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KARIN HUEBER is a Swiss artist who recently presented her first major institutional solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Baselland where she dealt with the architecture of the ground floor of the Kunsthaus and developed a series of sculptures that responded to the topic of fast movement.

The title of the show Traceur/Traceuse is the name given to a practitioner of the sport called parkour born in the Parisian banlieues in the late 1980s and which consists of using the urban surroundings as a playground through which the Traceur can move fluidly, using his body to overcome obstacles and barriers. For KARIN HUEBER, the urban practice that is parkour is above all a question of forms – forms of rest, forms of movement – she extended throughout the space.  

The exhibition comprises two sculptures in metal and cords as well as six large wooden scultpures (‘Ostacles‘) painted in soft shades or coated in quartz sand, that appear according to the press release ‘to be stand-ins for human movements and gestures in the spaces of the Kunsthaus: they lean gently on walls, nestle against or lean on posts or lift themselves up confidently from the ground. The artist fixes the large format, ramp-like objects to the given space with blue tension belts. Even here, at this point in the space, the sculptures stand or lie, and arrange themselves in a circuit of the space. Their forms, which emerge from the artist’s freehand drawings, remind one of past or even possible leaps in the space’.

With parkour as the backdrop, KARIN HUEBER‘s work invites the public to a fresh reading of abstract sculpture as well as of the complex dynamics that evolve between forms, structures and people.

http://www.karinhueber.com/

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