From the very beginning, the work of Roman Signer has been concerned with ephemeral events and the release of provoked and existing energies. His materials are natural forces such as water, wind, fire or gravity, which he relates to everyday objects such as stools, buckets, red kayaks, coloured barrels, remote-controlled flying objects or umbrellas and which repeatedly appear as leitmotifs in the artist’s work. The relationships between the visible action and the invisible physical processes lend Signer’s sculp-tures a sensual component.
The exhibition Films centres on Roman Signer’s work with the moving image, with a focus on works created in and around Appenzell since the 1970s. This is Roman Signer’s first solo exhibition in his hometown Appenzell, which spans over three floors of the Kunsthalle and the former brickworks and presents more than 120 films.
On the occasion of the exhibition, a Catalogue raisonné of all the Super 8 films will be published by Verlag Walther König, edited by Peter Zimmermann, Alexandra Signer and Stefanie Gschwend, with texts by Roman Signer, Stephan Kunz (Di-rector of the Bündner Kunstmuseum) and Stefanie Gschwend (Director of the Kunstmuseum / Kunsthalle Appenzell).