Editions and Media

Jim Dine
American bolt cutter, 2022

bronze

63 × 29.5 × 29.5 cm

edition of 6 + AP 2 (all slightly different)

Sara Masüger
‹To Us and All the Others›, 2022

alginate cast of Michel Auder's Hand
bronze, patinated

74 × 77 × 7 cm

edition of 3 + AP 2

Sabrina Chou
‹Alibi Alibi›, 2022

bronze, patinated

Sausage: 17.5 × 3.5 × 4 cm
Salami: 25 × 7 × 7 cm

edition von 6 + AP 2

Stefan Burger arrived at the Sitterwerk studio, where he has been working on photographic and sculptural works, at the end of July. For the Open Studio, he is presenting the new Sitterwerk edition ‹Sankt Galler Schwund›.

Starting from the process of shrinkage in the process of casting metal, with ‹Sankt Galler Schwund› Stefan Burger uses loss as a sculptural strategy. The sculpture consists of a laundry drying stand reduced in size by 5 percent, along with a single sock. In contrast to the sculptural process of enlarging to scale, which often requires space, the sculpture ‹Sankt Galler Schwund› cannot only be folded up practically and stowed away behind furniture, but already also comes with the offer of its own dissolution from the very beginning already.

Stefan Burger arrived at the Sitterwerk studio, where he has been working on photographic and sculptural works, at the end of July. For the Open Studio, he is presenting the new Sitterwerk edition ‹Sankt Galler Schwund›.

Starting from the process of shrinkage in the process of casting metal, with ‹Sankt Galler Schwund› Stefan Burger uses loss as a sculptural strategy. The sculpture consists of a laundry drying stand reduced in size by 5 percent, along with a single sock. In contrast to the sculptural process of enlarging to scale, which often requires space, the sculpture ‹Sankt Galler Schwund› cannot only be folded up practically and stowed away behind furniture, but already also comes with the offer of its own dissolution from the very beginning already.

Alex Hanimann is a Swiss artist who lives in St. Gallen and teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts. Through earlier work, he was already familiar with the Kunstgiesserei and thus also got to know the Sitterwerk Foundation. He had young people stand as models for his sculptures and reproduced them in various sizes and materials. Among other things, he produced Shirin, Ana, Christoph, Reinhard and Romy in almost lifelike appearance for an exhibition in the St. Gallen Art Museum. The same models are available at the Sitterwerk as editions much smaller and in glass.

Alex Hanimann
Shirin, Ana, Reinhard left, Reinhard right, Christoph, Romy, 2019 (f.l.t.r.)

glass figure, ca. 30 cm high
edition of 6

Anton Bruhin (*1949, lives and works in Zurich) draws on a broad palette of topics and media in his artistic work. His oeuvre consists of portrait and landscape paintings, collections of palimpsests that he has realized as books, reliefs created from Lego building blocks, and many other things. Although he remains offline until today, he already engaged with the possibilities of artistic work with the help of computer programs at a quite early point in time.

Anton Bruhin has been exploring realistic and archetypal forms of presenting heads and faces in various series and techniques for decades. In 2019, an extensive, still open series of «heads consisting of formwork panels» has been created within this context. He has commercially available concrete formwork panels with their characteristic materiality and color cut to size based on lists of parts available at the hardware store, and assembles them precisely in his studio to create diverse representations of heads. He thus sounds out the boundaries between figuration and abstraction when portraying human beings in a stringently limited vocabulary of forms.

For the St.Gallen Museum Night in 2019, the Sitterwerk Foundation produced individual objects from this series in bronze in the open casting method at the Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen AG.

The two works "Bronze Head" can be seen in the exhibition "Anton Bruhin - Hauptsache" in the Haus für Kunst Uri from 7 March - 17 May 2020.

Lena Henke is a sculptor and lives in New York. She moved into her temporary studio in the Sitterwerk’s large project studio at the end of August 2017 and meticulously and with ever greater concentration worked on developing her solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Zürich (An Idea of Late German Sculpture; To the People of New York, March 3 – May 13, 2018).

