Harry Schaffer

For other people with similar names, see Harry Shaffer (disambiguation).

Harry Schaffer (born 1963 in Chur, Switzerland) is a Swiss artist and interior architect, who lives and works in Basel.

Early life and education

Schaffer grew up in Allschwil and Olten, Switzerland.

He graduated in 1983 and attended thereafter Basel art school and served an apprenticeship as an interior draftsman.

After several study trips to the United States, he studied at the Academy of Arts of Basel, where he graduated with a Master of Design I Art & Innovation.

Career

Schaffer today owns a studio for interior architecture and a planning company for sustainable projects in Basel.

Schaffer's art works are positioned within the themes of minimal art and land art.

For many years he has also been collaborating with the German-French artist Wolf Warnke.

His main topics are the circle and the square, to which he modulates and experiments in different sizes and materials in various places around the world.

His scale of works range from short interventions with natural materials to sculptures out of steel or granite. He examines strongly the environment and the proportion of the golden section, which appear regularly in his works.

Personal life

Schaffer is a father of three daughters.

Works

  • Copper Circle. Roveredo (CH), 2018.
  • Big Circle. Roveredo (CH), 2017.
  • Barbed Circle. Venice (IT), 2017.[1]
  • Red Cube. Roveredo (CH), 2016.
  • Pyromide. Jamel (DE), 2016.[2][3][4]
  • Man Circle. Roveredo (CH), 2016.
  • Rustico Circle. Roveredo (CH), 2016.
  • Desert Circle. Wonder Valley (USA), 2015.
  • Floating Cube. Arlesheim (CH), 2015.
  • Die Dekonstruktion der Perspektive. Reillane (F) 2015.
  • Die Dekonstruktion des Nichts. Arlesheim (CH), 2015.
  • from chaos to order. Arlesheim (CH), 2015.
  • two circles. Arlesheim CH 2015
  • Dehors. Olten (CH), 2012.
  • OPO-LEGNO. LandArtinstallation. Opole (PL), 2012.
  • Focus. Arlesheim (CH), 2015.
  • Kunst auf der Alp. Laax (CH), 2011.
  • Humus Park. Pordenone (IT), 2010.
  • Le nid. Reillanne (F), 2004.
  • 3 Cubes en Rouge coquelicot. Reillanne (F) 2002.
  • Projekt Le pont de Wattwiller. Wattwiler (F), 2001.
  • Sculpture for a porcellaine-company (CH), 1999.
  • Steinstele. Lötschental (CH), 1999.
  • Cinq colonnes. Reillanne (F), 1999.
  • Baumzauber. Urban-artproject Basel (CH), 1998/1999.
  • Mongolpierre. Reillanne (F), 1998.
  • trou du Mistral. Reillanne (F), 1997.[5]
  • 3 Sisters. Arlesheim (CH), 1995.

Literature and publications

  • PERSONAL STRUCTURES Open Borders, Palazzo Mora. Palazzo Bembo Giardini Marinaressa, ISBN 978-90-826559-1-9[6]
  • Chris van Uffelen: 500 X ART IN PUBLIC. Edit: Braun. 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-098-8.

Exhibitions

  • 2017: Barbed Circle, in Venedig (IT)[7]
  • 2016: PYROMIDE, in Jamel (DE)[8][3]
  • 2016: OpenArt, in Roveredo (CH)[9][10]
  • 2015: OpenArt, in Roveredo (CH)
  • 2015: FLOATING CUBE, in der Ermitage in Arlesheim (CH)[11][12]
  • 2014: Intervention Kunst im Bau, in Arlesheim (CH)
  • 2012: Participation at international LandArt Meeting (PL)
  • 2012: Participation at Exhibition "DEHORS" – Kunst im Wald, in Olten (CH)
  • 2012: FOCUS Granitplastik in Arlesheim (CH)
  • 2011: Group-exhibition in Schönenwerd (CH)
  • 2010: Participation at international LandArt Meeting in Pordenone (IT)[13]
  • 2009: deschart an der Igeho, Messe Basel (CH)
  • 2009: Intervention "Frames" im Park "Sculpture at Schoenthal" Langenbruck (CH)
  • 2008: Participation at international " LandArt-meeting Pordenone" (IT)
  • 2006: Participation at international "LandArt-Festival Grindelwald" (CH)
  • 2005: Participation at international " LandArt-Festival Basel" (CH)
  • 2001: Participation at international " Fête de l'eau ", Skulpturenausstellung in Wattwiller (F)
  • 1998: Project Basel Baumzauber (CH)
  • 1993–2008: Several LandArt-Projects in Provence, in collaboration with the German-French artist Wolf Warnke: Group-exhibitions «L'art de Mai» in Reillanne F

See also

References

  1. ^ "Barbed Circle". 6 May 2017. Archived from the original on 22 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  2. ^ Mahnmal in Jamel setzt Zeichen gegen Rechts
  3. ^ a b Pyromide gegen rechten Hass.
  4. ^ "Pyromide erinnert an Brand". Archived from the original on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  5. ^ Chris van Uffelen: 500 X ART IN PUBLIC. Hrsg.: Braun. 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-098-8.
  6. ^ "Personal Structures Open Borders" (PDF). Retrieved 1 June 2017.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Barbed Circle - Isola di Sanservolo". 6 May 2017. Archived from the original on 22 May 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  8. ^ "Skulptur gegen Fremdenhass aus den Resten der abgebrannten Scheune im "Nazidorf" Jamel". URBANSHIT (in German). 30 June 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  9. ^ "openArt" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  10. ^ svizzera, RSI Radiotelevisione (19 August 2016). "Open Art". rsi (in Italian). Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  11. ^ "Floating Cube Ausstellung". bz Basel (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  12. ^ www.update.ch, update AG. "Wochenblatt Birseck / Dorneck, Schwarzbubenland / Laufental: Grosser Tag für die Ermitage". www.wochenblatt.ch (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  13. ^ "Humus Park: International Land Art Meeting". eARTh. 14 May 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

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