Daniel Robert Hunziker

Andreas Grimm is pleased to announce this year's participation in the VOLTA5 Art Fair Basel, with a solo presentation of new works by Daniel Robert Hunziker (*1965, Walenstadt, Switzerland).

Hunziker has a particular affinity to architectonic situations and forms of suburbia, which he transfers to exhibition rooms as fictitious settings and structures made from construction materials and found objects.

In his work, Hunziker blends a strong feeling for space and his impressions of structures into mysterious objects, which can be located somewhere between model and installation.
As a rule, the artist finds concrete points of departure for his individual works in constructions he happens to come across in his everyday environment and which he observes first and foremost from the perspective of a sculptor. In his constant search for connections in what he refers to as „the seemingly common and unspectactual“, he relies on his probing eye to investigate shapes, edges, surfaces and proportions . „I am interested in how do elements join up with each other? How do they physically meet and relate together? How do they affirm form and function?”

Among new objects and a series of collages made from bookcovers, visitors to the booth are invited to experience a site-specific installation which demonstrates the artist's great interest in the enigmatic play of light, translucency and reflection. The optical illusion of changing colors and 3-D structures arising from the effects of light and shadow illustrate what the artist means when he emphasizes that: "nothing shows itself at once. To focus on the various layers, that we see unconsciously, is so exciting."

Daniel Robert Hunziker studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich, 1988/89) and Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK, 1993-97). He lives and works in Zurich.

Hunziker’s solo presentation at VOLTA5 is his second solo project with our gallery, after the first solo exhibition in 2008, "Kept together", in our Munich gallery space.



Daniel Robert Hunziker, O/O/O, 90 x 130 x 44 cm, 2009.