John Stutz

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John Stutz: Installation «Crying Planets», June 2015
John Stutz (June 2015)

John Stutz , actually Jean Stutz , (born January 14, 1933 in Rorschach ) is a Swiss artist. His works include works made of polyurethane , steel sculptures and installations. As a live performer, he made a name for himself in 2011 with his solidarity campaign for the major Swiss banks. Stutz lives and works in Rorschach and in Pawling , New York .

Career

Before working as an artist, John Stutz was an entrepreneur. From 1970 to 1998, the trained machine fitter and chemical clerk managed the family's own production and trading company for liquid plastics, where he developed the construction of sports fields in particular. Still family-owned today, the Douglas (Isle of Man) -based company continues to operate in this area.

Artistic work

John Stutz is self-taught . His artistic work is varied and above all stands for a unique use of highly specialized industrial materials and process technologies. Inspired by Expressionist works, he regularly created oil paintings in the early 1960s and exhibited them in Zurich at that time. In the 1980s, John Stutz met the Swiss exhibition organizer Harald Szeemann (1933–2005) and received pioneering ideas for his later artistic creation, which was characterized by exclusive high-tech materials, to which he devoted himself exclusively from 1998.

In the 1990s, he first looked for ways to creatively use polyurethane resins (liquid plastics) and subsequently developed a process to cast pictures up to 7 cm thick with different surfaces in several colors. The design and execution of these so-called "cast pictures" are part of the creative process, color mixing and determination of the degree of hardness are controlled by a computer. His second discipline is sculpture. Here Stutz works in particular with steel, which he mills into sculptures up to 30 cm thick, as well as with foamed aluminum, which he designs into two meter high towers and coated with polyurethane.

To date, his work comprises more than 600 works and has been exhibited in museum exhibitions in Eastern Switzerland (Museum im Kornhaus Rorschach) as well as in New York galleries such as the A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery and renowned art fairs such as the 2013 Triennale de Paris. The steel sculptures and cast pictures by John Stutz were given a place of honor in 2011 at the Art Biennale X «Mange» in St. Petersburg, where the main hall was made available to the works and the well-known Butoh master Katsura Kan served as a backdrop for his live performance at the opening of the fair . Well-known purchases can be found in the collection of Zurich Insurance, the World Football Association Fifa, the municipality of Horgen (ZH) or the Unternehmerforum Lilienberg (TG).

Installations and performances

In the present, John Stutz has attracted attention through some live performances. His installation “I love the three giants” attracted greater attention, but also received criticism. In front of the headquarters of the major Swiss banks Credit Suisse, UBS and Zürcher Kantonalbank, he presented a heavy steel sculpture with the inscription “I love UBS”, “I love CS” and "I love KB" and expressed his solidarity with the heavily criticized financial institutions. Equally controversial was the installation “Good luck euro” in front of the main entrance of the Swiss National Bank in 2012, when he placed hundreds of gold nuggets made of polyurethane to congratulate the SNB for buying 500 billion euros to fix the Swiss franc. As a critic of a closed art establishment, he finally demonstrated in the Löwenbräuareal in Zurich in 2013 with the installation “The Curators” against a network of established curators and gallery owners who are increasingly closing themselves off to artists outside their own network. The museum management instructed the police to clear the installation.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2015 - Barcelona: Bienal de Arte
  • 2015 - Berlin: B.AGL
  • 2014 - St. Gallen: Exhibition by the Federal Administrative Court
  • 2014 - Rorschach: Installation “5 to 12” Museum im Kornhaus
  • 2014 - Los Angeles: World Wide Art
  • 2014 - Sculpture Trail Sur En / Sent, Graubünden
  • 2014 - Tehran: 1st Art Collect Iran
  • 2014 - Constance: Rosenau-Park am See
  • 2013 - New York: Amsterdam-Whitney Gallery
  • 2013 - Shanghai: Shanghai Art Fair
  • 2013 - Konstanz: Inselhotel Steigenberger, sculptures in the park
  • 2013 - Baden-Baden: Exposition of the old steam bath
  • 2013 - Sculpture Trail Sur En / Sent, Graubünden
  • 2013 - New York: A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery
  • 2013 - Paris: Triennale de Paris
  • 2012 - Rorschach: Sculpture exhibition Museum in the Kornhaus
  • 2012 - Zurich: Design of the reception of the Allreal building at Zollstrasse 62
  • 2012 - Shanghai: Shanghai Art Fair
  • 2012 - New York: A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery
  • 2011 - Shanghai: Shanghai Art Fair
  • 2011 - St. Petersburg: X Biennale «Manege»
  • 2011 - New York: A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery
  • 2010 - New York: A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery

