{"id":700,"name":"","email":"","language_id":1,"permalink":"roman-signer","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"http://www.romansigner.ch/en","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1938-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Roman","lastname":"Signer","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Roman Signer","date_of_death":null,"cached_name_asc":"Signer, Roman","stream_count_app":18,"gender":"other","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":null,"poster_credits":null,"media_count":0,"items_count":1,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eSwiss-born artist Roman Signer (\u0026deg;1938) is a veteran of the European conceptual/performance art movement of the seventies, and continues to assume a wholly unique position within the broader context of today\u0026rsquo;s globalized art world \u0026ndash; if only for the consistency with which he has singled out the primordial natural elements of earth, fire, water and air (and the magical powers of transformation they denote) as the ongoing thematic obsessions, since the early seventies, of his idiosyncratic artistic practice. His oeuvre consists of a great number of so-called \u0026ldquo;sculptural events\u0026rdquo;: experimental actions and performances in which pseudo-scientific inquiry, boyish curiosity and absurdist, deadpan humour mingle to brew a unique, parodic cocktail not unlike that served up by Signer\u0026rsquo;s compatriots Peter Fischli \u0026amp; David Weiss, whose work shows the discernible traces, however oblique, of their peer\u0026rsquo;s influence.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe Zwitserse kunstenaar Roman Signer (\u0026deg;1938) is een veteraan van de Europese conceptuele kunstsc\u0026egrave;ne van de jaren zeventig, en blijft een unieke figuur binnen het artistieke landschap: de natuurelementen aarde, water, lucht en vuur vormen (samen met hun potentieel tot transformatie en kruisbestuiving) sinds 1972 onafgebroken een leidraad in zijn oeuvre, dat uit een grote reeks onderscheiden \u0026ldquo;sculpturale evenementen\u0026rdquo; bestaat \u0026ndash; experimentele acties en performances waarin jongensachtige nieuwsgierigheid, pseudo-wetenschappelijke persiflage en absurde humor, net zoals in het werk van Signers landgenoten Fischli \u0026amp; Weiss, een unieke cocktail afscheiden.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eL\u0026rsquo;artiste suisse \u003cstrong\u003eRoman Signer\u003c/strong\u003e (\u0026deg;1938) est un v\u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute;ran de la sc\u0026egrave;ne artistique conceptuelle en Europe des ann\u0026eacute;es septante et il reste un personnage unique au sein du paysage artistique\u0026nbsp;: les \u0026eacute;l\u0026eacute;ments de la nature comme la terre, l\u0026rsquo;eau, l\u0026rsquo;air et le feu constituent (ensemble avec leur potentiel de transformation et d\u0026rsquo;enrichissement mutuel) depuis 1972 des notions incontournables dans son \u0026oelig;uvre, qui est compos\u0026eacute;e d\u0026rsquo;un grand nombre \u0026laquo;\u0026nbsp;d\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;v\u0026eacute;nements sculpturaux\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo; uniques, comme des performances et des actions exp\u0026eacute;rimentales dans lesquelles la curiosit\u0026eacute; enfantine, le persiflage pseudo-scientifique et l\u0026rsquo;humour absurde sont \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;origine d\u0026rsquo;un cocktail unique, \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;instar de l\u0026rsquo;\u0026oelig;uvre de Fischli \u0026amp; Weiss, des compatriotes de Signer.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"","place":"St. Gallen","category":{"en":"Lives in","nl":"Leeft in","fr":"Vit à"}},{"country":"","place":"Appenzell","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}}]}