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Skef's crash course on video artist Pipilotti Rist. See her visually luxurious and shamelessly beautiful pieces, learn about her work and get advice on buying or renting a real Pipilotti Rist.
Let me ... introduce you!
Over the last two decades Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist has generated a vast body of work in diverse media, from video, installation and design to sound and written projects.
Slick and superficial, corrupted and clean, Rist's art erupts in unbridled and indulgent sensorial pleasure.
The rise and rise of Pipilotti Rist
A short biography
1962 Born in Rheintal, Switzerland.1982-1986 Studies of commercial art, illustration and photography at the Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria.
Since 1984 she works with Performance and Pop as co-founder of the female band Les Reines Prochaines.
1986-1988 Studies of audio visual communications (video) at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland.
Since 1988 Pipilotti Rist became internationally successful with her videotapes and installation work.
In 2005 she was the Swiss representative to the 51st Venice Biennale.
Pictures of her work for the Venice Biennale | Flickr
Pipilotti Rist's contribution to the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) provided the exhibition's most decadent art experience, with projections on the ceiling of baroque Chiesa di San Stae sweeping the viewer into the soaring dreamscape of her work.
Want to see her work? Right now?
Visit these exhibitions of her work.
- Kanazawa, Japan
- You can see the installation 'You Renew You' at the 21st Century Museum of Modern Art in Kanazawa, Japan.
- Leon, Spain
- MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, marks the Spanish comeback of Pipilotti Rist with four video installations and a music compilation disc
- Utrecht, The Netherlands
- The Centraal Museum in Utrecht is showing the installation 'Expecting' in a chapel.
- Tallinn, Estonia
- The video 'Ever Is Over All' is shown at the Art Museum of Estonia. It is part of 'Shiftscale', the largest international contemporary art exhibition ever to be organised in Estonia.
- In october: Houston, U.S.A.
- This exhibition is the first comprehensive U.S. survey of her work in video. The exhibition presents two new video installations and a feature film, as well as a selection of significant works spanning her entire career, such as the seminal videos I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much (1986), Sip My Ocean (1995), and Ever is Over All (1997).
Let me ... introduce you some more
- Homo sapiens sapiens
- More beautiful pictures of 'Homo sapiens sapiens', the work Rist made for the 51st Venice Biennale.
- Self-possessed, stylish, and smart
- "Pipilotti Rist is the kind of artist you can get a big crush on. Her work wills you into its charm, and so does she. Self-possessed, stylish, and smart, she seems at one with the lush and enchanting worlds she creates in her media extravaganzas ..." (An interview by Jane Harris)
- A strong link to the flow of water and rotation
- "Water is a recurring theme in the art of Pipilotti Rist, where the most palpable references are to be found in titles like Selfless in the Lava Bath, Sea of Coffee and Sip My Ocean." (By Anna Orrghen)
- Swiss bliss
- A review in the Village Voice: "Drifting through Rist's trippy, trance-inducing, overdone pleasure dome of an installation at Luhring Augustine-involving no less than 15 video projections, many of them emanating from or appearing on pieces of furniture-is like reading Virginia Woolf." (By Jerry Saltz)
- Selected press
- A fine selection of articles and reviews.
Look at these webversions of her early work
Just to give you an idea.
- Entslastlungen
- 1988, 8 minutes , PAL, sound, colour
Collection: Centre pour l'image contemporaine, St Gervais Geneva (Switzerland) - You Called Me Jacky
- 1990, 4 minutes, PAL, sound, colour
Collection: Centre pour l'image contemporaine, St Gervais Geneva (Switzerland) - Pickelporno
- 1992, 12 minutes , PAL, sound, color
Collection: Centre pour l'image contemporaine, St Gervais Geneva (Switzerland)
Ever is over all, my favorite work
And her most famous work, too.
Pipilotti Rist is best known for her double video projection 'Ever is over all', 1997, (photo) which is set to mesmerizing music composed by Anders Guggisberg.One image features a young woman wearing a light blue dress and red shoes; she carries a flower called a red-hot poker that has been cast in metal and uses it to smash the windows of cars parked along her path. That image is juxtaposed with a video featuring a garden of red-hot pokers, a swirling abstraction of enlarged stalks and colourful blossoms. (Source: Art Now)
As seen on MTV?
She gets that a lot.
Rist's combinations of strong soundtracks and vibrant moving images has led to her work being compared to music videos.Many of the video pieces, including 'Sip my ocean', 1996, and 'I'm not the girl who misses much', 1986, make direct references to popular music and the genre of music videos, recasting songs by Chris Isaak and John Lennon respectively. (Source: Art Now)
Spaces in which to view videos
Her other work: installations.
In addition to making videos, Rist constructs spaces in which to view them. 'Das Zimmer', 1994, (photo) includes an oversized red leather sofa and a television featuring a selection of her videos. A large-scale remote control labelled 'Pipi TV' allows viewers to choose the videos they watch.'Himalaya Goldsteins Stube, 1997-99, approximates the playful ambience of a young woman's apartment. Monitors and projectors are inset into walls and furniture so that moving images appear on the sofas, chairs, lampshades and tables. Like the pervasive tune in 'Ever is over all', the piece's haunting melody adds to the overall ambience and engaging experience of the installation. Viewers are invited to make themselves at home, sit on the furniture, wander around the rooms and watch her videos. (Source: Art Now)
Get yourself a real Pipilotti Rist!
- Shop for Rist at an online gallery
- For sale are (among others) these pieces: 'Unfrisiert mit Schneeblumen', 'Mother, Son & The Holy Garden', 'Herbstzeitlose (Saffron Flower or Fall Time Less)' and 'The Help (Edition for Parkett 71)'.
- Pickelporno
- About a journey right behind and in front of the eyelids. (Pimple Porno, 1992, 12' min)
- Als der Bruder meiner Mutter geboren wurde, duftete es nach wilden Birnenblueten vor dem braungebrannten Sims
- About a birth in the mountains. (When My Mother's Brother Was Born It Smelled Like Wild Pear Blossoms in Front of the Brown-burnt Sill,1992, 4' min)
- Blutclip
- The video is for the party for the first menstruation and for the wonder of life. (Bloodclip, 1993, 2`50 min)
- I`m a Victim Of This Song
- The work is an audiovisual poem (how Rist calls all of her single channel tapes) and is mainly shot in a pub in Vienna were people play cards and read books. (1995, 5' min)
Books by Pipilotti Rist | Amazon
Pepperminta Homo sapiens sapiens: Boxa ludens (German Edition)
Amazon Price: $45.00 (as of 07/13/2009) 
Pipilotti Rist: Apricots along the Streets
Amazon Price: $34.95 (as of 07/13/2009)
Himalaya: 50 Kg Nicht Durchtrainiert
Amazon Price: (as of 07/13/2009)
Books about Pipilotti Rist | Amazon
Pipilotti Rist (Contemporary Artists Series)
Amazon Price: $27.55 (as of 07/13/2009)
Outer and Inner Space: Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Neshat, Jane and Louise Wilson, and the History of Video Art
Amazon Price: (as of 07/13/2009)
Nicht nur Koerper: Kunstlerinnen im Gesprach (German Edition)
Amazon Price: (as of 07/13/2009)
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