Curt Walter

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Curt Walter
Curt Walter
Portfolio
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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"Manca qualcosa! Dove siete"
Installation
Isola Bella, Hotel Elvezia, Room 6
Lago Maggiore, Italy
2 July – 30 September 2010
An installation of 66 plaster casts of faces and
hands on thin metal poles, swaying like reeds in the
wind in a black room of Hotel Elvezia on the Isola
Bella of Lake Maggiore. On the black walls, the
titles of love songs in four languages are inscribed
in chalk. The floor is covered with ash. The casts
capture glimpses of life. They represent gestures
and emotions - a dialog between hands and faces;
a society of men and women thinking and reflecting,
eating and drinking, brushing their teeth, whistling,
squinting, thumb-sucking, smoking, cleaning their
noses, applying lipstick and make-up, rubbing their
eyes, kissing feet, with a fist in their face, posing,
grimacing, taking photographs, saying hello, even
wearing glasses.
The title pertains to the installation as a whole: What
is there highlights what is not there. The casts are
only a skin, a visible aura - the models themselves
are not present. The work of the casting consists in
their nothingness. What is there, serves as material.
What is not, serves as work. The texts of the love
songs are there on the wall, but the music itself is
absent - the melodies are missing. The handwritten
lines in chalk represent the motto "Love songs as
wallpaper". Their scope is to draw out of the former
hotel room, in which untold numbers of lovers have
stayed, a soupçon of flirtatiousness, seduction and
love: Fiction loves phantoms, or rather: phantoms
love fiction.
Sponsored by
- Repubblica e Cantone Ticino, Swisslos
- Lo Spirito del Lago
http://www.spirito-del-lago.de
Caption:
Top: Detail of the Installation "Manca qualcosa! dove siete", Isola Bella, Italy
Below: Detail of the Installation "Manca qualcosa! dove siete", Isola Bella, Italy
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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"Torrid Landscape"
Video - Installation
13th Festival di cultura e musica jazz | Fuego!
Chiasso Cultura, Switzerland
2010
"Torrid Landscape"
Video - An installation for the 13th Festival of Culture
and Jazz Music | Fuego! in Chiasso, Switzerland.
The film consists of a variety of clips from a roadtrip
made in 2006, from Pagosa Springs, Colorado,
through Durengo (US-160 W, US-550 S), Farmington
(US-64 W), Shiprock (US-491 S), Gallop, Flagstaff
(I-40 W und I-17 S, Arizona), Phoenix, Gila Bend 10,
Yuma (I-8 E), El centro, Manzanita CA-94 W, Tecate
(3) to Ensenada, Mexico.
The film was made directly from the car during the
journey with a Sony DV Handycam 3ccd.
The context of the film is the subject of global
warming, based on the theme "The Desert is
Approaching".
http://www.youtube.com/curtwalter
torrid_landscape_trailer-desktop.m4v
Cultural support: Chiasso Cultural Council
Caption:
Top: Still from the film clip Torrid landscape
Below: Still from the film clip Torrid landscape, Orange
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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"in between"
Installation
MEWO, Kunsthalle Memmingen, Germany
8 November 2009 – 9 May 2010
Project "in between", MEWO, Kunsthalle
Memmingen, Germany
"in between" in the group show: "Everybody, Tanz
with dem Totentanz"
"in between" is an installation of 2253 plaster casts
of the faces of as many different people from around
the world. Two eating bowls from the Bookenwald
Concentration Camp Memorial are featured at the
centre.
For further information and a trailer, plase visit the
following links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu_Gx6xUkD8
Performance art by Jsabella Gnos during the private
view.
http://www.pilatescenter.ch/pilatescenter/
Tanzfotogalerie.html
Cultural support: Repubblica e Cantone Ticino,
Swisslos
http://www4.ti.ch/decs/sa/uafls/ufficio/
Caption:
Top: Detail of the Installation "in between", MEWO, Memmingen, Germany
Below: Detail of the Installation "Performance with Jsabella Gnos"
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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"Lux Pons"
Light Installation
Bi6 | Biennale dell’immagine Chiasso
Chiasso Cultura, Switzerland
21 September - 23 November 2008
Project "Lux Pons" with Benno Meuwly | 49
Projections | 3 towers | 2 Sound Installations
No Man›s Land | Entrance: The Swiss Border with
Italy at Chiasso – Ponte Chiasso Strada
Bi6 | Biennale dell’immagine Chiasso.
"Lux Pons" was an art project consisting of
about 40 light projections during the VI. Biennale
dell›Immagine in Chiasso based on the theme
"Geographies of the Invisible".
49 floodlights, positioned in the neutral zone, or "noman›s land", between Switzerland and Italy, illumined
the fronts of houses and niches, the ground, trees
and fields, on both sides of the border, creating an
impression of virtual unification over the divided
territory.
Italian and Swiss installations were set up in the
neutral zone, between the two real national borders,
resulting in a re-definition of the free, yet forbidden,
zone of the no-man›s land. There were enclosures,
fences and perimeters in and out of which the
projections beamed. The light emanating from the
projections and their visual impact on the common
playing field of the otherwise latent border-zone, was
designed to prompt the question: "Is enclosure not
equally also marginalisation?"
The projected images or slides were beamed out of
the inside of the houses of people who actually live
and/or work on the border. An intimate environment
is an important factor in many people›s lives and
an essential part of their wellbeing. Objects and
mementos personalise an appartment, recalling
moments of happiness and contentment. To make
these very personal elements (artifacts) of one›s
life story public and to project them onto facades,
is a testimony to openness and trust in others. The
hidden Cupid in the rooms reflects his image on
the facades, without exposing their inhabitants. The
pictures are arranged pieces, photographs, beloved
accessories, all telling 1000 stories. They shine out,
as little "Lights" out of the hearts of the appartments
shining out into the open space; a kaleidoscope of
memories, unforgettable sights and dreams, revealed
on the walls as pictures of an invisible world.
Caption:
Top: Detail of the Installation "Lux Pons", B6, Chiasso, Switzerland
Center: Detail of the Installation "Lux Pons" with projection tower
Below: Detail of the Installation "Lux Pons"
Cultural support: Chiasso cultura
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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"in...boscamento"
Lichtinstallationen
MonteArte, Monte, TI, Switzerland
14 September - 14 October 2007
"in...boscamento" was an art project with 43
illuminations set on various squares and streets in the
small hill-town of Monte, in the Valle Muggio, Ticino.
