miart 2019 | Milan
Booth C49 | Roman Signer, Aldo Runfola

in cooperation with Galleria Michela Rizzo
Exhibition:
April 5 – April 7, 2019 

We are pleased to announce Häusler Contemporary’s first participation in «miart». In collaboration with Galleria Michela Rizzo, we put Swiss artist Roman Signer in dialogue with the Italian artist Aldo Runfola in the «Established Masters» section of the 24th Milan art fair edition.

Roman Signer (* 1938, Appenzell, CH, lives in St.Gallen, Switzerland) is one of Switzerland's most renowned contemporary artists. His ephemeral actions called «time sculptures» which can sometimes be explosive and risky, he has been contributing significantly to the renewal of the notion of «sculpture» since the 1970s. Selected sculptures and photographs from the early days of his career to today and the rare Super 8 films from 1975 to 1989 illustrate in our presentation at miart how Signer has established movement, change and transience as an integral part of sculpture.


One generation younger, Aldo Runfola (* 1950, Palermo, IT, lives in Berlin, DE) is known for his cross-genre approach in which philosophical questions about the conception of the world, of space and time play an important role. In dialogue with Signer's work, together with Michela Rizzo, we present his «Frieze Project», 2014: Aiming to create an exhibition outside of exhibition spaces and in relation to Gilles Deleuzes' concept of «event», Runfola booked an advertisement page in one Frieze issue per year from 2010 to 2014 in order to reproduce there one of his works without any comment.

The juxtaposition of the two very different artists Roman Signer and Aldo Runfola unfolds a far-reaching dialogue within which conventional ideas about the place and time of art are renegotiated and the audience gets a deeper insight into the work of these two «established masters».

Deborah Keller