Daniele Buetti
The media he works with includes photography, sculpture, drawing, sound, video and digital forms. He is professor at University of Fine Arts Munster where he has taught since 2004. He lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland and Münster, Germany.
Daniele Buetti
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- Born
- 1955
- Birthplace
- Fribourg, Switzerland
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- artist · university teacher · photographer
- Languages
- English
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The media he works with includes photography, sculpture, drawing, sound, video and digital forms. He is professor at University of Fine Arts Munster where he has taught since 2004. He lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland and Münster, Germany.
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Daniele Buetti (born 1955) is a Swiss artist, photographer and university teacher. The artist was born in Fribourg. Daniele Buetti worked for Academy of Fine Arts Münster.
Languages used include English. Works by the artist are held at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
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His work has been described as "an expression of world-weariness and the individual’s precarious existential orientation." In the 1990s Buetti's work served as a visual critiques of the consumption of beauty. This work often appropriated images of models and high-fashion consumer products from magazines that were pierced with a ballpoint pen. A monograph on his work, Daniele Buetti: it's all in the mind was published in 2014 by Hirmer Publishers. The volume includes essays by Buetti, Matthias Ulrich, Max Hollein, and Jane Michael. Buetti was born in Fribourg, Switzerland. Buetti's work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt and the Kunsthaus Wien. His work was the subject of a one-person show, Could a dream be enough, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia. His work was presented in a solo exhibition at the Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art in New York City. Buetti has also exhibited his work at Helmhaus Zurich where his installation, Auf allen Knien (On All Knees) was presented.
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• Born — 1955 • Birthplace — Fribourg, Switzerland
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Daniele Buetti is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation multimedia artist. Recorded as artist, university teacher and photographer.
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1955
Daniele Buetti was born on 17 November 1955.
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• Collection du F.R.A.C (Fond régional d’Art Contemporain, Provence-Alpes-côte d’Azur) • DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin • Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey • Fotomuseum Winterthur • Kunsthaus, Bregenz • Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University • Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich • Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne • Museum HausKonstruktiv, Zurich • ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst undMedientechnologie, Karlsruhe
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- 1.Daniele Buetti - Announcements. e-flux.
- 2.Buetti. Tichy Ocean.
- 3.Schirn Magazine. Daniele Buetti and the Models.
- 4.Buetti, Daniele. Daniele Buetti: it's all in the mind. Hirmer. 2014. 9783777422602.
- 5.Schirn Gallery. Daniel Buetti, It's All in the Mind.
- 6.Kunsthaus Wien. Pas de Deux.
- 7.Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia. Danielle Buetti. Could a dream be enough.
- 8.Swiss Institute. Daniel Buetti.
- 9.Schindler, Anna. Daniele Buetti HELMHAUS ZURICH. Artforum. 2003.
- 10.Daniele BUETTI 1956, Fribourg (Suisse).
- 11.Daimler Art Collection. Daniele Buetti Looking for Love (Christian Dior), 1997/2000.
- 12.The Elgiz Museum - An ever growing family collection in Istanbul: Daniel Buetti.
- 13.Fotomuseum Winterthur. Daniele Buetti: WHAT ABOUT MEMORIES.
- 14.Kunsthaus Bregenz. Lifestyle.
- 15.Art Facts. Collected artists.
- 16.Daniele Buetti.
- 17.Migros Museum. Daniele Buetti.
- 18.Musée de l'Elysée. Artists present in the Collection of the Musée de l'Elysée.
- 19.Museum Haus Konstruktiv. Daniele Buetti Oh boy oh boy VIII-A.
- 20.Daniele Buetti.
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