Roman Signer – Night Cyclist

1998

This striking work by the celebrated Swiss artist Roman Signer is a C-print, lacquered and mounted on an aluminium plate, capturing one of his conceptual interventions with characteristic simplicity and kinetic tension. Created in 1998, in Dresden Germany, the image evokes Signer’s longstanding exploration of action, motion, and time.

Signed and Numbered verso on a label with date and edition.

It measures 50 x 70 cm, making it a collectable and representative example of Signer's photographic documentation of his performance-based practice.

Literature : Christian Rümelin (Ed.):"100/125. Hundert Jahre Schweizerische Graphische Gesellschaft",Zürich, 2018, cat. no. 197, illustrated on page 88.

This piece reflects Signer’s contribution to Swiss conceptual and performance art and his unique ability to distill complex artistic processes into visually minimalist yet poetically loaded images.

Roman Signer (b. 1938, Appenzell, Switzerland) is one of Switzerland’s most respected contemporary artists, internationally renowned for his unique fusion of sculpture, performance, photography, and conceptual art. His practice is often described as “action sculpture”, blending scientific curiosity, deadpan humour, and poetic visual impact in carefully orchestrated temporal experiments.

Signer’s artistic investigations explore the nature of time, velocity, pressure, gravity, and transformation. Everyday materials—umbrellas, boots, balloons, buckets, fireworks, bicycles—are deployed in simple yet profound kinetic scenarios that often culminate in explosive or absurdly quiet outcomes. These “experiments” are usually documented through photography or video, turning transient actions into lasting visual statements.