Hannes Schüpbach is a Swiss filmmaker and painter, born in
Winterthur
, neighboring_municipalities = Brütten, Dinhard, Elsau, Hettlingen, Illnau-Effretikon, Kyburg, Lindau, Neftenbach, Oberembrach, Pfungen, Rickenbach, Schlatt, Seuzach, Wiesendangen, Zell
, twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austria), La ...
,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
in 1965.
Education
Schüpbach studied
visual art
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at the academies of art and design in
Zurich (
Hochschule für Gestaltung Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG, lit. "college for design") denotes certain design or art schools in Germany, and may refer to:
* Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm (Ulm School of Design), founded in 1953 and closed in 1968
* Kunsthochschule Berlin-We ...
) and in
Basel
, french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese
, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...
(
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst) from 1988 to 1991. In 1992, he dedicated six months to
cinema and
performance studies at
New York University
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In 1832, the ...
. During his education two figures were very important for their influence on the artist's cinematic language:
Werner von Mutzenbecher and
André Lehmann. They were his professors and both engaged in experimental film movement in Basel in the 1970s and 1980s.
Career
In 1999 Schüpbach established "Film direkt", a monthly series of artists' films at
Filmpodium Zurich, where some publications on the art film were also issued. Hannes Schüpbach has become internationally known with his
16mm film
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s, which he has presented in some of the most important European art institutions:
Centre Pompidou,
Paris
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;
Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement,
Geneva
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;
Museum Reina Sofia,
Madrid
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;
Tate Modern
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,
London
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.
From the first years of his artistic career, Schüpbach also worked as
painter
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, creating "large, connected series of paintings". During his first solo exhibition, "Stills and Movies" at
Kunsthalle Basel in 2009, a combination of his paintings and films was presented. The Kunsthalle Basel exhibition website states "both media are inseparably connected in his approach to his work. The films and the paintings are two idioms that Schüpbach adopts to articulate the major themes of his artistic work: the representation of time and movement and the complex processes of experiencing and remembering".
References
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''Kunsthalle Basel: Still and Movies''
''Art Display Blog''
# ''Hannes Schupbach, Cinema Elements'', Zurich, 2009 -
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20th-century Swiss painters
Swiss male painters
21st-century Swiss painters
21st-century Swiss male artists
Living people
1965 births
People from Winterthur
Swiss performance artists
Swiss contemporary artists
20th-century Swiss male artists