Die Treffen des Platzes
A self-taught artist, Reto Pulfer uses painting, writing, drawing, music, and a smattering of salvaged objects to build intuitive and enveloping installations that explore notions of language, botany, landscape, and nomadism. The installation Die Treffen des Platzes (“The Encounters of Place”) was conceived by the artist while he was writing a science-fiction novel, Die Exzentriker (“The Excentrics”). Demarcated by a tent, the perimeter of the installation evokes a public underground space, such as those found in shopping centres in North America— labyrinthine and autonomous root-like spaces. Like a grotto, the work produces its own thermic and hygrometric variation, and invites visitors into an “oblique voyage”, as the artist calls it, that lends itself to meeting and exchange.
Exhibitions
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Allemagne)
from 29 Sep to 04 Oct 2015
Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Genève (Suisse)
from 28 May to 20 Aug 2015
Sic! Raum für Kunst, Elephanthouse, Lucerne (Suisse)
from 18 Jan to 22 Feb 2014