Rémy Zaugg
Rémy Zaugg ( born January 11, 1943 in Courgenay, Jura, Switzerland, † 23 August, 2005 Arlesheim ) was a Swiss painter and was known mainly as a concept artist.
Life
Rémy Zaugg - a descendant of Mennonite - attended after high school in Porrentruy the Basel arts school. In the years 1970 and 1971 he was awarded the Federal Art Scholarship. Zaugg lived and worked in Basel, Switzerland and the French Pfastatt in Mulhouse.
Zaugg employed in his Puritan works with the perception that examine the vision in its various facets and enable an expansion of consciousness. He created paintings, works on paper, sculptures in public space, urban analysis and architectural designs. His theoretical controversy, in particular the book The Art Museum, which I dream to me. Or the site of the work and the people (1987 ) are standard texts for art connoisseurs, art historians and artists. Time life Zaugg has everything held its environment represents called into question, it was the talk of the " philosopher - artist." In 1990 he received the Prize of the City of Basel.
Interesting and internationally respected was his collaboration with the architects Herzog & de Meuron, with whom he around 15 projects realized in recent years, including an extension of the Aargau Kunsthaus in Aarau. The building, designed by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron Studio Rémy Zaugg in Mulhouse- Pfastatt was presented at H & tHe as part of the award of the Pritzker Prize in 2001.
About his artistic career, he was a renowned curator and has organized, for example, the comprehensive Alberto Giacometti retrospective in Paris in 1991. In 1995, he has made a contribution in art revue HOLE No. IX.