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5/11/2013

David Berweger

Hauser Gallery, Zurich

For his artistic creations, David Berweger draws on the creative interplay between real and illusionist space. His works revolve around questioning the perception of surfaces and are the expression of a constant search for depth in the surface. In ever new experimental arrangements, the artist explores the creation of a sense of depth and sculpture in only two dimensions. His studio is like a scientific laboratory in which he assesses materials like ash, wood, plaster or paper for their essential properties, so that he can make full use of their varied potential within the artistic process. A distinctive feature of Berweger’s work is the way he deals with a geometric form vocabulary, whose precision and strictness is repeatedly broken by deliberate interventions. For example, he experiments with colour pigments on floor surfaces, whereby what are initially geometric forms are blurred by the action of water and dissolve away. In his work hommage to the snowball (2012), he transfers the volatile base material into a temporarily solid form in an expressive way: A cuboid made of 1600 litres of ash initially appears like a wall of concrete, before it crumbles under its own weight. By interweaving solidly joined, clearly contoured forms and their change into unstable, amorphous entities, two opposites overlap, which are reminiscent of artistic paragons: on the one hand, of Minimal art with its clear, sober formal vocabulary, and on the other, of arte povera with its simple, often ephemeral materials. Many of the artist’s works have the potential for change; they are not solidly fixed works, but rather gestures that unfold in space and time.
Text: Nicole Rampa

David Berweger, born in 1982 in Rheinau/Zurich, lives and works in Basel. From 1999 to 2003 he studied at the Punkt G College of Design in Zurich, where he graduated in Illustration. In 2010, he initiated the art project Birswanger Contemporary in Schaffhausen as part of an artists’ collective. He received a grant from the Ausserrhodischen Kulturstiftung cultural foundation in 2010 + 2013 and funding from the city and the canton of Schaffhausen 2010. He was awarded the studio in Paris for 2014 by the iaab, the International Exchange and Studio Programme Basel. His works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Aargauer Kunsthaus (Caravan 3/2013), Lokal-int Biel, Ausstellungsraum Klingental Basel, Schaukasten Herisau, Premio Internazionale Arte Laguna Venedig, Tom Bola Zürich, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen.

Opening Tuesday 5 November 2013 18 - 21, the artist will be present.

Hause Gallery
Pflanzschulstrasse 17, Zurich
Opening hours: Wednesday - Friday 14 - 18 and Saturday 13 - 16
Free entrance

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