[Reader-list] www.tank.tv : Christoph Rütimann : 1.01.09 - 14.01.09

[tank.tv press]

CHRISTOPH RÜTIMANN
'Handlauf - Handrail'
1st - 14th January 2009
www.tank.tv

In 2009 tank.tv will embark on an ambitious series of solo shows. New
exhibitions will open online every two weeks before being made available in
our growing archive. This programme of solo shows represents an opportunity
to examine a plethora of approaches to the moving image whilst allowing
in-depth insight into each individual artist's practice.

We are pleased to announce that the first artist in this series will be
Christoph Rütimann.

Rütimann's 'Handlauf' series leads us on an endless camera ride through the
world.  Beijing, Skopje, Spullersee, Piccadilly Circus, Fuerteventura and
back.

Railings and handrails serve as camera tracks in these remarkable and
hypnotic works. The special perspective of the rolling camera and the
constant view of the 'tracks' pulls on the spectators eye as the field of
vision is drawn into the camera's lens. As the central perspective is
recreated continuously before being lost and mirrored in the viewer's eye
the soundtrack created by the hard plastic wheels of the camera rattles and
rolls.

Rütimann's work is characterised by a number of artistic strategies that
range from performance, via text and video works, to classical means of
expression, such as drawing, painting and sculpture, which he constantly
questions as to their fundamental parameters. Despite all the diversity of
the media he deploys, constant invariables in his oeuvre can still be made
out: lines as two- or three-dimensional boundaries, colours and their
inherent qualities but also a game of chance or gravitation. In any case, a
reference to scientific questions is tangible that Rütimann however
approaches playfully, expanding the presumed rationality of scientific
discourses by an unfathomable dimension. Over the past years he has, among
other things, worked on a remarkable series of video works.

For additional information visit www.tank.tv.

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