Video documentations (selection)

  • «Deer and Foxes», (2015): Live performance, edge of the forest, horn, just music
  • “Public Viewing”, (2014): Live Performance, in Arbon, just Music
  • «Der Glockenturm», (2014): Live Performance, Kornhausmuseum, Rorschach, German
  • “The curators” (2013): Live Performance Migros Museum, Zurich, in English
  • “John Stutz attacking Swiss National Bank”, (2012): Live performance in front of the Swiss National Bank
  • "I love the 3 giants" (2011): Live performance on Paradeplatz Zurich

literature

  • Thomas Tunberg (2014): World Wide Art LA; Catalog description.
  • St. Galler Tagblatt, (June 17, 2014): “The bells of the impulse”.
  • St. Galler Tagblatt, (April 19, 2014): “When 19 bells ring”.
  • Monique Würz, Tatjana zu Schaumburg-Lippe (2013): Works catalog John Stutz.
  • Françoise Icart (2013): Triennale de Paris; Catalog description.
  • Jain Maronouchy (2012): Gallery House, New York; Catalog description.
  • Monique Würtz (2012): “Kultur am Bodensee” magazine, John Stutz's world of ideas.
  • Culture on Lake Constance, (September 2012): «The world as a treasure trove. John Stutz with new work ».
  • Valerie Gladstone, NY, (2012): "Exhibition Critics".
  • St. Galler Tagblatt, (September 2012): “Stutz on Paradeplatz”.
  • Culture on Lake Constance, (May 10, 2012): “The world of ideas from John Stutz”.
  • Tamara Kudrigavtseva (2011): Biennale St. Petersburg; Catalog description and television interviews.
  • Valerie Gladstone (2011): Affluant Pages, New York “Durable Works of Beauty”.
  • Russian ArtTV (2011): Contribution to the St. Petersburg Biennale.
  • St. Galler Tagblatt, (November 11, 2011): “Next destination Moscow”.
  • St. Galler Tagblatt, (April 7, 2011): «Declaration of love to the banks».
  • ART news NY, (October 2011): “Gallery review John Stutz”.
  • Swiss television SRF (May 6, 1993): «Switzerland Current» report with studio recordings.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monique Würtz (2012) magazine “Kultur am Bodensee”: http://www.john-stutz.ch/assets/3_neue-abreiten.pdf
  2. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt 2011: Next destination Moscow - http://www.john-stutz.ch/assets/5_ziel_moskau.pdf
  3. ↑ Homepage of the Sunbeam Group: http://www.sunbeam-iom.org
  4. ^ Exhibition review 2011 Art news NY: http://www.john-stutz.ch/assets/7_artnews.pdf
  5. ^ Biography of John Stutz: http://www.john-stutz.ch/biographie-j.-stutz.html
  6. ↑ Report on SRF “Schweiz Aktuell”
  7. ^ Exhibition opening 2014 Museum im Kornhaus: http://www.john-stutz.ch/assets/2_19_glocken.pdf
  8. ↑ Reporting on the 2012 exhibition: http://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/stgallen/rorschach/tb-ot08/In-Shanghai-und-in-Rorschach;art2889,2974067
  9. ^ Exhibition review : http://www.john-stutz.ch/assets/gladstone.pdf
  10. ↑ Performance Video Katsura Kahn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQbT2IlkcPU
  11. ↑ Russion Art TV 2011: http://www.john-stutz.ch/videos-j.-stutz.html
  12. ^ Biography of John Stutz: http://www.john-stutz.ch/biographie-j.-stutz.html
  13. ↑ Reporting on the performance “I like the 3 Giants”: http://www.john-stutz.ch/assets/6_liebeserklärung.pdf
  14. ↑ Reporting 20 minutes: http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/zuerich/story/21336210
  15. ↑ YouTube video documentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_8dAU_gjtc
  16. ↑ YouTube video documentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2XukrEvQno
personal data
SURNAME Stutz, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stutz, Jean (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Rorschach