4. September 2024
Photo: Screenshot from “Eric Hattan & Nicolas Krupp: Construction Site with Trash and Petersburg Hanging” by VernissageTV
As part of the the Kunsttage Basel event in late August, Nicolas Krupp Gallery invited Swiss visual artist Eric Hatten to play around with the materials in the gallery's new exhibition space currently under construction. VernissageTV walked through the exhibition in one of its latest videos.
As described by Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Eric Hattan “questions places, architectures and situations of all-day-life through breaking regularities and subversing the assumed stasis of the world with playful irony.” He explores cities and their peripheries, discovering forms that then permeate is installations. In words that seem particularly fitting to his installation during Kunsttage Basel, “The phenomenological exploration of daily processes and random movements leads him often to construction sites,” where he creates temporary projects that are “evidence of an interest in inverting the view on the familiar.” Likewise, the solo installation at Nicolas Krupp's gallery-under-construction lasted just three days — but was thankfully captured for perpetuity by VernissageTV.