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Roman SIGNER, <Installation with Sand, Chairs, Buckets and Water>, Sand, Chairs, buckets, Water, cable, 400x1200x600cm, 2016
Roman SIGNER Installation with Sand, Chairs, Buckets and Water
The artistic events that Roman Signer constructs for us are based on process, play, experiment and wonder. His materials are elemental physical phenomena-observations all the more astonishing in view of the humor that informs this artist’s oeuvre. These elements show that amazing world of humor. It is an extremely subtle brand of humor yet to be discovered by the art world. The serenity, clarity, and lightness of Signer’s actions impress us. They are devoid of the tautological leadenness of certain art in the seventies that agonized righteously in an attempt to demonstrate that water flows and a chair is a chair. Signer’s gestures are not heroic, although, appearing as a dramaturge of suspense, he causes an explosive release, even a psychosensual detonation. He does not fill the expected role of the ingenious, individualist artist but he draws attention to an object by discovering and releasing its startling, unsuspected potential. We know about the possibilities of ordinary spray cans and rubber boots and bicycles and kitchen chairs, but we also learn how limited are both the horizon of our knowledge and our relationship to the things of this world. |