The project was realised by artists Benno Meuwly
and Curt Walter in collaboration with the "MonteArte"
artists association. It consisted of various slidepictures projected onto facades, walls, the ground,
niches and passageways around the village. The
pictures rose out of the forest surrounding the village,
gowing ever nearer to it. The goal, was to create the
sensation of the forest over-growing into the village.
By means of light-projections, the spacial structure of
the village was virutally disintegrated. Houses, areas,
structures and facades were alientated from their
normal use as their usual appearance diappeared.
Meanwhile, the projections created new, surprising
and even irritating perspectives of the passageways,
facades and structures of the village, as they faded
into the scenery of the magical forest. The work was
designed to demonstrate how vulnerable human
perception is to manipulation and conditioning, whilst
at the same time, highlighting a very actual problem.
A direct physical experience of the atmosphere of the
work in situ was fundamental to a full appreciation of
the project.
http://montearte.blogspot.com/
http://www.montearte.ch
Films: DVD: http://www.lulu.com/content/2656878
in_boscamento_artworks.mov
Cultural support: Comune, Castel san Pietro |
Repubblica e Cantone Ticino, Swisslos | Ernst
Göhner Stiftung, Zug | Ente touristico Mendrisiotto
| Casino, Mendrisio | Raiffeisen, Castel san Petro |
Brinus SA, Balerna | Fondazione dell´esposizione
nazionale svizzera 1939 | Regione Valle di Muggio
| Chicco d’Oro, Balerna | Restaurante, Conca
Bella, Vacallo | Borgovecchio, Balerna | Progetto
Stampa, Chiasso | Init Seven, Zürich for Webhosting,
MonteArte | Banca popolare di Sondrio, Chiasso
Caption:
Top: Detail of the Installation "in...boscamento", Church Square, MonteArte, Monte
Center: Detail of the Installation "in...boscamento" with tower
Below: Detail of the Installation "in...boscamento" with church
Book: IN...BOSCAMENTO
ISBN 978-88-7967-288-7
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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"Generosa Enterprise"
Exhibition, Interaktive Installation
ETH, Platzspitz, Zürich
22 April – 8 May 2005
Exhibition: "Worlds of Science" celebrating the 150th
Anniversary of ETH Zürich, 22.April - 8 May 2005 at
Platzspitz Zürich.
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of ETH "Welcome
Tomorrow", the Monte Generoso was brought to
Platzspitz-Park. Visitors were invited to take part
in an interactive game developed by Curt Walter
and the ETH-Zürich Global Information Systems
Group. Combining art, science and the latest ITTechnologies, the game allowed players to plunge
into the atmosphere of Monte Generoso. Scientific
research data, films, photographs, music, art, and
texts about the air, earth, water and fauna of the
Monte Generoso in German and Italian were stored
in a database. Visitors were encouraged to give free
flight to their creativity as they drew on this digital
information to develop their own personal impression
of the mountain on a blank piece of paper
Sponsored by ETH Zürich
Exhibited again on 22 July 2006: Visione sul Monte,
MonteArte, Monte (TI)
http://www.generosa.ethz.ch
http://www.globis.ethz.ch/research/paper/
applications/generosa
http://www.artsite.ch
http://www.curtwalter.ch
Cultural support:
- ETH Zürich
- Sitemapping, BAK
Caption:
Top: Detail of the Installation "Generosa Enterprise", Visitors to the installation
Center: Detail of the Installation "Generosa Enterprise", Drawing area and projection
Below: Detail of the Installation "Generosa Enterprise"
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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"noWaterWater" Performance-Event und
Mailart- und Tanz Projekt
MonteArte, Monte, TI, Switzerland
26 July 2003 - 9 September 2003
In the Unesco-year of Water, the Performance-Event
and Mail-art show "noWaterWater" took place on
the pilgrim-path to the Grotto of Our Lady in Monte,
Ticino. More than 250 guests from Italy and all over
Switzerland gathered especially for this open-air
event, offered by Curt Walter in collaboration with
MonteArte.
The audience was broadly mixed, and it was rewarding to us to introduce people who otherwise never
visited theater or art productions to such a variety of
art-forms as dance, performance, music and graphic
art. Many journalists and press-photographers, cultural promoters and sponsers were also present.
The natural setting, with its riverbeds, trees, shrubs,
paths and galleries, together with the dancers and
musicians in the spotlight created atmospheric and
poetic pictures. The Mailart-Postcard presentation
of approx. 400 creations by 200 different artists,
together with the dance performances created a
"happening experience", which the audience found
very enjoyable and inviting.
Films: http://www.youtube.com/curtwalter
Cultural support:
Chiasso Cultura; boesner GmbH, Unterentfelden;
netcetera, Zürich; WaterYear 2003, Switzerland;
MonteArte, Monte; Init Seven, Zürich; Comune di
Chiasso; Fondation Oertli Stiftung, Zürich; Netzwerk Wasser; Comune Monte; Repubblica e Cantone Ticino - Swisslos; Chicco d’Oro, Balerna; Ernst
Göhner Stiftung, Zug; Ente Turistico del Mendrisiotto,
Mendrisio; Gruppo Spinelli, Chiasso; ail, Lugano;
Livi Sergio SA, Monte; Luminaudio, Lugano; Raiffeisen Bank, Castel s.Pietro; due sostenitori: diegoarc,
Chiasso; unter dem Patronat des Internationalen Year
des Wassers 2003
Caption:
Top: "noWaterWater" Detail from the dance performance with dancers from the
Accademia in Venice by Carolyn Carlson
Center: "noWaterWater" Detail from the dance performance with dancers from the
Accademia in Venice by Carolyn Carlson
Below: "noWaterWater" Postcard, a participant Marita Liulia, Finland
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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"Luce sotto la pelle"
4 Light - Sound - Sculptures
Isole di Brissago (Lago Maggiore)
24 March - 27 October 2002
Luce sotto la Pelle
Installations:
1. "Planting seeds" "piantare semi" | "Samen setzen"
| atrio, Villa Emden
2. "Fountain of Whispers", on the western part of the
island
3. "Wishing Well" - Roman Baths
4. "Light under the Skin", in the Red Room of Villa
Emden | 3168 individual plaster casts of faces from
all over the world.
Performance art: Choreography by Jsabella Gnos,
Zürich, with musicians and dancers.
Soundbyte Collage for "Luce sotto la pelle" with the
participation of the Choir of Ganterschwil Catholic
Church and the Egg Men›s choir. Composed and
directed by Ivan Masha K., Zürich.
