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Hannes Schüpbach

Instants

Documentaire exp. | 16mm | couleur | 16:0 | Suisse | 2012

Les instants arrivent, ils se manifestent pour nous et à travers nous. Comme la jeune fille qui atterrit dans l’image en déesse du vent et dont les mouvements se figent en attitudes, en une suite d’images arrêtées. Entre les instants, des relations, évidentes ou imaginées, se créent. Une main écrit phrase après phrase dans un carnet, s’interrompt, recommence ; elle marque ainsi une boucle et un retour en arrière. Ce qui a été ressenti prend alors forme. Les petits heurts, les frictions et les pauses dans la succession des images composent ce corps d’instants qui produit un langage. – H. S. (Traduction : Isabelle Ribadeau Dumas)

Hannes Schüpbach was born in Winterthur (Switzerland) in 1965. He is a visual artist and writer. Since 1999 Schüpbach has completed ten silent films. However, his artistic practice with elements of the cinematographic dates back to 1990, with spatial installations and serial paintings that can be experienced through movement. In the exhibition Stills and Movies at Kunsthalle Basel, 2009, a number of his large, connected series of paintings were shown for the first time. The exhibition also highlighted the conceptual interconnections between installations, performances, and films by Schüpbach; they all entice movement and unfold through memory. Cat.: Hannes Schüpbach: Cinema Elements, Films, Paintings, and Performances 1989–2008, Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2009, distributed in North America by Chicago University Press. His films have been presented at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, Tate Modern, London (2009); CCCB Barcelona, Kunstmuseum Bern (2011); Centre Pompidou, Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images, London, Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2012); Arsenal, Berlin, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (“Conversations at the Edge”), Toronto International Film Festival, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013); International Film Festival Rotterdam, Literaturhaus Zürich (2014).