The Lewis Baltz Library - Steidl

Roman Signer
Projektionen
Super-8 Films and Videos 1975-2008
Projektionen brings together frames from all of the Super-8 and video films made by the Swiss artist Roman Signer. As
fractions of time, the stills mark key moments in Signer’s precisely choreographed work: moments of collapse, of
extreme acceleration and of temporary or prolonged hiatus, of transformation, of consolidation and dispersion. The
images convey Signer’s handling of time and space, movement and process, energy and energy conversion, chemistry
and physics, experimental play and nomological consequence, reality and potential, natural science and existential
philosophy. This book presents a cross-section of Signer’s work and contains a catalog raisonné of all his Super-8
films and videos.
Roman Signer, born in Appenzell in 1938, achieved international fame through his activities with explosive materials.
His work is primarily seen in public places. He has also shown his work in exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich,
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Biennale Venice and in the Hauser & Wirth collection in St. Gallen, O.K. Centrum für
Gegenwartskunst in Linz, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin and the Rochester Art Center. He lives in St. Gallen.
Exhibition: Helmhaus, Zürich, 24 October, 2008 to 11 January, 2009
Co-published with Helmhaus Zürich and the publishing house Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich
Roman Signer
Projektionen: Super-8 Films and Videos 1975-2008
Essay by Simon Maurer
Book design by Peter Zimmermann
176 pages with 75 color and b/w plates
14.9 x 11.8 in./38 x 30 cm
Clothbound hardcover
US$99.00/£50.00/€65.00
ISBN 978-3-86521-747-9
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