27/09/2022
Shirana Shahbazi & Manuel Krebs (CH) at REDO
October 7–9, 2022
Shirana Shahbazi is a contemporary Iranian-born photographer known for her large-scale installations. Often manipulating her medium as a conceptual gesture, she has hired Iranian artisans to paint her photographs as images on billboards or weave them into a rugs. The photographs, which are crisp and vibrant and made without digital tools, feature brightly colored geometric shapes, human bodies, and still lifes. