Untitled (black, fish & military), 2008
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wood, sundry objects - 120 x 22.5 x 22.5 cm.
vLoading wall bar / skullingreyred, 2008
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wood, sundry objects - 40 x 11 x 6 cm.
vertical pattern square grey I, 2008
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display cabinet, sundry objects - 102 x 102 x 25 cm.
vLoading wall bar / w. brown bones, 2008
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wood, sundry objects - 29 x 9 x 6.5 cm.
Patterns2. Design, Art and Architecture
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“Hervé Graumann is regarded one of the pioneers of the digital media arts in Switzerland. However, unlike his previous works, Graumann’s “Patterns” series was not created on the computer, but composed of real objects from industrial mass production. He pedantically arranges such trivial things as a steel wool scourer, a clothes peg and a horse sculpture made of plastic to form irritating patterns, which he does not present as installations, but rather in the form of photographs and wallpaper.* Even where, in relation to “Patterns”, Graumann is working with real objects and such traditional art forms as installations or photography, he remains loyal to the computer. His compositions quote the “wallpapers” that are so popular with computer users as background for their desktops. Like other works by this Swiss artist, his patterns develop their wit and their analytical potential through a transfer from one medium to another. In this case, he transforms the computer users’ virtual wallpaper into a real wall covering.”
in Patterns 2. Design, Art and Architecture
Glasner, Barbara; Schmidt, Petra; Schöndeling, Ursula (Eds.)
2008, 335 p. 315 illus. in color., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7643-8644-3
A Birkhäuser book
*note from hg
Hum… I do present those patterns as installations too (!).
However, 3 of the 4 reproductions in the book were specially build for producing a photographic work.
vLoading wall bar / black police I, 2008
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wood, sundry objects - 40.5 x 10 x 5 cm.
excerpt / Hans Rudolf Reust
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(…) Während Gursky die Proliferation des Möglichen simuliert, hat Hervé Graumann, der als Künstler ebenso analog wie mit Computersimulationen arbeitet, kleinste Stillleben aus Billigstmaterialien unüberblickbar, häufig am Boden vervielfacht. Auch seine raumfüllenden Installationen sind letzlich Inszenierungen für die Kamera: Erst Detailansichten aus seinen Patterns zeigen die perspektivische Verjüngung im Realraum und deuten damit an, dass hier nicht am Computer, sondern rein physisch multipliziert wurde. Das Vertrauen in die fotografische Reproduktion hat mit der Perfektionierung der digitalen Mittel nicht weniger gelitten als das Vertrauen in die Wirklichkeit selbst. (…)
Hans Rudolf Reust in Andreas Gursky Architektur / Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt / Hatje Cantz Verlag 2008