Publications: Corriere del Ticino, F.C. 14.01.02,
16.01.02; Tessiner Zeitung, 16.01.02; Giornale del
Popolo, 11.01.02, 15.01.02; La Regione, 18.01.02,
MA.SE. 19.01.02)
Cultural support: Repubblica e Canton Ticino,
Swisslos | Samen Mauser
Caption:
Top: Detail of the Installation "Wunschbrunnen" with dancers
Center: Detail from a production directed by Jsabella Gnos
Below: Detail of the Installation "Luce sotto la pelle"
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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"Horssol"
7 Light, Sound and Sculpture Installations
1st Swiss Triennia of Sculpture, Bad Ragatz,
Switzerland
28 May - 30 September 2000
3168 Plaster casts of faces of individuals from all
over the world, molded by Curt Walter between 1982
and 1986. A series of installations, each composed of
several hundred casts, were displayed in the unused
bathrooms of the old village spa of Bad Ragatz.
Archive of Feelings: 3168 index cards recording the
3168 persons who modelled for the project. Feelings
and Emotions.
Mutation Room: An installation of fluorescent UVlit face-casts. Movement, hecticness and stressassociated noises recalled the atmosphere of a
chemical or medical laboratory.
Family Room: Casts of the faces of several hundred
women, children and men, invisibly interconnected
and linked together.
Men›s Room: The sculpture objects in the men›s
room recall stalactites and stalagwithes, rising out
of nothingness and gradually growing up into huge
structures.
Women›s Room: Sculptures made out of female
casts are arranged in the light mould-green bathroom
combined with archaic sounds.
Children›s Room: A tiny hole in the doors gave a
glimpse into the room, illuminated by a warm red
light, with sounds of fine, soft drips and creaks to be
heard using the available headphones.
Hand Room: A surreal-looking bathroom with casts
depicting people in various poses.
Mixed Space: An installation consisting of various
face-casts.
Technical Engineer: Hans X. Hagen
Soundtrack-CD: "Horssol", with ANdy Czech and
Stephan Thelen, Zürich
Website: http://www.artsite.ch created by Mario
Purkathofer and Sandra Ruff, Zürich
Catalog: Dr. Rolf Hohmeister, Text: Dr. Maria
Booksbaum and Valéria Jakob Tschui
Commissioned by Dr. Hohmeister 1st Triennial of
Sculpture, Bad Ragatz
Caption:
Top: Detail of the Installation "Familienraum" and "Kinderraum"
Center: Detail of the Installation "Männerraum" and "Frauenraum"
Below: Detail of the Installation "Mutationsraum" and the old baths with the artist
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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"Portable Museums, Paintings, Sculptures,
Photographs"
Exhibition
Sala del Torchio, Balerna, TI
17 February - 4 March 2001
"Me, myself and I": A plastic controversy on the
theme "I and myself": the various aspects of my own
personality.
80 baked terracotta scultures represent various
facets of an internal struggle: cheerful, aggressive,
or dead serious, all together composing a portrait of
myself.
The portable museums are wooden boxes painted
with oil inside and out. They contain sculptures,
objects, drawings and photographs.
The sculptures were photographed under a spectral
light, with sketched versions executed subsequently.
These Portable Museums constitute an impression of
the various disciplines that I have explored over the
years: sculpture, painting, object-art, drawings and
photographs.
Actual Website for "Me Myself and I": http://www.
artsite.ch/diashow/diashow/ime/index. html
Caption:
Various sculptures in terracotta
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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8 Portable Museums
Exhibition
Sala del Torchio, Balerna, TI and
Visibel, Zürich
2010
"The architecture of the Portable Museums" is
designed to represent the technical skills, specialities
and interests that I have explored, through various
collections of works, projects and performances,
over the course of the last 30 years. "I want to give
the things a protective cover!".
The portable museums are wooden boxes painted
with oil inside and out. They contain sculptures,
objects, drawings and photographs.
The sculptures were photographed under a spectral
light, from which sketched versions were also drawn.
These Portable Museums constitute an impression
of the various disciplines that I explored over the
years: sculpture, painting, object-art, drawings and
photographs.
Terracotta: Curt Walter exploits an endless resource
of miniatures in terracotta, a collection of which is
featured in each Portable Museum.
Painting: The outer-sides and lids are painted using
the techniques and painting materials of the old
masters. Materials: China ink - Oil - Casein painting
on wood. Venitian enamel - Oil painting. Canvas
on Wood. Dissolution through light. The engraved
landscape...
Photographs: By means of a 180 degree inversion of
photos of the sculptures, the sculptures are brought
into a new perspective. Photographs taken using
spectroscopic lamp.
Drawings: Drawings and sketches of the miniatures
are an essential part of the contents of every box.
Objects: To make the useless useful...and the useful
useless. Lost and found objects newly assembled
in interesting and meaningful ways, thus generating
further content in each box.
Caption:
Top: Portable Museum "Love", Box, drawing, sculpture, photography, objects
Below: Portable Museum "musician", "Box, sculptures in terracotta, paintings, objects
Showspace:
Sala del torchio Comune di Balerna, 1999
visibel.ch Contemporary Art Space
http://www.visibel.ch
Publication:
http://www.artsite.ch/portable/index.html
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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"Sculpture morte"
"Durchbeissen", Skulptur
1996 - 1997
"Sculpture morte", Engineered Sculpture "Bite
Through". Video
Foundation of Zhart Artists Association
Solo Exhibition "Sculpture morte" Werkhofgalerie
Zürich. "Hold out" - Video
"Bite Through" Engineered sculpture,
Dr. Weilenmann Collection, Zürich
"Zhart" project-proposal by invitation of the City of
Zürich, pitching the socio-cultural attractions of the
city. Zhart Association, foundation & statutes.
"Banquet of Colours" The poetry of colours - a
spoken exhibition with colours.
Advisor for a further education course for art
teachers at the sächsische Academy in Dresden.
Exhibition concept for the homeopathic practice
of Erwin Kaiser in Spycher, Painting "Dissolution",
approx. 50 pictures, Casein-, Egg tempera and
Venitian enamel oil - painting.
Caption:
"Bite Through" engineering sculpture
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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Microscopic Painting
1996 - 1997
Microscopic Painting
Executed using a 1-hair brush under a microscope
on primed wood, and photographed under the
microscope.
