MACK GERHARD

Roman Signer An illumating study of the Swiss artist's explosive work.Survey by Gerhard Mack, Interview by Paula van den Bosch, Focus by Jeremy Millar, Artist's Choice by F. Sauter, Writings by Roman Signer Swiss artist Roman Signer (b.1938) combines unorthodox sculpture materials (balloons, bicycles, dynamite) with elemental forces (pressure, gravity, fire) to make work that is, at times, literally explosive A prolific artist, at work since the early 1970s, Signer builds on the traditions of Minimalism, Viennese Aktionism and Arte Povera to create a vision that is uniquely his own His work has been exhibited at major venues across Europe and North America, as well as at such exhibitions such as Documenta 8 (1987), Skulptur Projekte in Munster (1997) and the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), where he represented Switzerland Gerhard Mack is an art and architecture critic based in Switzerland. Previous publications include Art Museums of the 21st Century (1999) and Herzog & De Meuron: the Complete Works (1996, 2005). He has also written extensively on the work of Roman Signer. Paula van den Bosch is Curator of Contemporary Art at Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, where she organized a major retrospective of Roman Signer's work in 2000. Jeremy Millar is an artist, critic and curator who has organized exhibitions at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Photographers Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London This book is the first monograph to cover the whole of Signer's distinguished career to date