Hans Danuser is among the foremost contemporary Swiss photographers. Peter Zumthor is an equally celebrated Swiss architect. Seeing Zumthor represents a unique collaboration of their distinguished artistic visions: Danuser's images of the buildings created by Zumthor are photographs that comment equally on the art of photography and the art of architecture.
More than twenty years ago, in a milestone event of twentieth-century architectural photography, Danuser photographed, at Zumthor's invitation, two buildings: the protective structure built for archaeological excavations in Chur and St. Benedict's Chapel in Sumvitg. When first shown in exhibition, those photos ignited a lively debate that has been revived with a recent exhibition of Danuser's photographs of Zumthor's most famous work, the spa at Therme Vals. Seeing Zumthor collects these three important series of Danuser's pictures and includes essays by leading art historians exploring the relationship between the two seemingly different disciplines or architecture and photography.
Hans Danuser, born 1953 in Chur, Switzerland, is one of the pioneers of contemporary photography. His work has been shown in important exhibitions both in Switzerland and abroad. He has been invited to participate in the Venice Biennale, the Lyon Biennial, and other international events and has received numerous awards, including the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer Prize, the Manor Art Prize, and the Cultural Achievement Award of the canton of Grisons. Work on his art-in-architecture projects since 1992 at such sites as the University of Zurich, the Peter Merian Building in Basel in 1999, and the Psychiatric Clinic Beverin 2001
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