Born in Warburg in 1982, Lena Henke studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 2004 to 2010. Her sculptural works are made from a wide range of materials and preferably conceived as large-scale installations. Urban and spatial planning theories, relationship systems as well as recurring form elements such as horse and female bodies often play a decisive role in them.

Jali is a work of Turkish artist Nevin Aladağ, produced 2017 in the Sitterwerk’s guest studio for the Documenta 14. As support of the project and the Sitterwerk an edition of single bricks was made which is on sale at the Sitterwerk.

Keeping out and letting in, showing and concealing, intimacy and display are important themes in Nevin Aladağ's work. In cooperation with the Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen Aladağ developed her contribution for the Documenta with light and sight-permeable ceramic bricks, glazed in subtle pastel shades and stacked in a screen-like manner, drawing a filigree, yet firm and insurmountable barrier through the Landesmuseum in Kassel. The different clay elements are inspired by Moroccan, Japanese, and European lattice and window ornaments.

In August 2016, on the occasion of its ten-year anniversary the Sitterwerk published an edition. For it, ten artists with close ties to the Sitterwerk each contributed one work.

One hundred copies of the edition were produced, with each work numbered and signed. The edition can be purchased for the price of 1,800 francs and proceeds go to support the Sitterwerk Foundation.

For their works we express our heartfelt gratitude to the artists.

Aglaia Konrad / Willem Oorebeek
Looking North, 2016
Hahnemühle Photo Rag

Mariana Castillo Deball
Cancelation gesture nr.3, 2016
Hahnemühle Baryta

Silvie Defraoui
DER ROTE FADEN, 2016
Inkjet print from a digital collage
Hahnemühle Photo Rag

Charlotte Moth
aus dem Travelogue, 2015 (Print 2016)
Inkjet print from an analogue color negative, Ilford Omnijet

Jochen Lempert
Liechtenstein, 2013 (Print 2016)
Inkjet print from an analogue photogram, Hahnemühle Photo Rag

Peter Fischli und David Weiss
An Untitled Work, 1987 (Print 2016)
Inkjet print from an analogue color negative, Hahnemühle Photo Rag

Shahryar Nashat
Knee Copy, 2016
Hahnemühle Baryta

Katalin Deér
Stein, Schnitt, 2016
Inkjet print from an analogue color negative, Hahnemühle Baryta

Ueli Torgler
Lehmgarten Sittertal, 3. Mai 2016
Hahnemühle Photo Rag

Miriam Sturzenegger
Is It, 2013 (Print 2016)
Inkjet print from an analogue color negative, Hahnemühle Baryta

The guest artist Ueli Torgler has been working on an experimental garden since September 2014. He is modeling a sculptural landscape from a large amount of clay. His work also incorporates external influences and the circumstances given by the material. Weathering and the changeability of the material therefore affect the temporally extensive process of building. The edition Wurmgold (Worm Gold) was created from this work; cast golden worm balls in the original size, available in gold bullion or in brass fire-plated with gold.

The cast apple still lifes by Yves Netzhammer are offshoots of the outdoor installation Die Sprache spielt Zeit oder Fabelhaft war der Apfelsaft (The Language Plays Time or Scrumptious Was the Apple Juice). Yves Netzhammer traced the position of the former fruit pressing facility in Affoltern am Albis in a larger work with cast piles of apples. The apple still lifes, which are available as single apples or in groups of up to four apples, were created from the production using the direct burn out technique.

The artist Mariana Castillo Deball was a guest in the Sitterwerk in 2012, where she produced a larger work in stucco marble for the documenta 13. A series of smaller, unique stucco marble works were created within this context and are available for purchase as a patron edition. The objects with the title Uncomfortable Objects go back to a formula of the mathematician Felix Klein (1849–1925). The last unique works from this edition are still available in the Sitterwerk.

