Flurin Bisig at Tick Tack

Artist: Flurin Bisig

Exhibition title: Love and Work (2007 – today)

Venue: Tick Tack, Antwerp, Belgium

Date: January 18 – February 29, 2020

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Tick Tack, Antwerp

TICK TACK is pleased to invite you to the first solo exhibition in Belgium by Flurin Bisig (1982, CH). Opening night Friday 17 January 19:00 – 22:00 PM

In his work Swiss artist Flurin Bisig explores, above all, the power of sculpture. By continually questioning how the medium is characterized and defined, he finds impetus for his reflections everywhere in everyday life – from the entangled legs of a couple, to a room marked by the commanding posture of a waitress. Beginning with drawings, the work process involved is slower and more concrete, due to the sculptor’s choice of traditional materials. By this means, they evoke classical sculpture and thus at the same time reanimate the past – or rather, propel it forward. Furthermore, Bisig succeeds in skillfully controlling or even inverting the expected visual effect of his materials. For instance, a piece of tape placed on the edge of a plaster figure appears to hold the solid body together – as if it were a delicate eggshell – thus giving it such an air of instability that viewers approach it gingerly.
In addition to his sculptural practice, for over ten years Bisig has been creating works on paper, which he numbers consecutively. Inspired by Robert Morris’s Blind Drawings and operating under a set of rules, drawings 259–269 (wir körper 1zu4/us bodies 1to4) form a series in its own right.

Text Courtesy GNYP, Berlin

Flurin Bisig, Love and Work (2007 – today), 2020, exhibition view, Tick Tack, Antwerp

Flurin Bisig, Rashomon (RV 1021), 2015, Folded metal sheet, wood, spray paint, 25 x 25 x 70 cm

Flurin Bisig, Love and Work (2007 – today), 2020, exhibition view, Tick Tack, Antwerp

Flurin Bisig, Viva Last Blues 2, 2018, Plaster, tape, steel, glass, spray paint, 100 x 60 x 50 cm

Flurin Bisig, Viva Last Blues 4, 2018, Lime stone, tape, steel, glass, spray paint, 180 x 25 x 25 cm

Flurin Bisig, Viva Last Blues 1, 2018, Plaster, tape, steel, glass, spray paint, 140 x 60 x 50 cm

Flurin Bisig, Love and Work (2007 – today), 2020, exhibition view, Tick Tack, Antwerp

Flurin Bisig, Kröger 1, 2019, Trapezoidal sheet metal (aluminium), rivetet on a wooden construction, 295 x 245 x 95 cm

Flurin Bisig, Love and Work (2007 – today), 2020, exhibition view, Tick Tack, Antwerp

Flurin Bisig, Viva Last Blues, 2018, Inket-print on aludibond, 95 x 65 x 3 cm

Flurin Bisig, Love and Work (2007 – today), 2020, exhibition view, Tick Tack, Antwerp

Flurin Bisig, Viva Last Blues 2, 2018, Plaster, tape, steel, glass, spray paint, 100 x 60 x 50 cm

Flurin Bisig, Love and Work (2007 – today), 2020, exhibition view, Tick Tack, Antwerp

Flurin Bisig, 259 – 269 (4zu1, wir körper), 2018, Folded paper, pencil and roll pen on transparent paper, plexiglass frame 12 pieces (including concept drawing), 46 x 36 cm

Flurin Bisig, This Is How I Start Another Day In My Kingdom, 2007-2020, Permanent marker/roll pen on paper, wooden construction, magnet color, magnets, variable dimensions