Hans Danuser hands over his archive to the Fotostiftung Schweiz
Published: Wednesday, May 22nd 2024, 13:50
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Photographer and artist Hans Danuser is bequeathing his archive to the Fotostiftung Schweiz. As the foundation announced on Wednesday, Danuser and the Fotostiftung have developed a concept for the gradual transfer and long-term management of the archive.
Hans Danuser, born in Chur in 1953, is regarded as one of the pioneers of an approach that links art with science and contemporary issues. Although his archive is committed to photography, it must be viewed in the broader context of contemporary art.
Danuser, who has his studio in Zurich, is now handing over his work to the Fotostiftung Schweiz in Winterthur. In addition to large-format pictures, this includes documents showing how he developed his projects.
Danuser's works are also part of public and private collections in Switzerland and internationally, for example at the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Fotomuseum Winterthur, the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York and the Museum of Modern Art New York (MoMa).
Danuser gained international recognition with his cycle "In Vivo" (1989). Photographs of the gold market, nuclear energy, biotechnology or genetic research tilt from the representational to the abstract. According to the press release, the viewer is given a feeling of loss of control.
In his subsequent works, he found metaphors for the dangers of globalization and a society whose basic institutional values are eroding. He also addressed climate change and visualized erosion both as a geological phenomenon and with its social dimension.
Danuser has also repeatedly collaborated with other artists and researchers, such as the architect Peter Zumthor, the author Reto Hänny, Reinhard Nesper from the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry at ETH Zurich and Bettina Gockel from the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich.
The Fotostiftung Schweiz wants to make excerpts from Danuser's archive, which it is now gradually receiving, accessible to the public in future.
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