Entering an installation by Vreni Spieser is a bedazzling
experience. Stunning color patterns and images cover the floors and sometimes even objects or walls.
The striking ornamentation creates an impressive and utterly transformed atmosphere within a space.
Wallpaper
patterns with hunting motifs, animals or psychedelic patterns are a familiar sight, but today
one
hardly encounters this density of ornamentation. The tightrope walk between art and kitsch is refreshing.
Almost immediately one starts to think: Maybe I should redecorate my apartment … But this time not with
that understated look but with the courage to do what I really want!
This
is naturally not the reaction that Vreni Spieser intends. She simply reflects on the history and use
of ornamentation and develops her own patterns in response to each specific space. INMYX spoke with
her about her work.
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Berlin
2007 © Vreni Spieser ©
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INMYX:
Your installations in different spaces amaze people. With your new project you will design the walls
in the stairwell of a printing company. How do you approach a project?
Vreni Spieser:
Well, the next project is something special. It is a commission for Thomi Wolfensberger, a printer with
whom I have worked together a lot. For the stairwell, he would actually like to have one of my existing
works, Wilde Tiere 2 (Wild Animals 2). It is an installation that I did last year
for the Museum of
Design and Applied Arts in Winterthur.
Exhibition
Installation: Wilde Tiere 2 (Wild Animals 2), Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Winterthur/Switzerland
© Vreni Spieser
Visitors
can color
in the wallpaper with markers, Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Winterthur/Switzerland © Vreni Spieser
Museum
of Applied Arts and Design, Winterthur/Switzerland
© Vreni Spieser
In
the meantime, we have been thinking about a different work. It is a design for a tablecloth for a garden
restaurant. The design is ten years old, but we are thinking about a new edition. I think it would be
exciting to develop this work more and adapt it for the stairwell, so that it also works in that space.
INMYX:
Different spaces influence your installations. How do you select them?
Spieser:
The choice of space generally depends on the exhibitions I am invited to take part in and commission
requests. For me, it is always a very emotional and atmospheric thing.
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Berlin 2007 © Vreni Spieser
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