Film:
http://www.youtube.com/curtwalter#p/u/2/
Mvg4sIqsjoY
Fotos:
http://www.artsite.ch/diashow/diashow/index.html
Caption:
The painting was created and photographed under the microscopes.
Sice about 0.5 cm²
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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Collages and Drawings
Concept for Dancers
Gallery Exhibitions
1996 - 1997
Collages and Drawings, Concept for Dancers, Gallery
Exhibitions.
"I Fall to Pieces", 34 pages
"Restless", 4 pages
"Liberty in all doubt", 31 pages
"Welcome to paradise", 31 pages
"Welcome to paradise", Volume 1, 97 pages
Collages and drawings for a Fax Exhibition: Art
meets science and spirituality in a changing
economy, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam.
Cultural support: ProHelvetia
Catalog: "Collected Drawings 1981-89"
Caption:
Various paintings, Venetian oil painting, egg-, caseintempera
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"Fire panelsn" Fire feasts, singed canvasses,
painting, caseinpainting
Visibel, Zürich
1988 to the Present
With this technique, I make a theme of painting itself.
Colour is applied and then removed or reduced
on the canvasses, sometimes to the point that it
disappears entirely, leaving only the singed canvas.
respektive
I have developed a variety of "singeing" techniques.
One is through water and fire: from a a single drop of
water, comes a whole cloud, like a vulcano spitting
fire and ice in the sky. What is decisive is only the
immediate condensation of the water, that is burnt-in
with the Bunsen-burner. The works are characterised
by an extremely reduced, laconic and formal, as well
as aesthetic economy.
Another technique, combines the singeing with the
application of colour. Here, I am seeking a middleground between application and removal. Mostly
painted using self-made emulsion and pigments,
based on the Casein-technique.
Yet another technique combines brush-technique
or calligraphy with fire. Water is directly applied to
the canvas with a paintbrush. The brush-strokes
are invisible. Both the accidental and intentional are
conjured out of the flame of the welder.
Cycle: "Our Daily Bread" developed in 1988,
consisting of a few dozen pictures on supports made
from floursacks from the Altstetten Mill slashed up
and worked on the from the inside. The series also
included large-scale works, 3x3m.
Selected works exhibited in Visibel, Raum für
zeitgenössische Kunst, Zürich. www.visibel.ch
Caption:
Top: Large fire panel, fire and water on canvas, 300x300cm
Center: Large fire panel, fire and water on cotton, approx 150x200cm
Below: 15-part work, water, fire and caseintempera on canvas, mounted on wood,
depending on size 21x29.6cm
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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Breadpapers, "Tschernobill’s"
Solo exhibition Galerie Jörg Stummer, Zürich
Restaurant Glashof, Zug
1986 - 1989
Deeply struck by the catastrophe of Tschernobyl, I
dedicated myself exclusively to exploring the scenic
issues that it posed. Executed on silk-paper using
guache, egg tempera, tempera, and apple-peel
(among other materials), with japanese brushes, the
hundreds of paintings in this series ranged from a
method of NON-method, to form-busting attitudes.
Spray-brush tools were employed as a weapon
on these paintings, emphasising their inherent
helplessness: I had to struggle against the invisible
force that came upon us.
Group Exhibition:
Gemeindehaus Zollikon, "Zollikon Art Show"
"The crop of a dark summer", Jörg Stummer Gallery,
Zürich
Caption:
Top: "in die Schale geworfen", apple peel and gouache on silk paper
Below: Detail
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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"Maskerade"
Action
Throughout Switzerland
1981 - 1985
The "Masquerade" is a series of 3168 faces in plaster of
as many participants from around the world.
On about 70 occasions I observed people and captured
their faces in veiled or packed plaster forms. For me,
the molds were a memorial against the violence, torture,
military threat, hunger and poverty that threatened us in
this time.
Among the participants of the action were Didi
Bridgewater, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Claude Nobs and
many others. Among the participants of the action were
Didi Bridgewater, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Claude Nobs
and many others.
The Archive of Feelings contains 3168 index cards
recording as many models, listing their name and age.
They also gave expression to the feelings and emotions
that emerged during the development process, through
text and drawings.
Actions and Exhibitions:
Bad Münster a/Stein, D.: Künstlerbahnhof Zürich:
Schweizerische Epilepsie-Klinik, ETH, Dixie-Metzgete,
American International School, Tango Nächte, SambaFäscht Heuried, Mathilde Escherheim, Kaserne,
Vernissage bei Henri, Universität Zürich, Beat Dünki,
African Roots-Festival, CH-Tanztheater, Jazz-Festival,
Freie Volksschule, Helvetia-Platz, Rosenhof Märt, Rote
Fabrik, Züri Fan Club, Rote Fabrik-Fest, Commi-Halle,
5. Country-Festival im Hallenstadion, Dynamo Zollikon:
Schwimmbad Forbach, Altersheim am See Stäfa:
Kulturkarussell Rössli
Winterthur: Musikfestspiele, Hannes Moos, Wetzikon:
Rest. Krone
St. Gallen: Friedenswoche, Quartier Birnbäumen, Musik
Theater Bella, Frauenwochenende
Grüningen: Schloss Grüningen, Aktion Galerie
Schwyz: Kollegium Schwyz
Adelboden: Behinderten-Ferienlager
Adliswil: Dorffest
Davos: ITA International Conference
Arbon: Open-Air
Wil SG: Open-Air
Baden: Valium
Montreux: Jazz Festival
Caption:
Top: Photo of a classroom with face cast, Colegium Schwyz
Center: Detail from a small collection of facial plaster casts in plaster
Below: Model "Doris" "with cast in plaster, OpenAir, Wil 1983
Catalog: Proposals for Still Sculpture: Towards a Biennale
of Peace, Kunstverein und Kunsthaus Hamburg, 1985-86,
Rèné Block, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams
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1981
"Wishing Well"
Projekt Brunnen "Wishing Well", Bad Münster a/Stein
6 different fountains in various materials.
a) dirty, poisoned well
b) Well with Fish
c) Well with Glass feature
d) Well with Metal sculpture
e) Well with Linden Tree
f) Well with drinking water
Publications: Rhein Zeitung 2. 11. 81 and 21. 7. 81,
R.S.; Welt im Spiegel, 14./15. 11. 81
Dokumentation "Wishing Well"
Caption:
Top: Well "Wishing Well, Bad Münster a. Stein, Germany
Below: Drawing Wishing Well
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The City of Earth-People
Miniature city, a clay model
Steinbruch Erdbach, Germany
1980
The City of Earth-People is a city of miniature ruins,
consisting of 8 small sculptures, inspired by the
ancient Chinese book of oracles, the "I Ching".
