Reto Boller (* 1966, Zurich, lives in Zurich) seeks to cross borders in his work. Starting with experimental painting, which challenged the friction with the traditional medium, the artist increasingly developed his work in space. Today he is known for objects and installations in which materials and everyday objects in unintended combinations claim to be a matter of course. They speak of figuration and abstraction, of body and dissolution, of conventions of art and perception and always build a bridge to the current world.
In a radical gesture, Boller divides the Kunsthalle Arbon into two zones: an implied “white cube” and a dim storage room. The shadowy existence of the objects remaining here is answered by bright white as a projection surface and space of possibility. This room is “prêt-à-porter” - “ready to wear” whatever the audience sends in their minds to this open-ended “catwalk”. Or does the title rather appeal to us, who support the game of showing and hiding, of staging and dissolving?
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