Christoph Büchel - Art Unlimited 2007

Simply Botiful is the installation by Swiss artist Christoph Büchel and the cramped, creepy, unsettling work is an alternative reality where viewers can walk from room to room to find themselves climbing into the back of a lorry, squeezing around piles of obsolete cameras and tiptoeing through an abandoned sweat shop, filled with sewing machines that seem ot have only been humming and singing in unison moments before.What else are you likely to see? Well, you'll have to go along and experience it yourself. The scenarios and settings Buchel have created are intended to provoke deep, unsettling feelings in the viewer and you've got to bring your own paranoias, fears and prejudices to the exhibition.
Buchel likes to force his audience into an uneasy complicity with the sleaziness, discomfort and unsettling scenarios he creates - as a paying visitor, you are somehow responsible for what you are walking through. Sometimes you are a victim at the mercy of the environment Buchel puts up around you, sometimes you are a voyeur onto someone else's misery - and we can't say which is worse. The effect is to critique and encourage criticism of existing institutes and political agendas - whether walking around a pile of abandoned fridges can achieve that is up to the audience members resisting or allowing Buchel's

Foto:Torben Zenth

Ai Weiwei (CN), Carl Andre (US), Kutlug Ataman (TR), Bluesoup Group (RU), Mel Bochner (US), Alighiero e Boetti (IT), Mathieu Briand (FR), Christoph Büchel (CH), Daniel Buren (FR), Alexander Calder (US), Cao Fei (CN), Bruce Conner (US), Sebastian Diaz Morales (AR), Omer Fast (IL), Claire Fontaine (FR), Carlos Garaicoa (CU), Katharina Grosse (DE), Kristjan Gudmunsson (IS), William Hunt (GB), Chris Johanson (US), San Keller (CH), Matts Leiderstam (SE), Ann Lislegaard, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (MX), Marepe (BR), Allan McCollum (US), Tomas Saraceno (AR), Superflex, Gert & Uwe Tobias (RO), Tatiana Trouvé (IT), Clare Woods (GB), a.o.

Art | 38 | Basel - Art Unlimited

11. juni - 17. juni 2007

Messezentrum Basel

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Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation


Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation		Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation

Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation		Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation

Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation


Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation		Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation

Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation		Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation

Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation		Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation

Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation

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Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation		Christoph Büchel: Unplugged (Simply Botiful), 2006/07. dimensions variable installation

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