Exhibition "City of Earth-People", Steinbruch
Erdbach, Germany
Bundesgartenschau Kassel
City of Earth-People, Landesmuseum Koblenz
Publication: Dill Zeitung, 12.6.80
TV Documentary: "Aspekte", ZDF, 1.7.80 Curt Walter,
Stadt der Erdleute
Caption:
Top: City of Erdleute in a quarry in Erdbach with artist, Germany
Center: Detail from a district FU, (plan of Leonardo da Vinci)
Below: FU district with Globe in the courtyard
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The City of Water People
Miniature city, a clay model
Exhibition: Landesmuseum Koblenz, Germany
Kulturfabrik, Koblenz, Germany
1980
The "City of Water People" is a clay model with
demonstrations of character in comparison with an
environment, a plastic atmosphere.
Exhibition: Landesmuseum Koblenz, Germany
Kulturfabrik, Koblenz, Germany
Publication:
Helga Zahler, Rhein Zeitung, 5.11.80
Koblenz Live, M. Saurer, 10.80
Documentation: "Stadt der Wasserleute"
Data: wasserleuten.indd
Caption:
Top: City of Waterpeople on the Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz, Germany
Below: Detail of the City of Wasserleute
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The City of Changes
Miniature city, a clay model
Clay plit "Iphigenie", Langenaubach, Germany
1979
The City of Changes is a city of miniature ruins,
consisting of 64 small sculptures (scale 1 : 1000),
inspired, figured out and planned on the basis of the
ancient Chinese book of oracles, the I Ching.
The work, entirely made out of clay, is designed
to represent the I Ching in three-dimensional
perspective. It tells the story of a family with three
sons and three daughters who go to settle in a
fertile land together with their family and friends,
seeking the way back to a source. Previouly, they
lived in floating cities, on islands in the sea, which
were destroyed and sank. The family therefore set
out to find a sheltered place, where they might
build a civilisation for their people. The land they
sought was revealed to them through the oracles,
which promised that there would be enough water
to supply their people for the next 3000 years. They
built a fountain as the centrepoint of their society, as
a social structure symbolising a source of heritage
and coherence in their lives (Yin & Yang). Around this
fountain were then built eight cities, in eight cardinal
directions.
In the project of "The City of Changes", the
inspiration of my design focused on the area of
tension, between the concept of Ruin-mythology on
one hand and the plan and layout for a city-model, a
new and future city. In linking the past to the future,
I wanted to distinguish both sides, and then join
them together. The materials that I used were draw
mostly from natural sources such as clay, lava, wood,
bones, stones and coal. I also developed a machine
to produce bricks made from clay, that I then worked
on using a tweezers.
Caption:
Top: City of Changes on the Iphygenie Langenaubach, Germany
Center: Detail of a District
Below: Detail of the City of Changes
Exhibition: Gemeindehaus Breitscheid, Germany.
Landesmuseum Koblenz, Germany. Künstlerbahnhof
Bad Münster a.Stein, Germany
Publications: Joachim Heidersdorf, Herborner
Tagblatt, 25. 9. 1979; Guntram Lenz, 30. 10. 79 and
3. 11. 79; Bunte Welt, Kassel, 27. 10. 79; Planen und
Bauen, 4-80 Essen; Walter Grasskamp, Kunstforum
International, Bd. 38, 2/80. Objekt, 3/80. Dr. R.
Bentmann, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Hessen,
Germany
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Oil Painting
1971 to the Present
Since 1971 to today, I have made paintings using
the techniques of old masters, inspired by the 16th
century works of Titian - among others. The formats
of these works range from 21 x 29.6 to 140x100cm,
on various bases: canvas and cotton stretched on
wood.
In the series "Dissolution" (approx. 50 paintings),
Casein, egg-tempera, and Venitian enamel-oil were
used. (See picture below)
In my artistic practice, I play with chance and
accident, pitting painting against painting. In this, I
am most preoccupied with the "issue of the picture".
Various newer works of this type are currently
exposed at the VISIBEL contemporary art space,
Zürich
http://www.visibel.ch
Caption:
Top: Ballonbild, venetian Oil Painting on canbas, 100x140 cm
Center: Zentrum, venetian Oil Painting on canbas, 100x140 cm
Below: from the series "Auflösung"", 21x29.6cm, venetian Oil Painting on canbas and
Wood.
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1976 - 1977
Portraits
Portrait in terracotta of the Mayor of Colorado
Springs.
Publication:
The Sun, Colorado Springs,
1. 1. 1976, Gazette - Telegraphs, 31. 12. 1975,
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Journal,
Mai 1976; Willem Enzinck, de Stem, 2. 7. 1976;
flu, Nassauische Landeszeitung, Weilburg,
7. 9. 1976; Weilburger Tagblatt, HS
Various Portraits of children and adults in bronze,
made in Germany.
Caption:
Top: Curt Walter, Sculpture in cley with the Magior of Colorado Springs
Below: Portrait Sculpture of a woman in bronze
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Sculptures, Bronzes, Plaster, Terracotta
1976 - 1978
Various Projects
"Every day an idea, every day a sculpture", in clay
and bonze.
"Miniature Village" Elburg, NL
Publication: Elburger Courant, 1.9.1978
Sand-, Earth -, Street - and Sea-works, fictitious
villages and ruins on islands in Elburg, Lac de St.
Mondé, Paris; Nicolasee und Litzensee, Berlin,
Lanzarote, Spain
Miniature villages on Bruchstrasse in Frankfurt a/
Main, Germany
Livable Sculpture, for Dr. Wessling in Bacherach,
Germany
Caption:
Top: Miniatur village, Elburg, Nederlands
Below: Sculpture "Faust" in bronze
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Drawings
1949 to the Present
Countless drawings made over the course of the
last 60 years, using various media, techniques and
supports.
Sketches and drafts for the process or projects or as
first ideas for later works were developed using all
sorts of materials,
including: pencil, China ink, ballpoint, colour pencil,
crayon, woodcarving, charcoal, sepia, blood, fruit
juice, apple-peel, walnut schell, ash, lava.
Caption:
Top: Interactiv drawing, Generosa Enterprise, Zürich, Switzerland
Below: Drawing
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Record, Cover Design, Sounds from Edited
LPs
1990
"A Game with Records"
Gulf War and military irresponsibility were the
inspiration behind these works and their mode of
development and presentation.
