{"title":"Roman Signer","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoman Signer (born 1938, Appenzell, Switzerland) is a Swiss artist whose practice centres on actions, experiments and events involving physical forces — water, wind, fire, gravity, explosion — documented through film, photography and the objects and traces they leave behind. Working since the early 1970s, Signer has developed a body of work that occupies a space between sculpture, performance and scientific experiment, treating energy and duration as primary materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis actions are typically modest in scale and precisely observed: a kayak propelled by a rocket, a table lifted by a water jet, boots filled with gunpowder and detonated. The results are recorded rather than staged for the camera, and the documentation — film loops, photographs, annotated drawings — functions as both evidence and artwork. Objects used in or produced by the actions are retained as sculptural residue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigner has exhibited internationally at major institutions including the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and Documenta. He represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 1999. His participation in \u003cem\u003eUnder Spaghetti Junction\u003c\/em\u003e (Fine Rats International, Birmingham, 1993) — an exhibition held beneath the M6 motorway interchange — placed his practice within a network of artist-led and unconventional exhibition contexts operating outside institutional structures in the early 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fine-rats-international-under-spaghetti-junction-roman-signer-birmingham-1993","title":"FINE RATS INTERNATIONAL — Under Spaghetti Junction [Roman Signer et al.]. Birmingham, 1993","description":"\u003cp\u003eGravelly Hill Interchange, Birmingham, 3–4 September 1993, 9 pm–midnight. Exhibition invitation. Published by Fine Rats International. 8 × 10.5 cm. Black-and-yellow offset print on card, retained in a clear plastic pouch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtists: Bram Ångström, Francis Gomila, Zbigniew Karkowski, Colin Pearce, Mark Renn, Roman Signer, Ivan Smith, Barbara Van Loon and Maria Vedder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. General toning, minor handling and light edge wear to the invitation. The plastic pouch is rubbed, creased and marked, with small applied labels and adhesive remnants. Dust, loose debris and a dead fly remain trapped inside its lower section. Their point of entry is unknown; the pouch has been retained as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFine Rats International developed exhibitions outside conventional gallery spaces across Birmingham and the West Midlands. \u003cem\u003eUnder Spaghetti Junction\u003c\/em\u003e occupied the infrastructure beneath the M6 motorway interchange for two nights in September 1993, presenting temporary installations and actions within a site defined by roads, tunnels, canals and industrial movement. The project was returned to public view in 2015 when its unfinished documentary was included in \u003cem\u003eBirmingham Show\u003c\/em\u003e at Eastside Projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation reduces the event to the information required for entry: two dates, three nocturnal hours, free admission, an approach through Electric Avenue and an A–Z reference. An aerial view identifies the system above. The artist list occupies the other side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA copy of \u003cem\u003eUnder Spaghetti Junction\u003c\/em\u003e was retained in the Colin de Land and Pat Hearn Library, formed from the personal and working libraries of Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts. Now held by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, the collection records printed material distributed through gallery, artist-led, underground and unconventional channels. The invitation appears in its published-material inventory alongside the wider circulation of the two New York galleries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis copy has continued to gather material after the exhibition ended. Card, pouch, labels, dust and insect remain held together as one surviving unit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fine Rats International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53994229727570,"sku":"FINERATS-SPAGHETTI-INV-1993","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Aanfstrom_Bram._Gomila_Francis._Pearce_Colin._Renn_Mark._Singer_Roman._Smith_Ivan._Van_Loon_Barbara._Vedder_Maria._Show_invite_Under_Spaghetti_Junction_._1993.jpg?v=1783984674"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/roman-signer.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}