Christoph Rütimann awarded with the Willy Reber Art Prize 2024

Mai 36 Galerie is pleased to announce that Christoph Rütimann is the winner of the Willy Reber Art Prize 2024.⁠ 

Award Ceremony⁠ 

Thursday, Nov 07 at 6 PM⁠ 

Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur

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The Willy Reber Art Prize is awarded, every two years, to artists living in Switzerland in the fields of painting, sculpture, graphics and ceramics. They must have distinguished themselves through a complete body of work or a longer period of creative work.

In 1983, whilst running along the borderline of a field of rape and a fallow field towards the woods, Christoph Rütimann repeatedly threw his camera in the air and propelled it always higher yet towards the sky. As the automatic release was activated, the camera took pictures of every flight so that chance decided at what point of the trajectory the images would be captured. The brown field, the rich yellow color of the oil seed rape, the green wooded horizon and the deep blue of the cloudless sky are the spatial co-ordinates produced by the trajectories of the repeated throwing motion whereas the exact interval of the delay timer, as well as the approximate interval in between throws are determined by gravitation and the runner’s strength and speed. As a result, all intervals are superimposed. Both the position of the camera in the moment of being released as well as the focus of the whirling camera remain completely random.⁠ ⁠