 2009, the Schiller Year, Beat Toniolo toured Switzerland for the third time with the German philosopher and writer Rüdiger Safranski . In 2005, the reading series was exclusively dedicated to Friedrich Schiller, but in 2008 it had the motto Romanticism - a German affair . In 2009 Safranski presented his book on Goethe and Schiller in front of the Schiller Bell. The bell, which was cast in Basel in 1486, once hung in the Schaffhausen minster tower and was one of the sources of inspiration for Schiller's poem about the bell from 1799. According to Safranski, it was Goethe who inspired the younger Schiller to work on the legend from which the heroic epic of the Swiss epic Freedom fighter Wilhelm Tell was.
Awards
- 1996: 1st prize sliding glass works of art for employees, Endress + Hauser Flowtec
- 2009: European FESPA / HP Award and Platinum Award for the largest EM country flag net vinyl (22.5 m × 15 m) in the Rhine Falls basin
- 2011: Ambassador 2010 of the Ambassador Club Schaffhausen
Publicly owned and / or publicly available works
architectural art
- Ciba Geigy, Kaisten plant; Glass works of art
- Kantonsspital Schaffhausen, glass work of art Gynecological Dept.
- Elektra Birseck, St. Louis / Fr; Acrylic art works
- Injecta, Teufental; Acrylic glass artwork / lithography prints
- Endress + Hauser, Flowtec in Reinach; Competition 1st prize: Realization of sliding glass works of art for employee meeting points
Art projects for companies
- Sanatrend, health media; various creative assignments
- Gardena Switzerland; "Art and Nature" series of pictures
- Skye-Pharma Europe, Muttenz; 20 years anniversary; Employee painting project
- Sandoz Austria, Tinguely Museum Basel; Doctors paint a picture, followed by 120 fine art prints
Image purchases
- Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall / SHA
- Swiss Bank Corporation, Stuttgart
- Migros GB, Zurich
Solo and double exhibitions / projects
- 1991/93: Individual exhibition of pictures as part of the Swiss Culture Days in Schwäbisch Hall, Der Adelshof
- 1997: Aquarium coffins , objects and material pictures, texts by Ursula Haas, Galerie 40, Wiesbaden
- 1999: 50 YEARS EUROPARAT , word-picture-installations and performance on the Münsterhof in Zurich, initiated by Roger de Weck, freelance journalist / Zurich and Berlin
- 1999: Peace Performances in Basel, Bern, Lucerne, Schaffhausen and Winterthur
- 2000: KUNST> <POLITIK with Günther Uecker, Ursula Haas, Prof. Iso Camartin, NR Marc F. Suter and others, supported by the German Embassy in Bern, Kunsthaus Grenchen
- 2001: LICHT FELD 1 , installation 'Schau-hin-Weg', advertising slogans> <Schicksalsbilder, Gundeldingerfeld, Basel
- 2004: suspens intact or let yourself be teased with Ursula Haas, installations, objects and performances, Kunst-Bunker Tumulka, Munich
- 2004: all pictures , 30 new works form the background for jazz concerts and Ghaselen reading with Ursula Haas, Sulzer-Areal Winterthur
- 2007: War , installation and performance at the Swiss Congress. Society for Sociology with Prof. Dr. Ueli Mäder, University of Basel
- 2015: Swiss watch for Rüdiger Safranski on the occasion of its re-release "Time, what it does to us and what we make of it"
Group exhibitions / projects (selection)
- 1991: Group exhibition with Jean Tinguely , Jeannie Borel and Roger Mühl (France), Mühle-Gallerie in Jonen / AG (Walter Walde)
- 1994: Group exhibition with Fritz Russ, Christoph Hohler and W. Kufferath, Galerie Götz, Basel
- 1995: Where-Switzerland-To? , Concerts and lectures with Ursula Haas, Silvio Borner , Aymo Brunetti , Peter Hartmeier , old pottery factory, Schaffhausen
- 1998: New impulses for tolerance , environments and performances for '350 Years of Westphalian Peace' under the patronage of the Swiss Ambassador and the Cultural Councilor of Switzerland in Germany, the Museum of Cultural History and the Municipal Theaters of Osnabrück
- 1999: I can't get peace , installation and performance exhibition with Hans Saner , Georg Kreis , etc., project space M54 in Basel, supported by GGG Basel
- 2006: Cleopatra's dream , performance by and with Beat Toniolo, Orna Ralston, Monika Rechsteiner, Pit Gutmann and Ruedi Linder, Skulpturhalle Basel
- 2006: Looking back on the out-side and out-side looking back with Ralf Schlatter, Ruth Schweikert , Peter Zeindler and Ursula Haas, St. Johann Church in Schaffhausen
- 2006: randen ARTour , art in nature on the Randen in Schaffhausen with Roman Signer , Roger Willemsen , Ruedi Sommerhalder , Landart from Hanover, Maike Gräf, Hans Ruh , Pierre Favre
- 2006: Life again , artistic director of the art and culture project about dying, mourning and death, with Dieter Laser , Ursula Haas, Suna Baldinger, Michael Paulussen , among others
- 2008: the largest European championship flag in the world , greeting with literature boats on the Rhine basin at the Rhine Falls and the EBM building in Münchenstein, with Kurt Imhof , Klaus Theweleit , Ralf Schlatter, Gabriel Vetter , Pedro Lenz , Wolfgang Bortlik and many more.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Schuler: "Culture overcomes all borders". In: suedkurier.de. May 31, 2012, archived from the original on October 22, 2017 ; accessed on May 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Daniel Thüler: Immerse yourself in the Rhine Falls . In: Schaffhauser Bock . 53rd year, no. 40 , October 2, 2018 ( bockonline.ch [accessed November 30, 2018]).
- ↑ Z Kiev speaks me in dialect. In: Sternstunde Kunst. SRF, August 1, 2015, accessed on November 27, 2017 (video no longer available.).
- ↑ Albert Bächtold. In: albertbaechtold.ch. Retrieved November 19, 2014 .
- ^ Art bunker Tumulka (closed, 2007). In: artfacts.net. March 17, 2017, accessed January 11, 2018 .
- ^ Beat Toniolo - suspense intact. Press release. In: kunstaspekte.at. June 2004, accessed March 31, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.wortundbildfestifall.ch/
- ↑ "suspense intact" or "let yourself be put under suspicion". In: kunstbunker-tumulka.de. Archived from the original on April 12, 2010 ; accessed on October 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Fespa Digital Print Award 2009 goes to German printing company. In: worldofprint.de. May 21, 2009. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Video on Youtube
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ http://www.gardena.ch
- ↑ Video contribution ( Memento from May 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on ART-TV
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Toniolo, beat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss political and performance artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schaffhausen |