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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.
