Ueli Berger
09 May - 05 Aug 2007
UELI BERGER
"Works on paper 1967 - 2007"
09 May 2007 - 05 August 2007
Opening: Tuesday, May 8, 18h30
Ueli Berger (born in 1937 in Bern) represents one of the abiding values in Swiss art. Since the 1970s, he has been present in the most diverse locales with his installations and extremely thought-provoking happenings in public places.In addition to sculpture, installations, objects and video films, his interests include painting, drawing, prints and photography.
The exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts Bern focuses on a lesser-known aspect of Ueli Berger's work and, in an overview of his work, shows works on paper from the last forty years. In the main these are autonomous works - drawings, photographs, photo collages, and prints - as well as project sketches and drawings that are relevant to installations.
The diversity of styles, media and materials that Berger avails himself of is characteristic of his work and indicates that the focus of his artistic interest does not lie in materiality but in the posing of other questions. One central theme is the interplay of spatiality, line and surface which he examines in the most diverse media again and again. In Ueli Berger's creative oeuvre, drawing represents an instrument for visual thought processes that can lead to the creation of installations as well as their documentation. These project drawings, some of which are rough sketches and some executed in precise detail, give insight into the planning process of complex spatial installations. In addition to this, photographs, photo collages, drawings and prints are also created that, due to the unconventional application of everyday materials and industrial products, reveal even two-dimensional images as three-dimensional. And since 1996, micro-photographs have been made from miniature drawings that illustrate in a striking manner that a line is by no means an absolutely two-dimensional phenomenon. As the exhibition places the main emphasis on works on paper, it makes it possible to have insight from an unusual perspective into Ueli Berger's artistic thinking and creativity in which the second and third dimensions are inextricably entwined with one another.
"Works on paper 1967 - 2007"
09 May 2007 - 05 August 2007
Opening: Tuesday, May 8, 18h30
Ueli Berger (born in 1937 in Bern) represents one of the abiding values in Swiss art. Since the 1970s, he has been present in the most diverse locales with his installations and extremely thought-provoking happenings in public places.In addition to sculpture, installations, objects and video films, his interests include painting, drawing, prints and photography.
The exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts Bern focuses on a lesser-known aspect of Ueli Berger's work and, in an overview of his work, shows works on paper from the last forty years. In the main these are autonomous works - drawings, photographs, photo collages, and prints - as well as project sketches and drawings that are relevant to installations.
The diversity of styles, media and materials that Berger avails himself of is characteristic of his work and indicates that the focus of his artistic interest does not lie in materiality but in the posing of other questions. One central theme is the interplay of spatiality, line and surface which he examines in the most diverse media again and again. In Ueli Berger's creative oeuvre, drawing represents an instrument for visual thought processes that can lead to the creation of installations as well as their documentation. These project drawings, some of which are rough sketches and some executed in precise detail, give insight into the planning process of complex spatial installations. In addition to this, photographs, photo collages, drawings and prints are also created that, due to the unconventional application of everyday materials and industrial products, reveal even two-dimensional images as three-dimensional. And since 1996, micro-photographs have been made from miniature drawings that illustrate in a striking manner that a line is by no means an absolutely two-dimensional phenomenon. As the exhibition places the main emphasis on works on paper, it makes it possible to have insight from an unusual perspective into Ueli Berger's artistic thinking and creativity in which the second and third dimensions are inextricably entwined with one another.