roman signer

SCULPTURE IN EXPLOSION

Legendary Swiss artist Roman Signer has spent over four decades staging ephemeral, absurd, explosive actions that expand the boundaries of sculpture and performance. Known for his experiments with time, gravity, and matter, Signer creates unique analog moments that cannot be repeated or replicated — works that exist only in the instant of their explosion or transformation.

Signer’s use of explosives is not sensationalist but sculptural. He choreographs collisions between objects and natural forces — wind, water, fire — embracing risk, accident, and the physicality of the real. In a digital age obsessed with simulation and control, his work is defiantly analog.

By surrendering his body to danger and the unpredictability of materials, Signer reminds us what art loses when it abandons the tangible. His work captures time not as abstraction, but as something you feel and fear: an explosion, a fall, a burst. It is sculpture in…