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CLAUDIO MOSER

Born in 1959, in Aarau, Switzerland. He lives and works in Geneva. In 1984 he graduated from the Ecole supérieure d'art Visuel in Genève. His photographs often address relationships between past and present as embedded within architecture and landscape. In Moser’s work, nothing is clearly formulated and no viewpoint is specific or obvious.

“Claudio’s works belong to those artistic works where, for instance, a father might be inclined to make the statement that his child would also have been able to do that in this way. And nonetheless – nobody but Claudio creates these photographs. One often looks at the photographs from that. That’s one thing. But there exists another dimension, one begins to enter the picture gradually and wonders what is there and what isn’t, what could be there. What fascinates me about Claudio’s art is that there exist things in the depth that the picture doesn’t show and one automatically starts to ponder, what more the creator might have seen there. There exists a presence that exceeds the purely imaginary present.

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Claudio makes the effort to photograph certain things at all. I believe that earlier I’ve passed by many of these things without noticing them. This is less the case today, because I know Claudio’s photos. I can explain it with an example. Sometime ago was at Claudio’s studio and had a look at his photographs. Shortly after that I traveled to Abu Dhabi and was in a construction site there, where there were cloths hanging on the scaffolding – very similar to ones in one of the Claudio’s photos. I’ve probably seen them before but never noticed in that way. And Claudio is an eye-opener there. One acquires a keen perception by this training. And also a greater depth of focus. There are very many of Claudio’s pictures which function in layers. One can look onto these layers as a voyeur. One acquires a notion that there is still something to be discovered.”

extract from an interview with Harry Gugger and Claudio Moser by Helen Hirsch

published in the exhibition catalogue Your Shirt on My Chair: Claudio Moser inszeniert von Harry Gugger,

Kunstmuseum Thun, 2009

Selected solo exhibitions:

2009 ready or not, Skopia Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

2007 for Henry Rousseau, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany

2006 pas deux pas, Skopia Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

2004 ici, Monitorarbeiten und Superachtprojektionen, TWEAKLAB, Basel, Switzerland

2002 j’ai rien dit, Skopia Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

Walk On, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2001 nowhere near far enough, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland

2000 Skopia art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

Museum zum Allerheiligen, Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

1999 Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany

Selected group exhibitions:

2008 Fading Away, Skopia Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

2007 Weltbilder 2, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland

2005 Tableaux – écrans, Commissariat de Catherine Perret, Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France & Brussels, Belgium

Idyllisch – von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

2004 Metamorph, 9 International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy

2003 Not Neutral, Contemporary Swiss Photography, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, USA

2002 Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus der Schweiz, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany