CONEY ISLAND
Yves Scherer
Curated by Samuel Leuenberger
6 Apr – 21 May 2014
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Opening: 5 April 2014, 5 – 8.30 pm
Yves Scherer's practice revolves around the various forms that communication can be channeled through. By means of texts, designs, cyber and internet tactics, the way technology at large influences our everyday life, the artist explores not merely the meaning of the message itself but moreover how this message can be captured and thus displayed in alternate settings. What container carries which image or which image in turn gets projected or inscribed onto what surface, Scherer is vividly changing the interface of all his surfaces, their (sur)face becomes content and thus the display-strategy for each new environment. Film works, sound-installations, objects which are haphazardly set against theatrical settings shift from “virtual” interiors, the insides of PCs, their housings to a real encounter. Large perspex boxes that normally serve to protect an artwork become the protagonist in Scherer's work, the perspex as transparent housing for nothing but volume, or rather the idea of the potential. Sometimes these boxes are scratched, written or sprayed on, they can serve as screen for a recorded Skype conversation that is projected against them or one the other hand hold an artwork inside them, such a fake piece of grass, old carpets, et al, heralded (or poked fun at?), as another form of new painting. These large boxes of perspex can hang, stand or lean against the wall and become sort of mirrors for the audience; they leave enough space for interpretation and simultaneously they allude to the desire that Scherer insists of capturing, one of transcendental omnipresence if one permits to mix philosophical ideas with the mundane and virtual “all-knowing” web content. This strategy is repeated in other works by him such an empty computer tower, with its side open, but stuffed with a winter's down-jacket. The computer tower can also become a source of light, hanging from the ceiling, a “tattoo” like form is stenciled out through the metal siding, the light emits from there. A nice parable to the knowledge and importance of this construct which processes and channels all the information we come across in the web, our source of information today.
For this exhibition, Yves Scherer has taken the former garages outside at SALTS, closed them almost entirely and created a self-sufficient story-cycle within this now window-less cubicles. The two rooms are an attempt to bring the virtual, the digital information he collected from the net, the hypothetical and the obsessive elements from the world of glamour, stars, communication and longing into the physical space, a sort of three dimensional rendition of a two dimensional sourcing process, a personal adaption of what it could feel like if we were to find ourselves inside a computer filled with various thoughts, feelings and physically felt confrontations. Its a long shot from the vision of the hollywood film Tron, the 1982 film where the protagonist gets caught inside a video-game and ends up having to fight for his life but in fact, if he dies in the game he dies in real life. Here we find ourselves in less violent and more surreal setting, two rooms, one dominated by white day like setting, the other by a dark, more night setting tell the story of a young woman who is trying to find herself. A set of perspex boxes, inscribed with a poem, a small Manga Style drawing, a portrait, is taped to the wall, the recorded sound of a ventilator hissing, emits from a loudspeaker sitting on the floor – the other room, adjacent emits an even louder sound, the room is insulated, hardly lit - a woman is standing in the space, with her back turned the entrance, the viewer. The hyperreal encounter makes these living quarters bizarrely a sad place, a gritty room, a dream like, isolated space which seems to be missing some information, which is lacking some details, a rendering not complete. Welcome to Coney Island.
Yves Scherer - List of works
Outside
Alienware, 2014
Bricks, plaster
230 x 260 cm
Room I
More than distance between us, 2014
Perspex, fake flowers, marker pen, smear
Diptych 210 x 140 x 5 cm (each)
Tatami, 2014
Inkjet print on canvas
4 x 170 x 85 cm
Premises, 2014
Pencil, inkjet print on paper, tape
29.7 x 21 cm
Room II
Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate
at Heathrow Airport, 2014
Steamed beech, necklace
165 x 48 x 35 cm
Coolermaster Silencio III, 2014
Industrial fan, foam
Dimensions variable
Photography: courtesy Gunnar Meier
CONEY ISLAND
Yves Scherer
01–72
Daniel Gustav Cramer
ALL INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Kasper Sonne
ASSOCIATIONS NEW
Max Brand, Vittorio Brodmann, Beni Bischof, Claudia Comte, Stéphane Dafflon, Armen Eloyan, Athene Galiciadis, Mathis Gasser, Charlotte Herzig, Thomas Jeppe, Jan Kiefer , Victor Korol , John Monteith , Nicolas Party, David Peschka, Guillaume Pilet, Nicholas Pittmann, Ivan Seal, Francisco Sierra, Loredana Sperini, Tobias Spichtig, Henning Strassburger, Stefan Sulzer, Tyra Tingleff
ASSOCIATIONS NEW
Max Brand, Vittorio Brodmann, Beni Bischof, Claudia Comte, Stéphane Dafflon, Armen Eloyan, Athene Galiciadis, Mathis Gasser, Charlotte Herzig, Thomas Jeppe, Jan Kiefer , Victor Korol , John Monteith , Nicolas Party, David Peschka, Guillaume Pilet, Nicholas Pittmann, Ivan Seal, Francisco Sierra, Loredana Sperini, Tobias Spichtig, Henning Strassburger, Stefan Sulzer, Tyra Tingleff
BRANDS – CONCEPT/AFFECT/MODULARITY
Kari Altmann, Florian Auer, David Jablonowski, Pierre Lumineau, Metahaven, Pamela Rosenkranz, Anne de Vries
CLOSER SCRUB
Tyra Tingleff
CONCERT – COMING HOME
CONCERT – ROCK THE SLAUGTHERHOUSE
Minimetal, Me and the Minimes and Teppichmode
CONEY ISLAND
Yves Scherer
DI STIJLLED
Tobias Spichtig
DI STIJLLED
Tobias Spichtig
DI STIJLLED
Tobias Spichtig
EL BUEN VECINO
Sol Calero
GREEN GROWTH
Katja Novitskova
L’AGE D’OR
Pauline Beaudemont
MATTHEW SMITH & YONATAN VINITSKY
MUTANT
Peles Empire
NEUE WELT, VIEW OVER AUTOCENTER
OUTSIDERS
Pedro Wirz
OUTSIDERS
Pedro Wirz
LET'S PLAY
Rusconi & Sara Vidas
PICTURE THIS
Fredrik Værslev
QUITE BLACK ON THE WESTERN FRONT BUT THE SUN IS STILL AT THE HORIZON AND WORRIES ABOUT THE FOAM
MDFA Union: Beni Bischof, Michael Bodenmann, Georg Gatsas, Barbara Signer
SHOW-OFF
Awst&Walther
STEPPING STONE
Frank Altmann, Awst & Walther, Nina Beier, Eva Berendes, Stefan Burger, Martin Soto Climent, Adam Thompson
STRÖME
Gina Folly & Mandla Reuter
THE HOLE
Karsten Födinger
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
La Lutte Continue, 2000
read the room/you've got to
Etel Adnan, Kolt Beringer, Harry Burke, Cynthia Cruz, Olivia Dunbar, Andrew Durbin, Ida Ekblad, Heike-Karin Föll, Lauren Gault, Harmony Holiday, Karl Holmqvist, Romain Juan, Joan Naviyuk Kane, John Kelsey, Paul Kneale, Sophie Jung, Sophia Le Fraga, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Garrett Nelson, Collier Nogues, Sophie Nys, Fatuma Osman, Vanessa Place, Lauren Printy Currie, Megan Rooney, Andrew Seguin, Donna Stonecipher, Sue Tompkins, Martina-Sofie Wildberger, Hannah Woo, Lynn Xu
YOUR PALINDROME, HER ABECEDARIUM
THERMAL WELDING
Raphael Hefti
THERMAL WELDING
Raphael Hefti
TO ZANZIBAR FROM ACAPULCO
Claudia Comte & Guillaume Pilet
TO ZANZIBAR FROM ACAPULCO
Claudia Comte & Guillaume Pilet
UNRELIABLE NARRATORS (PART FOR JEREMIAH)
Adina Popescu
WHERE CUCKOOS NEST IN AUTUMN
Marc Bauer, Armen Eloyan, Sara Masüger
WHERE CUCKOOS NEST IN AUTUMN
Marc Bauer, Armen Eloyan, Sara Masüger
COURTESY OF SALTS
Pedro Wirz
"CRUISING - Sylvie Fleury*
DO YOU FEEL THIS SPIRIT OF ETERNITY?
TIC-TAC. TIC-TAC.
I AM FEELING SO HAPPY.
IF I HAD AN UZI, I WOULD EMPTY A MAGAZINE IN THE SKY.
Gilles Furtwängler
FUJI COLOUR GARDEN
Hagar Schmidhalter
Irmão dos homens todos
Mauro Cerqueira and Pedro Wirz
MY GRAVITY SLPPED AWAY Flaka Haliti
MY HISTORY OF FLOW
Lena Henke
OWEN PIPER AND LILI REYNAUD-DEWAR ON HOW TO TALK DIRTY AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
PANORAMA
Nicolas Party
PEACE, LOVE AND HARMONY
Ditte Gantriis
Tending to Motion, with Nik Emch, Jan Kiefer, Sara Vidas
PHILLIP, LUKAS & ISIDORA
Augustas Serapinas
POST COURRIER ART A Presentation organised between HEAD – Genève, Haute École d‘Art et de Design und die Basisklasse Bildende Kunst / Kunsthochschule Kassel.
THE NIGHT HOLDS TERROR
Emanuel Röhss
WORKS OFF PAPER
With: Penny Goring, Lorraine O’Grady, Lady Pink, Arleen Schloss, Martine Syms
Curated by Harry Burke for The Printed Room
WLGTDWI - A PERFORMANCE EVENING
Paul Kneale and Megan Rooney
Double Take, 2015
2008 Toyota Yaris, audio recording, video projection
Dimensions variable
CLUB UNIVERS with
Angèle Siegenthaler, Katharina Kemmerling, Gregory Stäuble, Linda Wunderlin, Dario Zeo, Sebastien Rück, Davide Wouda, Iris Brodbeck, Manuela Cossalter, Laura Mietrup, Aline Stalder, Chris Handberg, Cyril Hübscher, Njomza Sadikaj, Simone Steinegger, Aysa Stettler, Nadine Cueni, Markus Aebersold, Anna Diehl, Ambra Viviani and Manuel Koechli
WHO ARE YOU?
Olivier Castel, Dorota Gawęda and Eglé Kulbokaité, Selina Grueter and Michèle Graf, Than Hussein Clark, Martin Soto Climent.
Michèle Graf, Than Hussein Clark, Martin Soto Climent.*
HONEYBAKED - Jan Kiefer
ZIGZAG INCISIONS with Armando Andrade Tudela, Raven Chacon, Roberto Evangelista, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Alfredo Hubard, Seulgi Lee, Pierre Leguillon, Felipe Mujica, Edit Oderbolz, Blinky Palermo, Tania Pérez Córdova & Francesco Pedraglio, Falke Pisano, Julia Rometti and Jorge Satorre
POCKET - Hanne Lippard. Curated by Harry Burke for The Printed Room
THE LITTLE APOCRYPHA - Emily Mae Smith & Adam Henry
Ho King Man
Stiff Cotton Brain Stone
Installation view, SALTS, 2017
Photo: Gunnar Meier
THE VISITORS - Caroline Mesquita
A FRESH BURN LIKE A DOUBLE TREE - Mélodie Mousset
SOULLESS SKIN - Sarah Margnetti starring Kiki Kogelnik
I Am Our Common Pronoun - Nanna Abell, Sigurđur Ámundason, Josefin Jussi Andersson, Klara Ström &
Hannah Wiker Wikström, Zoe Barcza, Mira Eklund, Artor Jesus Inkerö, Yassine Khaled, Helene Nymann, Eirik Sæther, Vidha Saumya
Infinity has its limits - Kasia Fudakowski, Maria Loboda, Zoe Paul
The New Body - Astrit Ismaili
THE GOURD & THE FISH - Rodrigo Hernández
Bhanu Kapil & Sharon Carlisle
"Mud Female Buddha Equinox Ritual", 2014
Sharon came every morning to sift the mud/build the Buddha . . . the mud female Buddha herself erased one day abruptly. The space was thought of as a “balcony” (after Genet’s Le Balcon). The space of a life, a site of incarnation. Incarnate, fleeting.
Image courtesy the artists
ADRENARCHY - Jumana Manna
HUNTER OF WORLDS, with Nina Canell, Rochelle Feinstein, Louise Lawler, Marie Matusz
Josep Maynou, Alan Schmalz
John Smith, Niels Trannois
HUNTER OF WORLDS, with Nina Canell, Rochelle Feinstein, Louise Lawler, Marie Matusz
Josep Maynou, Alan Schmalz
John Smith, Niels Trannois
Anna Diehl - RESILIENCE
Charles Benjamin - NOT OLD NOT NEW
Marguerite Humeau and Julian Charrière - TWIN EARTH
BODYSPLITS - Nina Beier, Morgan Courtois, Jesse Darling, Cathy Josefowitz, Judith Kakon, Oliver Laric, Kris Lemsalu, Julie Monot, Pakui Hardware, Puppies Puppies, Mia Sanchez, Dorian Sari, Diamond Stingily
Tobias Spichtig - FRIDGES AND MIND AGAIN
ON FIRE – VULNERABLE FOOTAGE with Melanie Bonajo, Samira Elagoz, Juliana Huxtable, Carolyn Lazard, Leigh Ledare, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Tobias Madison, Markus & Markus, Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Christoph Schlingensief, Martine Syms, Johannes Willi, Sasha Wortzel with Morgan Bassichis
Charles Benjamin
CROCODILE TEARS
ARMEN ELOYAN
MEGAN ROONEY
Camp Solong
Game of Goose
Country SALTS: THIS MORNING, IN THE SWEET TORPOR OF THE GREAT FOREST, IS LIKE EVERY MORNING IN THE WORLD
Nicolas Party
Nicolas Party
*Lena Henke - Boobs (female fatigue series), 2015
Gina Folly
side 2
Vanessa Safavi
Rodrigo Hernández
Emanuel Röhss
Pauline Beaudemont
Claudia Comte
Petrit Halilaj & Alvaro Urbano
Kasper Sonne
Raphael Hefti
Katja Novitskova
Pedro Wirz
Sol Calero
Sol Calero
Tobias Spichtig
Pedro Wirz
Daniel Gustav Cramer
Tyra Tingleff
Tyra Tingleff
UTTER BLISS
Stefan Sulzer
UTTER BLISS
Stefan Sulzer
GLASSWORKS REVERSED
Tobias Spichtig
The Ethicas of Pirating
Adina Popescu