Crockerland Collages // 2008
Crockerland Collages // 2008
Crockerland Collages // 2008
Crockerland Collages // 2008
Crockerland Collages // 2008
Crockerland Collages // 2008
Crockerland Collages // 2008
Crockerland Collages // 2008
Crockerland Collages // 2008
huber.huber
* 1975 in Münsterlingen Thurgau, leben und arbeiten in Zürich.
The collage works of huber.huber are based on collected books and magazines. Reto and Markus Huber experiment with detached elements and search for new multilayered compositions and ambivalent images. Ein Fundus an gesammelten Büchern und Zeitschriften bildet den Hintergrund der Collagearbeiten von huber.huber. Reto und Markus Huber experimentieren mit herausgelösten Elementen und suchen nach neuen vielschichtigen Kompositionen und ambivalenten Bildern. Their works exhibit dramatic irony and und inscrutability as well as symbolism and metaphor. Crocker Land (2008) is a series of 23 drawn from the image material of as many antique travel and adventure books. Each collage of the series arranges the imagery of one book into a new, fictional world with its own surreal rules. The recompositions play with the naïve fascination with foreign cultures which are the object of these adventure books published between 1925 and 1966. At the same time this naïveté of this enthusiasm is ironically foiled. By combining images from different perspectives and of different scales huber.huber invent, with every image, a new imaginary culture with at times bizarre customs and rituals.
huber.huber (Markus and Reto Huber)
Since they graduated from the University for Design and Art in Zurich (now ZHdK) in 2005, the twin brothers Markus and Reto Huber (*1975 Münsterlingen), have been working together under the label huber.huber.
Over the past years, huber.huber have attracted attention chiefly with their collages and drawings, but also with sculptural works and installations.
The main themes of their work circle around the ambivalent relation between civilization and nature. huber.huber deal with current social questions. Hope, fears, belief and the failure of humanity become a central topic. Their surprising juxtaposition and their special irony and oddity makes them convincing. In the putative idyll the abyss always lurks.
huber.huber's multilayered work has been shown in a variety of galleries and a number of group exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad. With „Vor der Vergangenheit“ (Before the Past) in 2008 the Kunsthaus Glarus dedicated the first sizable institutional solo exhibition to huber.huber. This was followed in 2009 with a further large solo exhibition under the title „I cani non hanno anima“ (Dogs Do Not Have A Soul) at the Cantonal Art Museum Lugano.
2005 they received a studio scholarship in New York by the Municipality of Zurich. 2006 they won the «Kulturpreis Julius Baer», 2007 the sponsorship aware of the UBS Culture Foundation. In 2009 they were nominated for the prestigious Vordemberge-Gildewart Preis.