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The present monograph Work, Life, Balance focuses on artistic works by David Renggli from 2006 until today, with no claim to the completeness of a list of works, but most certainly with respect for the striking heterogeneity inherent to the oeuvre of the Swiss artist and musician. It offers a broad overview of the oeuvre and provides informative impres­sions of the slyly dandy-like self-stagings of the artist. Should his works be understood merely as odes to hedonism? Not at all! David Renggli revives highly ­diverse cliches of adamant desire and idyllic ­imaginings, only to confront them in a subtle, ­sensitive manner with their own deconstructions. With a vigorous wink of the eyes, he adopts an ­ironical perspective with regard to ideals of beauty and the cult of physical allure, not hesitating to ­critique the urge to self-optimisation and the ­egocentricity of self-infatuation. As a Neo-Dadaist, David Renggli remains unswervingly ­devoted to the free play of art and also of music: ""My favourite instrument? Snare drum.""

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Clara Guislain, French art critic, studied art history and is currently working on her doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris. She is a research assistant at the University of Aix-Marseille. Her academic work focuses on post-conceptualist art in Los Angeles since 2000, for which she has published extensively in academic contexts. Since 2020 she has also been working on projects for institutions and galleries, most recently for the Galerie Valentin in Paris. She regularly publishes on contemporary art in catalogs and magazines, and has curated several group exhibitions in Parisian galleries. Andreas Baur worked in Hamburg for the Deichtorhallen, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Kunsthaus; from 1998-2001 he was appointed founding director of Kunsthaus Baselland in Muttenz near Basel; since April 2001 he has been director of Villa Merkel, galleries of the city of Esslingen am Neckar. There he has supervised projects with Mark Dion, Darren Almond, Daniela Keiser, Willie Doherty, Emily Jacir, Hamish Fulton, Lois Weinberger, Melanie Smith and others, conceived thematic group exhibitions and established the format Good Space - political, aesthetic and urban spaces. Adam Jasper is a research assistant in the chair of Professor Philip Ursprung at ETH Zurich. He is editor of the gta papers, co-editor of Cabinet Magazine and writes regularly for Artforum and other art magazines. He recently curated the central installation, Priests and Programmers, for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial. He is also editor of House Tour: Views of the Unfurnished Interior at Park Books, catalogue of the Swiss Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, and holds a PhD from the Power Institute, University of Sydney.

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