Eric Hattan
Eric Hattan (* 1955 in Wettingen ) is a Swiss concept, video, performance and installation artist.
Work
Eric Hattan goes from concrete things and spaces. He questioned places, architectures and situations of everyday life, by breaking their order and the supposed static of the world makes with playful irony. The conversion and reorganization of clothes, furniture, pedestals or monitors plays in his work a crucial role, it has almost become independent and sets Existing always the unprejudiced observation of. With the video camera Hattan directs our attention to processes and events in urban areas. On walks through cities and their outlying areas he discovers a potential plastic basic shapes that complement their own installative work since the 1990s, comment or penetrate. The phenomenological study of everyday processes and casual movements does not lead him by chance again and again in the vicinity of construction sites. Not yet or no longer in use zones, real estate shortly before their demolition or during a construction freeze, fallow and no places set inadvertently merely sculptural qualities that challenge the artist to other views and insights. Also Hattan usually temporary public space projects bear witness to a desire to give the view of the Familiar a sudden turn and evert exterior views.
Hattan's artistic career ran parallel to his early commitment to a scene of young artists with whom he has realized numerous exhibitions and performances in self-organized project space branch in the 1980s and 1990s.
Eric Hattan lives and works in Basel and Paris.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection )
- 2000/ 01: Concrete cash, Aargau Kunsthaus, Aarau / MAMCO musée d'art moderne et contomporain, Genève
- 2003: Do you know THE? with Werner Reiterer, Kunsthaus Basel-Land Muttenz near Basel; Liquid concrete, Swiss Institute, New York
- 2004: Kunstverein Bremerhaven
- 2005: Echelle, Echec et Reverb, Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary, Strasbourg; Vous êtes chez moi, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat
- 2007: Ephemera, Art Club, Kassel Kunstverein, Kassel; Eric Hattan, Skopia Art Contemporain, Genève
- 2008: S cul door Physique, Hervé Bize Gallery, Nancy
- 2009: Carte blanche, MAC / VAL, Val -de- Marne, Vitry -sur -Seine
- 2010: Hinkel, MAP / The Chain, Dusseldorf
- 2011: snow up in May with Silvia Bächli, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
- 2012: Handmade, Gallery Weingrüll, Karlsruhe
- 2013: What About Sunday? with Silvia Bächli, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
- 2014: Solo exhibition at the FRAC Provence- Alpes- Côte d' Azur, Marseille
Group exhibitions ( selection)
- 2002: in capital letters, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Art Unlimited, Art 33 Basel
- 2004: situational construites, 10 ans d' attitudes, Attitudes, Genève; The way things are, Phoenix Hall, Dortmund
- 2005/ 06: Reprocessing Reality, Château de Nyon and MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
- 2007: In Situ, Le Quartier, Centre d'art Contemporain, Quimper
- 2008: Les Ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d' Art contemporain, Rennes; Le Printemps de septembre, Espace Beaux -Arts in Toulouse
- 2010: Art Public, Art 41, Basel
- 2011: The Beirut Experience I, Beirut Art Center
- 2012: Nouvelles boîtes, Kunstmuseum Luzern!
- 2013: Les Pleiades 30 ans the FRAC, FRAC Midi -Pyrénées in Toulouse
Publications
- Concrete liquid Eric Hattan - Video, ed. from Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau and Lars Müller Publishers, Ed Stephan Kunz, with a text by Kathrin Becker ( dt / frz / Eng. .. ), Baden: Lars Müller, 2000 ISBN 3-907078-29-2.
- Ideeavoir: Eric Hattan, ed. by Sabine Schaschl -Cooper, Muttenz / Basel: Art Basel Country House, 2003 ISBN 3-906539-12-1.
- Eric Hattan: No one is there - Vous êtes chez moi, with a text by Maja Naef and Ralph Ubl and a DVD, Berlin ( dt / frz / Eng. .. ): . Holzwarth Publications, 2006, ISBN 978-3-935567 - 32-9
- Bächli, Eric Hattan: snow up in May, ed. of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg, with texts by Raphaële Jeune, Michael Semff and Harriet Zilch ( Ger. / Eng. ), Cologne: Snoeck, 2011, ISBN 978-3-940953-77-3.