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Hannes Schüpbach. Cinema Elements

Filme, Malerei und Performances 1989–2008

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This volume is the first in-depth look at the visually stunning work of Swiss filmmaker and artist Hannes Schüpbach


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By Hannes Schüpbach
2009
Hardback
216 pages, 152 color illustrations and 1 b/w illustration
21 x 29 cm
ISBN 978-3-85881-246-9

Published to accompany Hannes Schüpbach’s (*1965) solo show at the Kunsthalle Basel in 2009, Hannes Schüpbach. Cinema Elements is the first and only in-depth look at the visually stunning work of this important Swiss filmmaker and artist. Schüpbach is best known for his 16mm films, which have been shown at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur; the Centre Pompidou; the Biennale de l’image en mouvement, Geneva; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Tate Modern, London; and the Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Schüpbach’s work as a filmmaker has been strongly influenced by his teachers Werner von Mutzenbecher and André Lehmann, both leading figures in the experimental film movement in Basel in the 1970s and 1980s. Schüpbach’s work also includes large, connected series of paintings whose simple combinations of colors attract the viewers’ physical movement in the space. Hannes Schüpbach. Cinema Elements features many large-scale film stills and images of his paintings, alongside essays by Eleonore Frey, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Andréa Picard, Adam Szymczyk, and Schüpbach himself, that explore the key elements of his work as a filmmaker, such as his use of montage, repetition, and loops.

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«Zur Ausstellung ist ein wunderschöner Katalog erhältlich, der Schüpbachs erstaunliches Werk reflektiert.» Maria Becker, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

«Der auch als Kurator von Künstlerfilmen bekannte Allrounder Schüpbach durchleuchtet seinen Bilderschatz wie beim medizinischen Screening. In wechselnden Rhythmen, mit Unschärfen, Montagen, Überblendungen, Bildwiederholungen und abrupten Schnitten versucht er ein Gesamtbild zu erfassen. Umrisse, Farben und Formen lassen das Antlitz einer schönen Braut in Rot, perlende Wassertropfen und hängende Gardinen erkennen. Poetische Momente bleiben auf wundersame Weise an der Seele hängen.» Feli Schindler, Tages-Anzeiger