For example, "In Memoriam" is a record by a Israeli
dance and music group, worked on using a soldering
iron to create a series of craters protruding from the
vinyl. When played, they constantly throw the pickup head of the LP off into another groove, provoking
constant interruptions.
Imagine: you are listening to music in a concert hall
in Israel, with bombs constantly interrupting the
performance.
Film
The Vinyl record is punctured with craters...
the music is disrupted by bomb attacks...
everything carries on, everything keeps going
round...
only differently.
Film: Danses d›Israël
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jok1lkVX2Ks
Caption:
Top: LP and cover
Center: LP and cover
Below: "in memoriam", LP and cover
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Photographs
1956 - to today
Analog, digital, slides, overexposed, blurred focus,
scratched, collages, frottages...
Photos are, for me, primarily works of art. They are
set in various environments, through projections,
installations or at happenings. Photographs also
serve as background for paintings, collages, etc.
To view samples, please visit:
http://www.youtube.com/curtwalter#p/u/1/3IHHSPONMY
http://picasaweb.google.com/cewete/
InBoscamento?feat=directlink
http://montearte.blogspot.com
http://www.lulu.com/product/dvd/in_
boscamento-07/3128608
I also use photographs to document my artistic
processes, works and actions. These are then either
archived or worked. A photo-documentary of the
sculpture "I›me" is available to view here:
http://www.artsite.ch/diashow/diashow/ime/index.
html
http://www.curtwalter.ch
Caption:
Top: Jsabella Gnos, Performance im Opal Lake, Colorado, Still für einen Film
Center: Architektur Modell
Below: Artwork Foto with Photoshop bearbeitet für Installaton in...boscamento
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Films
1956 - to today
8mm, 16mm, SVHS-Video,
VHS-Video, DV, DVD...
The film camera with moving pictures was a
progression from the photo-camera to the film
camera. A movie camera is also like a means or a
tool with a purpose. It serves me, like the photocamera, to document or to create work. In this
respect, I have been particularly fascinated by 8mm
films, for the functionality of the camera itself. One
such project was an 8mm documentary film in
collaboration with internationally renowned artist
Lawrence Weiner at the Kunsthaus Zug, on the
theme "The Word and Why Word".
Documentation
http://www.lulu.com/product/dvd/in_
boscamento-07/3128608
Artwork
Here is an example, based on the theme of peace
and conflict in Israel and Palestine. An LP, drilled with
holes, is played, constantly grating on the wound.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.youtube.com/curtwalter#p/a/u/0/
Poy23GENqNw
A selection of digital films are also available on my
YouTube channel:
Artworks and Documentations
http://www.youtube.com/curtwalter
Caption:
Top: Filmstill für Film Torrid Landscape
Center: Filmstill with Jsabella Gnos, Performance an der McClures Beach, Californien
Below: Artwork CVD Cover für den Film in...boscamento
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Journals, sketch books
1971 - to today
Various journals for projects, individual journals and
sketches, books of drawings.
1978 Book with 81 drawings. 44 page journal.
Documentation: fictitions villages, slides and
workbooks.
1979 City of Changes, workbook, documentation.
1981 Documentation "Wishing Well"
1982-85 Documentation "Masquerade", Book
"Helvi & Tell", 81 drawings, journal: 70 drawings, 34
aquarelles "Water is Life", 250 page journal, "Nazcali,
19 drawings.
1986 Faces, notes, 47 pages, 64 drawings A4,
Book: "My truth about nothingness". 101 drawings.
Face-studies, 35 drawings. Book: 54 drawings.
1989 "Places to nest, places to spawn";
"Nestoskop". "Adam und Eva". "Silent Perusal". "A
one thousand mile journey lies at your feet"
1990 Collected drawings 1981-89. "Denial of
Sensuality", egg tempera on canvas. "I Fall to
Pieces", 34 pages. "Restless" 4 pages. "Liberty in all
Doubt", 31 pages. "Welcome to paradise", 31 pages.
"Welcome to paradise", Volume 1, 97 pages.
Collages and drawings for Fax Exhibition: Art meets
science and spirituality in a changing economy,
Museum Fodor, Amsterdam.
With Cultural support from "Pro Helvetia"
1991 to today
Caption:
Top: Diary of City of Chanches
Center: Welcome to Paradise, Volume I
Below: Watercolor and Sketchbook
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CookingArt Gourmand
1968 - 2010
Recipes
Macrobiology
Vegi
French Cooking
Trojan Cooking
Japanese Cooking
Bio
Cooking for all the senses
Documentation:
Several Recipe books, recorded recipes on tape,
menu photos.
Cooking courses for beginners and advanced
students.
Caption:
Top: Flyer for a Dinners
Below: My dining table
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Akademie du Feu, Paris
Foundation
1971
Foundation of the Academie du Feu, Rue Delambre,
Rue Daguerre, Rue de la Tombe-Issoir, Paris and at
Chateau Ravenel, Oise, with Peter Szabo and Laszlo
Szabo.
