An event organised by TransArts
- Transdisciplinary Art
I am interested in the process of unpredictable change. Basically I try to come to
a form with the means of deformation. The basis of my artistic work is paper or papier-mâché, made from toilet paper. The
irony here is the ambivalence of the material.
A material with its lightness,
strength, suppleness, with the many shades of color and so hygienic that you go with
it to your own mucous membranes.
I make sculptural experiments whose results cannot be thought of in advance. It is the confrontation with a poetry (or the
imagination of it) and the transformation of the uncertain that interest me.
The way of working is a dialogue with
me and the objects. Nature also plays an essential role. My experiments are a constant arranging of forms and materials between
recreating and recycling.
Heiri Häfliger, 1969 born in Langnau - Switzerland; 1985 –
1989 apprenticeship as surveyor; 1990 – 1995 surveyor in the German and French part of Switzerland; 1992 – 1994 School of
Design, Olten/Switzerland; 1995 – 1999 studies of sculpture, University of Applied Arts Vienna, (Richard Deacon, Marien Schouten,
Sepp Auer, Brigitte
Kowanz); 1998 – 2012 assistant studio Franz West; 2012 – 2017 collaboration in the Foundation
Franz West; 1999 – ongoing artistic freelancer, exhibitions in Austria and abroad. Lives and works in Vienna and East Tyrol.
