MaDora Frey

Big River Zen

2019

Raymond Graber‘s celestial light sculptures transform the sense of perception, challenging the human eye’s sense for scale and time with a transcendenta...

Nic Hess (*1968 in Zurich, where he also lives and works) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the University of the Arts, Berlin. He got mainly known for his expansive installations and wall collages made of tapes and foils. With these, he deconstructed signs (logos) and symbols from the worlds of business and art history. “Alfa Romeo and Juventus” is a work for which he transferred his earlier ideas of playing with and deconstructing logos and symbols to a light box. We see and recognize several elements, depending on our knowledge of the world of the economic brands as well as of other fields. For instance, the panther to the left side of the piece is probably rather a fantasy figure and does not represent anything but itself (and power and possible violence). Just to the right of this panther we see an image of the famous Swiss mountain Matterhorn. However, since it has been turned 90° to the left, it forms a diamond together with the partly shown “car freshner tree”. Again, a little bit to the right we see a cowboy boot, that can be considered a symbol for the tough wild West in the US. This boot is connected with what seems to be an image of the Chrysler Building’s top, turned 90° to the right. However, if we look closer, we recognize that Hess was tricking us: what seems to be the Chrysler Building in fact is a repetitive image of an airplane cockpit, seen from above. While the nose of the smallest airplane is touching the tip of the pennant of the Italian soccer...

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