Roman Signer Works 1971-2000

For Swiss artist Roman Singer art is a process or situation, not a fixed object. Since the seventies Singer has been harnessing natural forces – wind, water and fire in the form of explosions – and working them into films, videos and photographs which function as essential documentation of a transitory happening. He causes commonplace and not-so-commonplace objects to do things they normally don’t, and all his expertise, inventiveness and experience are harnessed so that the outcome is usually something curiously incongruous: a successful fiasco. Signer combines elegance with anarchy, and a light touch with dark humour. The selection of works span three decades, and includes the complete collection of his Super-8 films transferred on to video.