Corsin Fontana
Corsin Fontana (born April 19, 1944 in Domat / Ems Chur ) is a Swiss artist who works in the areas of object art , drawing , woodcut , painting , film , action art , installation and building art .
life and work
Corsin Fontana worked as an offset printer until 1967 . In 1969 he stayed at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris . In addition to his work as an artist, he was a shepherd on an alpine pasture in the canton of Graubünden . He was traveling through North Africa. Corsin Fontana is a member of the Farnsburg Group .
Between 1966 and 1968 he created small-format watercolors on paper. From 1973 onwards, Corsin Fontana used pork and beef bladders as material, filled them with clay and, after several further processing steps, displayed them dried and shrunk. The group of works on paper objects was created in the early 1970s. Fragile sculptures, wall and floor objects that took on a brown color due to the use of potassium permanganate . After the series cautery images , sun exposure and cobwebs objects followed woodcuts and then, from 1990, circular and oval configurations .
Corsin Fontana takes the time between the various groups of works to reorient himself and to discard old patterns. In this sense, each group of works stands for itself and there is no unnecessary production of workpieces.
His work is a combination of aesthetics and reference to nature.
"I strive for simplicity and sparseness."
Corsin Fontana is represented by the Tony Wuethrich Galerie and the Costa Galerie. He lives and works in Basel.
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 2012: Painted Proofs. Museum zu Allerheiligen , Schaffhausen
- 2009: Corsin Fontana, retrospective. Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur
- 2008: New drawings. Museum of Contemporary Art Basel
- 1998: drawing. Kunsthaus Baselland , Muttenz
- 1993: Dortmund Art Association
- 1991: Kunsthalle Winterthur
- 1980: Palazzo cultural center, Liestal
Group exhibitions
- 2009: Art Prize of the Willy Raeber Foundation, Valbella
- 2007: An exhibition on the Farnsburgergruppe Basel. Klingental exhibition space , Basel
- 2001: Impression, experiment. Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier
- 1991: Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal
- 1989: Dimension Petit. Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
- 1987: Ute and Michael Berger collection, sculptures and objects. Wiesbaden Museum
- 1978: Basel artist. Art Museum Thun
- 1977: Metamorphoses of the Book. documenta 6 , Kassel
- 1974: ambience. Winterthur Art Museum
- 1973: Gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck
- 1972: 11 young people from Basel. Kunsthalle Basel
literature
- Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books. Kassel, 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X , page 312.
Individual evidence
- ^ Beat Stutzer: Fontana, Corsin. In: Sikart (status: 1998), accessed on August 21, 2015.
- ^ Performance Chronik Basel, Peter F. Althaus: Corsin Fontana's actions with tubes. ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
- ↑ Artist, Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art by Simon Baur Corsin Fontana ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 29, 2014
- ↑ Tony Wuethrich Gallery Corsin Fontana , accessed October 29, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fontana, Corsin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss artist (object art, drawing, woodcut, painting, film, action art, installation and art in construction) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Domat / Ems |