Carlo Borer Explained

Carlo Borer (born March 23, 1961, in Solothurn) is a Swiss artist and designer.^[1]

Works

Carlo Borer is deliberately autodidact as an artist. He has been working freelance since 1981, beginning with figurative paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional works made of polyester and electrical light. Since 1991, he has been building objects out of stainless steel or aluminum. And in 1999, he started using 3D computer graphics to design, develop, and construct sculptures, installations, furniture and utilitarian objects, such as espresso machines, ventilators, and mailboxes.^[2] A laser is used to cut the forms out of the sheet metal, which are then rounded off and welded. Borer refers to works that have come about like this as Transformers, Loops, and Clouds.^[3] Though Borer takes his inspirations for his No Readymades and his Spaceships from pieces he has found, nevertheless, he creates the works as complex forms in virtual reality by means of CAD systems that have been further developed especially for this.^[4]

Carlo Borer lives in Wanzwil, and maintains his studio in Zuchwil.

Selected exhibitions

1990 : Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn
1997 : BHG Gallery, Los Angeles – Sinking Cities
2004 : Stadt Solothurn - The Big Loop
2009 : 4.th Swiss Triennial Festival of Sculpture, Bad RagARTz in Bad Ragaz and Vaduz^[5]
2010 : art station, Zurich – 2structures
2010 : Stiftung SkulptUrschweiz, Ennetbürgen-Luzern
2010 : BeGe Galerien, Ulm
2010 : Nord Art in Büdelsdorf^[6]
2011 : Nord Art in Büdelsdorf^[7]
2011 : Kulturforum Würth Chur, Chur – Thinking Shape

Commissions visible in public

2002 : Object No. 333, Saint-Blaise NE,^[8]
2007 : Object No. 397, Ennetbüren-Luzern ^[9]
2009 : Object No. 401, Hilti Foundation, Schaan
2011 : Object No. 370, Kulturforum Würth Chur ^[10]

Selected literature

Catalogue Werkjahrbeiträge des Kantons Solothurn (1989) - Kantonales Kuratorium für Kulturförderung, Solothurn
KVS Cultura, Ittigen, Issue 1 (1991)
Peculiar Geometries, (Sculpture Vol. 27 No. 10, 2008): article by Peter Lodermeyer ^[11]
Kunst Vol. 4 (2011) ^[12]

References

Web site: Houses of Art . 2011-12-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120426062553/http://www.housesofart.com/en/contemporary_art/CarloBorer.html . 2012-04-26 . dead .
http://www.silive.com/homegarden/interiordesign/index.ssf/2009/05/diminutive_fan_blows_toward_th.html article and illustration
http://www.likeyou.com/en/node/18172 Clouds by Carlo Borer
http://www.frankpages.com/sculpture/borer-carlo/ Gallery Frank Pages
http://www.badragartz.ch/upload/en/EasyGallery/41/Borer%20Carlo.jpg Sculpture by Carlo Borer
http://www.kunstwerk-carlshuette.de/de/files/172Borer.pdf transformer 386
http://www.kunstwerk-carlshuette.de/de/files/Borer_166.pdf stainless steel 408
http://www.saint-blaise.ch/generalSearch.asp/6-3-909-5003-48-1-1000-10-1/7-2-1-5003-5032-10-0-sculpture-1-0/ Object No. 333
http://www.skulpturschweiz.ch/index.cfm?srv=cms&rub=2&srub=2&prub=2&id=50 Object No.397
http://www.e.wurth-international.com/platform/apps/content/index.asp?MenuID=1100&ID=3064&Menu=2&Item=5.2.10 Exhibition Thinking Shape
Web site: Article: Carlo Borer . 2011-12-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111115221134/http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag08/dec_08/borer/borer.shtml . 2011-11-15 . dead .
http://issuu.com/mganti/docs/kunstbuch_2011_66-90_low?mode=embed&documentId=80139762-7f71-2abe-afd2-553e399c9112&layout=grey magazine Kunst - Graubünden und Liechtenstein, pages 45 - 48