Leader, organiser and advisor for Academie du Feu
Documentation: Brochures >>>Academie du Feu
Caption:
Top: Chateau de Ravenel, Academie du Feu, Ravenel, France
Below: Flyer for the Academie du Feu, Paris and Ravenel
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Workshops, Seminars, Courses
1971 to today
Courses that I currently offer at my studio in Monte,
Valle di Muggio, Ticino, Switzerland include the
following modules:
1. Potential Creativity
2. Eat-art and old-masters painting
3. Cooking for a "longer life" and japanese painting
4. I Ging and Painting or plastic design
5. Enchanted Landscapes
1996
Advisor, further education course for arts teachers at
the Sächsische Acadamy in Dresden
1991
Animation - Trick films for youth at a computer camp
in Lostallo
1971 – 1974
Advisor and organiser of Academie du Feu, Paris
Infos:
http://www.artsite.ch/wtc_1.html
Caption:
Top: Detail of desk, Roche Instrument Center AG, Roche Diagnostics Microtechnology
Center
Below: Group "Winter", Roche Diagnostics Microtechnology Center
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Actions, Streetwork, Street-Artist
1949 - 1971
1949 "meinen Körper, von Innen und Aussen", Spital
Wetzikon
1950 Ausstellung "Sinne", Stationsstrasse Wetzikon
1951 Ausstellung "Gleichgewicht", Stationsstrasse
Wetzikon
1952 Aktion "Hilfe und Not", Stationsstrasse
Wetzikon
1953 Aktion "Rettung vor dem Ertrinken",
Chratteweier Wetzikon
1954 Aktion "Dökterle", Pfäffikersee Wetzikon
1955 Aktion "Milchzähne, Blutspucken", Wetzikon
1956-62 Primarschule, Wetzikon; "Alkohol vor dem
Erfrieren", Säntis, Appenzell
1957 Bau von Höhlen, Hütten, Lager, Baumhütten,
Schilfhütten am Pfäffikersee, Wetzikon
1958 Aktion "Grosse Füsse zu kleine Schuhe",
Wetzikon
1959 Aktion "ich übernehme deine Last",
Schnebelhorn
1960 Aktion "ich übernehme die Pferdewache",
Sitzberg
1961 Ausstellung "Hosen runter, Nägelfüsse",
Wetzikon
1962-65 Aktion "Clown", Wetzikon
1963 Aktion "Liebesküsse", Sitzberg
1964 Aktion "Mimikzigarre", Zürich
1965 Ausstellung und Aktion "Rock", Wetzikon
1967 Aktion "Kündigung an die Schnelligkeit",
Seegräben
1968 Aktion "im High - Park schlafen", London; Anglo
- Continental School of English, Bournemouth
1970 Aktion "Winterliebe im Auto", Pfäffikersee
1971 Aktion "ich diene dir", Compte de Morelos,
Meudon, Paris
Caption:
Top: Curt Walter sculpturing at the Chateau de Ravenel, France
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Unfinished Works, Utopian projects, initiatives
Orphaned, unrealized Concetti, left, failed
1949 bis heute
Generosa | File: LAYOUT_it.indd, LAYOUT.indd
ready(...)made Resurch | File: readymades.doc
Face-Factory | File: face-factory.doc
Kuebler-Ross | File: kuebler-ross
Lisboa | File: lisboa
Singapore | File: fact_sheet_proposal.pdf
Mondavi | File: mondavi
Nika Spalinger | File: nikaspalinger
Om | File: 081117_om.indd
Fluxluxus | File: 080829_dok.pdf
Stans | File: Brief1ProjektSMT2009.doc
Sublim | File: SUBLIM Offerte für Raum#F55.doc
Tapeten | File: Art Tapete.doc
Microcolor | File: microcolor
cruzis, Gräber meiner Freunde | File: cruzis chat
expo | File: expo
Bankett der Farben | File: Bankett der Farben
Kuba | File: Fremd
Wunschbrunnen | File: skiz_00.psd
Artiade | File: artiade
Garden of Love, artistsinlab | File: AIL_
application_d_2009.doc
Inselspital | File: inselspital.doc
Systemart | File: batigroup.doc, lifesience.doc
soziale Skulptur | File: sozialeskulptur.pdf
duparc | File: img_244_tropfen.psd
zhart | File: 99_Zhart
Kochen wie sonst niemand kocht | File: Kochkunst
und Malerei
The listed projects are to artistic suggestions, ideas
and processes to be present. Documentation with
drawings and instructions and / or photographs.
Caption:
Top: Logos of a Brand or project
Center: Logos of a Brand or project
Below: Logos of a Brand or project
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Founded
Art Association "ZHart", Zürich, 1996
Art Association "MonteArte", Zürich, 2002
Art Association "zhart" founded and events:
"Labyrinth", 18 April, Underpass Langstrasse with
Jsabella Gnos and Nic Schwabe.
Performance "Cello/Metzger".
Andreas Hofer’s "Ikosaeder" for the road traffic office
Zürich.
Sculpture for "nameless dead", and other smaller
projects.
Art Association MonteArte
fouded 2002 in Monte, Ticino, Switzerland
http://www.montearte.ch
Caption:
Top: "Penta", Painting on Wood with Magnets
Below: Scroll paintin, Temper painting on Japanese paper. 10mx1.10m. Privat collection
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Work Overview
Solo exhibitions (selection)
Year
Name
Institution
Location
Form of the exhibition
2002 Luce sotto la pelle
Isole di Brissago
Isole di Brissago
4 Installations
2001 Portable Museums & Box
Sala del Torchio
Balerna, Switzerland
Paintings, sculptures, boxes
2002 Fire panels
Finter Bank
Chiasso, Switzerland
Paintings
1997 to bite through
Dr. M. Busin
Zürich, Switzerland
Engineering - Sculpture
1996 Exhibition in the Atelier
Atelier
Monte, Switzerland
My collection
Banquet of colors
sächs. Academy
Dresden, Germany
Poetry of color
Resolution
Praxis
Spycher, Switzerland
Homeopatische oil painting
Sculpture morte
Werkhofgalerie
Zürich, Switzerland
Installation 3168 Faces in plaster
1995 Performance
Clariden Bank
Zürich, Switzerland
Inauguration of painting installation
1994 Housing
Atelier
Schlieren, Switzerland
Processed Omega watches
Zürich, Switzerland
Solo Exhibition
Brotpapiere und Plattenspiele Galerie Rövekamp
1990 Fire panelsn
Shedhalle
Zürich, Switzerland
Shedhalle
1988 Brotpapiere
Gemeindehaus
Zollikon, Switzerland
from the series bread Papers
Brotpapiere
Galerie Rövekamp
Zürich, Switzerland
from the series bread Papers
Pyropeinting
Daniel Müller
Basel, Switzerland
from the series bread Papers
Galerie Stummer
Zürich, Switzerland
from the series bread Papers
Atelier
Zollikon, Switzerland
from the series bread Papers
Künstlerbahnhof
Bad Münster a.S
Solo Exhibition
Künstlerbahnhof
Bad Münster a.S
Well construction, Sculptures
Landesmuseum
Koblenz, Germany
Solo Exhibition
Quarry
Erdbach, Germany
Miniature village
1979 City of changes
Quarry
Breitscheid, Germany
Miniature village
1978 Every day, an idea, every day
a sculpture
Public Art
Elburg, Netherlands
Sculptures - Concept
Public Art
Elburg, Lac de
St. Mondé, Paris;
Nicolasee and
Litzensee, Berlin,
Lanzarote, Spain
Street art
1987 Brotpapiere
... I'll show my harvest
1981 City of changes
Wishing Well
1980 Stadt der Erdleute
Stadt der Erdleute
Sand, earth, -, roads - and
maritime labor, fictitious
villages, ruins on islands
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Work Overview
Group exhibitions (selection)
Year
Name
Institution
Location
Form of the exhibition
2010
Manca qualcosa! dove
siete?
