Rémy Zaugg, typographic works 1986–2005
About Death II, 5. 1998–2002/2005.
Swiss painter Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) is well-known for the text images he made from the second half of the 1980s until his death, assisted by his wife, Michèle Zaugg-Röthlisberger. The screen-printed words or phrases are composed in Adrian Frutiger’s Univers 85.
Un Lieu, from the “Notes, Études” series, 1985–88.
Die Gründung die Begründung der Grund (für ein Bild) die Grundierung, 1986/87.
Schau, Du bist blind, 1991.
Schau, ich bin blind, schau, 1997.
About Blindness Nr. 18, 1998/99.
About Blindness Nr. 23, 1998/99.
Neue Bilder 48d, Ich, ich sehe Dich, 1998.
Look/I am/Blind/Look (Nr 16), 1998/99.
De la cécité, No 31, 1994–2001.
GRAUW / BEELD / BLIND, 1996. Aquatint edition of a mural.
“Grauw Beeld Blind by Rémy Zaugg was painted as a mural on this building for the travaux publique project in 1996. Textual works of art have been created throughout the city for this exhibition of the van Abbe museum and Peninsula foundation.”
Aber ich die Welt ich sehe Dich, 1994.
Not Here, 1995.
Two paintings from the series I, myself, 2002/03 “comprising 18 pale grey text-paintings in different sizes”.
View from the exhibition of the I, myself series at Galerie Nordenhake.
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A few years after Zaugg’s death, Claude Stadelmann published Vice/Versa, a documentary portrait of the artist. According to the “jlggbblog” his wife Michèle Röthlisberger-Zaugg explains in the documentary that she handles the typography of Zaugg’s works: “the space between two letters, I tell myself that it is too big, I tell myself that it is too small, never sure.”
Below a small fragment from Vice/Versa that shows Zaugg at work.