Roman Signer

Travel Photos
Publisher's Description
Since the early 1970s, Roman Signer has been making
art that refuses to be described in conventional
terms. His objects and installations look like science
experiments, and his photographs and films
seem only to document their results: in compliance
with carefully planned and strictly executed and
documented procedures, Signer sets off explosions
and collisions, sending his materials flying through
space. Videos like Boot with Rocket capture the
original setup, soon to self-destruct. Signer’s work
gives cause and effect a humorous twist, as it does
the scientific method, taking on the self-evidence
of scientific logic as an artistic challenge. But in the
midst of all this, Signer has also been making a
much quieter and more conventional body of work,
not unlike the one most readers keep in a shoebox
on a shelf in their closets: his “Reisefotos,” or travel
photographs, track the great experiments of 20
years on and off the road, found works that, like
Signer’s own, called out to be documented.
Whether his subject is a host’s arrangement of
objects or an event he’s reluctantly participating in,
it takes on an illustrative or narrative element, and
sometimes a touch of irony. Travel Photos presents a
previously unknown but completely characteristic
side of Signer’s work.
ISBN: 3865212824
Publisher: Steidl
Paperback : 240 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 6.3 x 9 x 1 inches
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Publisher: Steidl
Paperback : 240 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 6.3 x 9 x 1 inches