Remy Zaugg

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Rémy Zaugg (born January 11, 1943 in Courgenay ; † August 23, 2005 in Arlesheim ) was a Swiss painter and was best known as a conceptual artist .

Life

Rémy Zaugg - a descendant of Mennonites - attended the arts and crafts school in Basel after graduating from high school in Porrentruy . In 1970 and 1971 he received the Federal Art Scholarship . Zaugg lived and worked in Basel and Pfastatt , near Mulhouse.

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In his conceptual works, Zaugg dealt with perception, which was not limited to seeing, but saw people in a reciprocal relationship to the world. His work includes paintings , works on paper , sculptures in public spaces, art in construction projects ( Basel-Stadt State Archives , Aargauer Kunsthaus ), urbanistic analyzes and architectural designs.

His debates on art theory, especially the book Das Kunstmuseum, which I dream of. Or The Place of Work and Man (1987) are standard texts today for art connoisseurs, art historians and artists. Zaugg has always questioned all generally accepted certainties. In 1990 he received the Art Prize of the City of Basel .

His collaboration with the architects Herzog & de Meuron , with whom he realized around 15 projects in the years before his death, including the extension of the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau, received international attention . The studio Rémy Zaugg in Mulhouse-Pfastatt, designed by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, was presented as part of the 2001 Pritzker Prize awarded to Herzog & de Meuron.

In addition to his artistic activities, he was a recognized exhibition organizer and, for example, organized the comprehensive Alberto Giacometti retrospective of 1991 in Paris.

Exhibitions

  • 1972: Dedans-Dehors, Kunstmuseum Basel
  • 1977: Biennale de Paris
  • 1982: Documenta 7 , Kassel
  • 1984: A Sheet of Paper, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven
  • 1987: Sculpture projects in Münster 1987 [1]
  • 1988: For a picture, Kunsthalle Basel
  • 1989: A sheet of paper, perceptual sketches, or the creation of a picture, works from 1973–1989, Folkwang Museum Essen
  • 1990: Une feuille de papier, Musee d'Art Contemporain Lyon
  • 1990: Sydney Biennale
  • 1991: Alberto Giacometti, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
  • 1992: Rémy Zaugg, Le Consortium Dijon
  • 1992: Factory exhibition in Hamburg; Attachment of the lettering "Canals, railway bridge, warehouses, ship, clouds, sky, wind, harbor cranes" on the Oberhafenbrücke
  • 1993: Someone , Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History , Münster
  • 1993: Outside , Society for Contemporary Art , Bremen. Word tablet Nelson Mandela Bridge Arnhem / Holland.
  • 1994: Tableau Aveugles 1986–1991, Modulo, Lisbon
  • 1995: Herzog & de Meuron, Center Georges Pompidou Paris
  • 1996: Painting 1973–1994, Barbara Gross Galerie Munich
  • 1997: Rémy Zaugg, retrospective, Ein Fragment, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
  • 1997: Public Works, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven
  • 1998: Le Monde dit, The world speaks, total work of art in the Federal Administration Building, Bern
  • 1999: I, I, see. Barbara Gross Gallery Munich
  • 1999: Rémy Zaugg, look, you're blind, look, Kunsthalle Basel
  • 1999: The XX. Century - A Century of Art in Germany, National Gallery Berlin
  • 2000: About Death, Kunsthalle Bern
  • 2000: Sense and sensuality - body + mind in pictures, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen
  • 2001: Architecture by Herzog & de Meuron, wall painting by Rémy Zaugg, for Roche Basel
  • 2001: image. Recent Portraiture and Depiction, Steirischer Herbst , Graz
  • 2001: Nauman, Felix Gonzalez Torres and Zaugg at Magasin 3 in Stockholm.
  • 2002: About death II, Art Unlimited, Art 33, Basel
  • 2002: Nouvelle simplicité - art "construit" et architecture suisse contemporaine, Espace de l'Art Concret at the Château de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux.
  • 2002 French Collection - rien ne presse / slow and steady / festina lente / deuxième épisode, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
  • 2002: IMAGINE, YOU ARE STANDING HERE IN FRONT OF ME, Caldic Collection, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  • 2002: Les années 70: l'art en cause at the CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain Entrepôt, Bordeaux
  • 2003: Why! Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
  • 2003: Talking Pieces - Text and Image in Contemporary Art , Leverkusen City Museum, Morsbroich Castle, Leverkusen
  • 2003: On Kawara: Consciousness, meditation, watcher on the hill, 2002 - Rémy Zaugg: De la mort II, 1999–2002 , Le Consortium, Dijon
  • 2003: Rémy Zaugg Works 1963–2003 , Galerie Mai 36, Zurich
  • 2004: Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
  • 2004: A – Z , Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
  • 2004: White Spirit , Frac Lorraine, Metz
  • 2015/2016: Remy Zaugg. The question of perception , Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen
  • 2016 Rémy Zaugg. Cuestiones de percepción , Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa (in the Palacio Velazquez), Madrid, tier
  • 2017 Rémy Zaugg Voici Voilà Voyez , triple exposition, Musée de l'Hôtel de Dieu, Porrentruy, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Delémont, Musée jurassien des arts, Moutier

Publications

  • The ruse of innocence: the perception of a sculpture. 1982.
  • with Atelier 5: For the work of art (Kunstmuseum Bern). Ammann, 1983.
  • The art museum that I dream of. Or the place of the work and the people. 1987, ISBN 3-88375-069-7 .
  • The creation of a picture. 1990, ISBN 3-909158-43-9 .
  • Voir Mort. 1990, ISBN 3-909158-36-6 .
  • Herzog & De Meuron an Exhibition , Hatje Cantz, 1997.
  • Collected Writings. 10 volumes. ed. Eva Schmidt. Verlag Snoeck, Cologne 2016 and French edition, les presses du réel, 2016.

literature

  • Rémy Zaugg, a monograph. Gerhard Mack, 2005, ISBN 2-919923-72-2 (also published in French and English)
  • Remy Zaugg, conversations with Jean-Christophe Ammann. Portrait. Hatje Cantz, 1994, ISBN 3-89322-652-4 .
  • Hans R Reust, Eva Schmidt, Josef Zwicker: Rémy Zaugg. An access to the state archive in the making. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2001, ISBN 3-933096-54-5 .
  • An architecture by Herzog & de Meuron. A wall painting by Remy Zaugg. A work for Roche Basel. Birkhäuser, 2001, ISBN 3-7643-6620-6 .
  • Bernhard Fibicher: Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) . In: Die Weltwoche . No. 35/2005 . Weltwoche Verlag, Zurich August 31, 2005 ( Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) [accessed January 18, 2013] obituary).
  • Remy Zaugg. The question of perception. Exhibition catalog (in a German, English and Spanish edition) with texts by Javier Hontoria, Ignasio Aballí, Mathilde de Croix and Eva Schmidt. Publishing house Snoeck, Cologne 2015.
  • Après Rémy Zaugg. Avant Rémy Zaugg. Ed .: Clément Crevoisier, Valentine Reymond, Valery Rion. les presses du réel, 2018.
  • Look I'm blind, look From Rémy Zaugg to John Baldessari - the Hans and Monika Furer collection. Kunstmuseum Basel, Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2019.

Web links

Commons : Rémy Zaugg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. The Pritzker Architecture Prize, accessed February 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zaugg, Remy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Courgenay , Canton of Jura, Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 2005
Place of death Basel , Switzerland