Roman Signer: New Works

An automatic lawn mower rings a bell, an inflatable balloon leaves a trace in the sand, a boat sails on barrels. At Roman's Signer (*1938 in Appenzell), everything is in motion - without rules, one can ask how much this inspires his speech? No, the artist conceives well more sculpture as a procedural description of a state and thus extends the three familiar dimensions of objects to a fourth: time. Which has earned his works to be called "time sculptures" (Zeitskulptur). However, Roman Signer's works have long occupied a position prominent on the international scene, he was notably present at the documenta (1987), at the Skulptur Projekten in Münster (1997). The book of the Kestnergesellschaft thus presents a perfectly known artist and his all latest works that once again fill us with the inherent poetry to things and the grotesque in everyday life.