Rémy Zaugg: Die Frage der Wahrnehmung

Key works / key texts

The work of Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943-2005) has always impressed with its indisciplinary approach and theoretical foundation in artistic practice, whereby painting has always remained the focal point for Zaugg. His artistic position is still so unique because he first and foremost posed the existential question of perception. Without the perception of both the artist and the viewer and without a constant confrontation with their ever-changing conditions, there can be no artistic work. This can only be process-orientated and surrender to phenomena, and therefore cannot be reduced to the object. And so Rémy Zaugg has always regarded painting (since the 1960s) as a kind of basic research for applied projects, whether in architecture or urbanism. His texts on museum and exhibition architecture (from the 1980s and 1990s) can be regarded as key texts of artistic exploration, in which astonishingly simple insights are formulated with suggestive rhetoric.
The retrospective volume now planned is being published to mark the 10th anniversary of the artist's death, and there is no current publication on his visual work on the market. This book also contains a small cross-section of the artist's unusual essayistic work.

Exhibitions:
Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen, 1/11/2015 - 6/3/2016
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, 7/4 - 28/8/2016