lo spirito del Lago
Isola Bella, Italy
Installation
2010
in between
MEWO, Kunsthalle
Memmingen, Germany
Installation
2008
Lux Pons
Chiasso Cultura
Chiasso, Switzerland
Bi6 | Biennale dell’immagine
2007
in...boscamento
Montearte
Monte, Switzerland
Light installations
2006
Generosa Enterprise
Montearte
Monte, Switzerland
Interaktive Installation
2005
Generosa Enterprise
ETH, Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Interaktive Installation
2003
noWaterWater
Montearte
Monte, Switzerland
Installationen, contemp. Dance
2000
Horssol
Bad Ragartz
Bad Ragaz,
Switzerland
7 Installation for the 1 Swiss
Sculpture Triennale
1996- zhart
1998
Stadt Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
various art projects in public
spaces in the city of Zurich
1989
I Fall to Pieces, Restless,
Liberty in all doubt,
Welcome to paradise
Museum Fodor
Amsterdam, Switzerland
Faxart for Art meets science and
spirituality in a changing economy
Painting
Hektor Peterson
Zürich, Switzerland
Projekt Hektor Peterson
Skin Drawings
Art Magazin
Zürich, Switzerland
Skin Drawings
Chair
Produzentengalerie
Zürich, Switzerland
Solidaritätsausstellung
Fire panels
Gemeindehaus
Zollikon, Switzerland
Art exhibition Zollikon
"Brotpapier"
Galerie Stummer
Zürich, Switzerland
Ernte eines trüben Sommers
Sinking of the Titanic
Stadt Winterthur
Winterthur, Switzerland
Painting, Kunst in der Stadt
Winterthur
Watering place
Skulptura 85
Zollikon, Switzerland
Installation
1982- Aktion Maskerade
1985
siehe Portfolio
different places
Action: modeling a plaster cast
from the face of 3168 people
1982
Self-portrait
Zürcher Oberländer
Grüningen, Switzerland
Self Overview
1976
Sculptures
Rotary - Club
Weilburg, Grmany
Kreissparkasse Weilburg
1974
Tree of Life
Rathaus
Mainz, Germany
with Laszlo Szabo, Mainz
1988
1987
1985
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Work Overview
Performances, artistic activities (selection)
Year
Name
Institution
Location
Form
1998
"zhart" events:
Stadt Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Performance, Public space
1994
Festival in Jakobstadt
Theater
Jakobstadt Finnland
Performance with Paul Giger und
Jsabella Gnos
1992
Artists in process
Grünen Glas
Zürich, Switzerland
Performance
Stadelhofen
Zürich, Switzerland
Performance with 7 TänzerInnen
Siehe Portfolio
verschiedene Orte, ,
Switzerland
Aktion von 3168 Menschen
einen Gipsabguss vom Gesicht
modelieren
1990
Schatten auf der Lunge
1982- Aktion Maskerade
1985
Books, CDs, DVDs, Video (selection)
Year
Name
Institution
Location
Form
2010
"in...boscamento"
Salvioni Edizione
Bellinzona
ISBN 978-88-7967-288-7
2010
Torrid Landscape
Cultura Chiasso
Chiasso, Switzerland
DVD
2007
in...boscamento
Montearte
Monte, Switzerland
DVD
2002
EXPOMAT
Edition Patrick Frey
Zürich, Switzerland
Book Seite 108, 2234
1996
Hold out
Werkhofgalerie
Zürich, Switzerland
Video
Cover – Design
1992
X FADE
Radio Osaka
Zürich, Switzerland
1990
Collected Drawings 1981-89
Atelier
Zürich, Monte,
Switzerland
Ordner
nesting places, places to
spawn
Bahnhofstrasse
Zürich, Switzerland
Book Project outline
Adam und Eva
Atelier
Zürich, Switzerland
Book Project outline
Silent reading
Atelier
Zürich, Switzerland
Book Project outline
A thousand miles journey
starts from your feet
H-Bahnhof Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Book Project outline
PTT - Tax card
PTT
Schweiz, Switzerland
Taxcard ed. 500 000
There’s a way
Institut für
wissenschaftliche
Fotografie
Schloss Weissenstein,
Germany
Video
Tribute to the dead flash
TV-RTSI
Lugano, Switzerland
Video
1986
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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Work Overview
Presentations, drawings, notations (Select)
Year
Name
Institution
Location
Art
1986
Faces - Studies
Private property
Zürich, Switzerland
35 Drawings
54 Drawings
Private property
Zürich, Switzerland
54 Drawings
my reality of nothing
Private property
Zürich, Switzerland
101 Drawings
Faces, quotes
Private property
Zürich, Switzerland
47 Drawings
64 Drawings A4
Private property
Zürich, Switzerland
64 Drawings
Water is life
Private property
Zürich, Switzerland
34 Aquarelle
Helvi & Tell
Private property
Zürich, Switzerland
81 Drawings
Diary
Private property
Zürich, Switzerland
70 Drawings
Diary
Private property
Zürich, Switzerland
250 Drawings
1985
Proposals for silence
sculpture
Kunstverein
Kunsthaus Hamburg,
Germany
Presentation for "going up to a
biennial of peace"
1979
Documentation and
workbooks from the city of
change, the city Erdleute,
the city water people
Private property
Zürich, Monte, Switzerland
Dokumentations
1978
81 Drawings
Private property
Zürich, Switzerland
Book with 81 Drawings
44 Drawings
Private property
Zürich, Switzerland
Diary
Documentation fictitious
villages, slides, and
workbooks
Private property
Zürich, Switzerland
Dokumentations
1884
Seminars, workshops (selection)
Year
Name
Institution
Location
Art
2006
Team Building Workshop
painting with employees
Roche
Switzerland
Roche Diagnostics
Microtechnology Center
1996
Officer training course for art sächsische
teachers
Akademie
Dresden, Germany
Old master techniques in painting,
oil, casein, egg tempera, tempera
painting
1996- Various seminars in the
2010 studio
Atelier
Monte, Switzerland
Painting, creative, cooking and
painting (see offer)
1991
Computer Camp
Lostallo, Switzerland
Animation for young people
Academie du Feu
Paris, France
Revival of the Academy
Animation - cartoons for
young people
1971- Speaker and organizer
1974
Curt Walter | Visual Artist | Atelier Artsite | CH - 8675 Monte | 079 480 86 75 | [email protected] | www.curtwalter.ch | www.visibel.ch
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