The works of the Swiss artist Sebаstien Verdon shown in the exhibition “Times” are the product of the two-week artist-in-residence project run at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska in September 2013.
The project was carried out with the assistance of the Basel festival “Culturescapes”, organised by a non-governmental organisation of the same name since 2003. “Culturescapes” is held annually with the aim of promotion of culture (visual arts, theatre, music, dance, literature, film) and cultural exchange between Switzerland and other countries, and this year it focused on the Balkans and intercultural connections between the Balkan states and Switzerland. The mode selected for cooperation in the field of visual arts was that of artist-in-residence exchange, which included the participation of eight Swiss artists and eight artists from the Balkan states. The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska was the partner in the project for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The paintings, drawings, videos and installations shown in this exhibition offer an insight into Verdon’s artistic aspirations to date and his dealing with the complex relations between time and space. The exhibition title “Times” thus encapsulates his interest to explore and examine these determinants, their evasiveness and changeability, as well as the tendency to push back their current boundaries and realities.
Exhibition curator: Žаnа Vukičević
Sebаstien Verdon was born in Stuttgart in 1979. He lives and works in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Between 1997 and 2000, he attended the CEPV School of Photography at Vevey. Between 2006 and 2009, he studied at the Bern University of the Arts, where he obtained a degree in fine arts. Since 2006, he has had exhibitions at Neuchâtel, Geneva, Paris, London, Basel, Zurich, Tokyo, Milаn, and Los Angeles. This multimedia artist does spatial and video installations, photography and acrylic wall painting, through which he explores the relation between time and two-dimensional or three-dimensional space. He is recognised as an artist of illusionist spatial installations and optical interventions.
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