Rémy ZauggDie Frage der Wahrnehmung

Key Works / Key Texts – The work of the Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) has always impressed through its interdisciplinary approach and the theoretical grounding of his artistic practice, with painting remaining Zaugg’s pivotal point throughout. His artistic position is still so unique not least because he posed first and foremost the existential question of perception. Without the perception of the artist as well as of the viewer, and without constant engagement with its ever new conditions, no artistic work comes about. Such a work can only be process-oriented and must deliver itself up to phenomena; it cannot therefore be reduced to the object. And so for Rémy Zaugg painting (from the 1960s onwards) always counted as a kind of basic research for the applied projects, whether in architecture or in urbanism. His texts on museum and exhibition architecture (from the 1980s and 1990s) may be regarded as key texts of artistic reflection, in which astonishingly simple insights are formulated with suggestive rhetoric. The retrospective volume now planned is being published for the tenth anniversary of the artist’s death; no current publication on his visual oeuvre is available in the trade. The book also contains a small cross-section of the artist’s unusual essayistic work.

Exhibitions:
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, 1/11/2015 – 6/3/2016
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, 7/4 – 28/8/2016