Pipilotti Rist was born on June 21, 1962 In Rheintal, Switzerland. She studied at at the Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna through 1986. She later studied video at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. She was featured in the Venice Biennale in 1997 and was awarded the Premio 2000 Prize. She currently lives and works in Zurich and Los Angeles.
She is known for her video and audio installations that utilize painting, language, music, movememt, flowing pictures, poetry, and commotion. She has been quoted saying "Arts task is to contribute to evolution, to encourage the mind, to guarantee a detached view of social changes, to conjure up positive energies, to create seriousness, to reconcile reason and instinct, to research possibilities and to destroy cliches and prejudices." Her work has been shown in museums and festivals in Europe, Japan, and the US. In 2000, the Public Art Fund NY commission showed Rist's "Open My Glad" on a big screen in Times Square. She also showed at the Musee' d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1999, the Tramway, Glasgow in 2001, the Centraal Museum in Utrect in 2001, the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki in 2003, and the MoMA in New York in 2008.
Her work "blurs the boundaries between visual art and popular culture and explore the unfamiliar in the every day. Her lush, seductive images recruit the idiom of commercial advertising and music videos to create a highly individual artist language informed by her past in a music band and as a set designer." Some of her video art include "I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much" 1996, "Yoghurt On Skin, Velvet On TV" 1995, "Sip My Ocean" 1996, and "Remake of the Weekend" 1998. Some of Rist's early films were shot on super 8 film and contained alterations in their colors, speed, and sound covering issues of gender, sexuality, and the human body. Her first feature length film titled "Pepperminta" that was just completed this year. Here is a snippet from the English translation of "Pepperminta"'s synopsis.
"Peppeminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman's best friends and strawberries are her pets. She knows the most amazing remedies to free people of their fears. Pepperminta's wish is for everyone to see the world in her favorite colors. Werven (Sven Pippig), a young plump and shy man yet whose sex appeal Pepperminta finds highly attractive, and the beautiful Edna (Sabine Timoteo), who talks to tulips, join her on her passionate mission. These three musketeers of a different kind set out to fight for a more human world. Wherever the gang appears, everything is turned upside down and people's lives are transformed int he most miraculous and wondrous of ways."
"Pepperminta's" Synopsis Page
Artist Website
Luhring Augustine Website
MoMA Article on Rist
Wiki Page for Rist
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