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Raphael Hefti
Salutary Failures
Kunsthalle Basel and Lenz
2021/2022
With texts by Carina Bukuts, Adam Jasper, Nora N. Khan, Dieter Roelstraete, Fabian Schöneich, Carmen Van Pamel and a conversation between Elena Filipovic and Raphael Hefti
Edited by Fabian Schöneich
First published by Kunsthalle Basel and Lenz, 2021
Design Maximage
Hardcover, 19×27 cm, 340 pages
English / German
ISBN 978-88-945353-0-3
40 CHF / 40 € / 40 $
The first comprehensive monograph on the work of Swiss artist Raphael Hefti was published on the occasion of his major solo exhibition in 2020 at Kunsthalle Basel. With a career spanning over a decade, Hefti is celebrated for upending and disrupting seemingly ordinary industrial and post-industrial processes. Hefti’s intimate encounters with materials take form in colossal sculptures, performances that at times flirt with the brink of disaster, and sprawling public interventions. Savoring an irreverent and tongue-in-cheek relationship to physics, Hefti unveils everyday things so well hidden in plain sight and turns the principles of minimalism on their head.
This richly illustrated volume captures the artist‘s complete body of work through his process of making in factories across Europe to their installation in museums and galleries. With contributions from a diverse cast of authors—a philosopher, a science-fiction writer, and an art historian among others—Hefti‘s material transformations come to life in saturated words and images that tell stories of error, risk and wonder (from the scale of the particle to the universe at large).
Every copy of this book is unique. The distribution of pigments is the result of their manipulation during screen printing, and no two covers are alike. Printed by the artist in collaboration with Atelier für Siebdruck, Lorenz Boegli, Müntschemier, CH.
Raphael Hefti first apprenticed as an electronics engineer. He went on to study photography at ECAL, Lausanne and fine art at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, where he graduated with a Master's degree. His work has been exhibited at the following institutions, among others: Kunsthalle Basel; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Liverpool Biennale; Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles; Nottingham Contemporary; CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux and Camden Art Centre, London. Hefti lives and works in Zurich.
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