Raphael Hefti. Or Or Or

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6 March 2015

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exhibition view from OR OR OR? at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Courtesy of the artist, Ancient & Modern and RaebervonStenglin
photo : GUNNAR MEIER

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exhibition view from OR OR OR? at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Courtesy of the artist, Ancient & Modern and RaebervonStenglin
photo : GUNNAR MEIER

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OR OR OR? (detail) at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Courtesy of the artist, Ancient & Modern and RaebervonStenglin
photo : GUNNAR MEIER

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exhibition view from OR OR OR? at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Courtesy of the artist, Ancient & Modern and RaebervonStenglin
photo : GUNNAR MEIER

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exhibition view from OR OR OR? at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Courtesy of the artist, Ancient & Modern and RaebervonStenglin
photo : GUNNAR MEIER

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exhibition view from OR OR OR? at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Courtesy of the artist, Ancient & Modern and RaebervonStenglin
photo : GUNNAR MEIER

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exhibition view from OR OR OR? at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Courtesy of the artist, Ancient & Modern and RaebervonStenglin
photo : GUNNAR MEIER

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exhibition view from OR OR OR? at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Courtesy of the artist, Ancient & Modern and RaebervonStenglin
photo : GUNNAR MEIER

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exhibition view from OR OR OR? at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Courtesy of the artist, Ancient & Modern and RaebervonStenglin
photo : GUNNAR MEIER

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OR OR OR? (detail) at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Courtesy of the artist, Ancient & Modern and RaebervonStenglin
photo : GUNNAR MEIER

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OR OR OR? is a site specific project by RAPHAEL HEFTI for the Centre d’Art Contemporain of Geneva. In the same vein as his previous works, material, form and craft are at the core in HEFTI’s project for the Centre d’Art which consists of a series of sculptural tubes in metal, more precisely three hundred one-meter-long poles of steel, aluminium, titanium and copper. For this installation, the Swiss artist transmuted these materials by heating them electrically to various extremely high temperatures, altering the coloration and sometimes also the shape of the matter.

The results of these experimentations – that he also performed during the opening – are shown in a monumental display, which blends abstraction and physicality, and which is optically and aesthetically pleasing while making art-historical references from the modernist grid to performance art.

RAPHAEL HEFTI was born in 1978 in Biel (CH) and lives and works between Zurich and London. He attended the Ecole Cantonale d‘art de Lausanne (ECAL) and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He is the recipient of the 2015 ‘La Mobilière Prize’.

OR OR OR? is on view at Centre d’Art Contemporain of Geneva till April 24, 2015

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