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BUETTI Daniele
Born in 1956 in Fribourg, Switzerland. The artist lives and works in Zurich and Berlin.
Are we creating our own world or is it the media that create us? This relationship of authentic feelings and mediated realities runs as a leitmotif through Daniele Buetti's oeuvre.
By exhibiting a fake luxury Buetti does not attempt to unmask a world of illusions but to play with the possibilities of seduction and with the manipulation of our feelings. We are seduced by the glimmer and glitter of his pictures and become aware of our longing for a perfect world - which at the same time is identified as a pipe-dream. This discovery could be leading into despair if it wasn't for Buetti: In combining pictures of beautiful women with simple questions like "Will I ask for help" he shows even a superstar to be vulnerable. By putting her into the context of daily life and compassion she and with her the glamourous dream-world gains back credibility and individuality. And we realize that we are constantly oscillating between self-determination and seduction, between creating our own world and being created by others.
For the first time Daniele Buetti works with artificial light. It illuminates perforated coloured kitchen- or plastic-foil from the back. Iconographically as well as iconologically words and sentences become more important in Buetti's work. The text stands on its own or is combined with pictures of beautiful women.
It is not primarily the content of the text that directs our attention but the very sensual aura of the pictures. Their vibrations seduce and capture the eye of the beholder.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1987 Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin, cat. (with T. Hirschhorn)
1990 Galerie Harbord & Wiensowski, Berlin, cat. (with O. Schwarz)
1992 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, cat.
1994 Kleines Helmhaus, Zurich, cat.
Galerie Weber, Münster
1996 Galerie arsFutura, Zurich
Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, cat. (with A. Amadio)
museumsakademie berlin, Berlin, cat.
1997 espai Lucas, Valencia, cat.
Saint-Gervais, Geneva
Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne
Bartók 32 Galéria, Budapest
ACE Gallery, Los Angeles
CAN, Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel
1998 Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, cat.
Damasquine Art Gallery, Brussels, cat.
Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
1999 Galerie arsFutura, Zurich
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, cat.
B & D Studio Contemporanea, Milan
museumsakademie / Galerie Helen Adkins, Berlin
espai Lucas, Valencia
2001 Galerie arsFutura, Zurich
B & D Studio Contemporanea, Milan
Galeria Ad Hoc, Vigo
2002 Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, cat.
Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
2003 Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br., cat.
Helmhaus, Zurich, cat.
FRAC, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Marseille
Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
2004 FRAC, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, cat.
Museum Henie Onstad, Hovikodden , Oslo, cat.
Galerie arsFutura, Zürich
Espai Lucas, Valencia
Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz
2005 Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
Kunstraum, Innsbruck
Galeria Distrito 4, Madrid
2006 Aeroplastics Contemporary, IS MY SOUL LOSING CONTROL?
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Galerie Ernst Hilger, Wien
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin / FRAC, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Marseille / Fundación Caixa Galicia / Kunsthaus Bregenz / Kunsthaus Zürich / Kunstmuseum Bern / Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris / migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich / Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid / Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg / Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Salzburg / Villa Merkel, Esslingen
Some of his group exhibitions include the Austrian Triennial, the Istanbul Biennale, and the modern art museums of Turin, Brussels, Madrid, Berlin, and Salzburg.
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