Poster, single, 2023
«Mein ABC ist sekundär»

Fotos: Katalin Deér
Design: Rosario Florio, Larissa Kasper
Year: 2023
Size: 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, inkjet

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Poster, single, 2021
Reading the Library

Design: Kasper-Florio
Year: 2021
Size: 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, inkjet

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Poster, single, 2021
'SITTERWERK'

Fotos: Katalin Deér
Design: Rosario Florio, Larissa Kasper
Year: 2021
Size: 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, inkjet

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Poster, single, 2012

'WERKSTOFFARCHIV'

Fotos: Katalin Deér
Design: István Scheibler
Year: 2012
Size: 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, offset

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Poster, single, 2012

'BIBLIOTHEK'

Fotos: Katalin Deér
Design: István Scheibler
Year: 2012
Size: 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, offset

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Poster, single, 2018

'WERKSTOFFARCHIV'

Fotos: Katalin Deér
Design: István Scheibler
Year: 2018
Size : 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, offset

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Poster, single, 2018

'ATELIERHAUS'

Fotos: Katalin Deér
Design: István Scheibler
Year: 2018
Size: 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, offset

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Poster, single, 2018

'KUNSTBIBLIOTHEK'

Fotos: Katalin Deér
Design: István Scheibler
Year: 2018
Size: 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, offset

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Poster, single, 2018

'SITTERWERK'

Fotos: Katalin Deér
Design: István Scheibler
Year: 2018
Size: 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, offset

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Sketches of the Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen
Editor: Stiftung Sitterwerk, Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen
Concept: Roland Früh, Stefan Inauen
Text: Roland Früh
Correction: Anthony DePasquale
Graphic: PIN (Samuel Bänziger, Rosario Florio, Larissa Kasper)
Print: Ostschweiz Druck AG, St. Gallen, 2020
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-033-06940-4

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Publications about Hans Josephsohn can be found in the Kesselhaus Josephsohn Shop.

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Published: Soberscove Press, 2015
Texts: Anthon Astrom und Lukas Zimmer (Astrom/Zimmer), Dorothée Bauerle-Willert, Susanne Bieri, Christian Kern, Felix Lehner, Claudia Mareis, Gehard Matter, Philipp Messner, Paul Michel, Hans Petschar, Tobias Schelling, Marina Schütz, Fabian Wegmüller, Hans Witschi
Translation: Alta L. Price
Photography: Katalin Deér
Design: István Scheibler
Lithography: Henrik Strömberg
Editorial assistance: Vanessa Simili
ISBN: 978-1-940190-09-9

The book can be ordered directly from the publisher: Suberscove.com

Samuel P. Smith
Interviews: Hubert Mäder, Bijoy Jain, Ruedi Krebs, Katalin Deér, Felix Lehner, Marco Ganz, Salome Lippuner, André Murer and René Odermatt, Lorenz Bachmann, Leif Linhoff and Nicolas Rotenbühler, Ueli Vogt
Photography: Lorenz Bachmann, Katalin Deér, Hubert Mäder
Editor: Samuel P. Smith, ETH Zürich, Department of Architecture, 2012
Languages: German, English

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Curators: Roger Boltshauser, Marlène Wirty and Janina Flückiger
Collaborations: Clemens Quirin (Lehm Ton Erde Baukunst GmbH), Isabelle Brunier (Office du patrimoine et des sites Genf), Students of the EPFL, Archizoom, Sitterwerk Foundation St. Gallen
Photography: Philip Heckhausen, Noémie Allenbach Tsu-Shin, Sébastien Friess
Graphic: Büro 146, Zürich

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Daniel Rohner
In: Kunstforum: Talk Show der documenta 6
Stichwortgeber: Georg Jappe
On the occasion of: «Orphan Papers», eine Ausstellung der Stiftung Sitterwerk
Curated by: Izet Sheshivari and Boabooks, 2017
ISBN: 978-2-9400409-82-2

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Set of 18 postcards

Photos: Katalin Deér
Design: István Scheibler
2019
DIN A6, color

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«Feuer & Flamme—die Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen»
Iwan Schumacher dedicated this film to the craft of art casting. He accompanied the production of artworks in the Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen over ten years. The documentary film «Feuer und Flamme» (Fire and Flame) was created from the filmic material.

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Film 86 min, Format 16:9, Audio 5.1 & 2.0
Original version: Swiss German, English, Chinese
Subtitles: German, French, English, Italien, Chinese