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Indepth Arts News:
"Hannah Villiger: Photographic Works"
2001-08-16 until 2001-11-11
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel, ,
CH
Hannah Villiger: Opening Wednesday, August 15, 7.30 pm
Four years after the untimely death of Hannah Villiger, the
Kunsthalle Basel will show approximately 60 of her
photographic works in an exhibition mounted by Eric Hattan,
administrator of the artists estate. Hannah Villiger was a
sculptor of images; her works are sculptures and her medium
was photography. In the 1970s she produced black-and-white
and colour photographs, usually in series, that explored the
theme of movement in space: palm leaves in flames,
sprinklers, streaks of condensation, boccia balls in flight.
These early images have a marked dynamism and thrive on
the fact that they spontaneously capture events directly.
In the early 1980s, the artist began using a Polaroid camera
to explore her own body. In a solitary and unending dialogue
with herself, she took photographs from so close up that the
Pola rushed straight at my body. Parallel to the images of
her body, she also took photographs of courtyard and roof-top
landscapes and the views from her apartments in Basle and
Paris. Hannah Villiger treated the city much as she treated
her own body: here, a gaze directed at herself, there, a gaze
directed away from herself. This concentration on the
particular and a simultaneous formal variation are what make
Hannah Villiger one of the most outstanding artists of her
generation and substantiate her unique artistic reputation
both nationally and internationally.
A catalogue raisonné of Hannah Villigers works is published
by Scalo Verlag Zürich on the occasion of the exhibition. The
328-page bi-lingual (English/German) publication is edited by
Jolanda Bucher / Eric Hattan and contains approximately 150
colour and black-and-white reproductions, plus a full
catalogue of 480 works with colour illustrations. SFr. 98.- in
book shops / SFr. 68.- at the Kunsthalle during the exhibition
period.
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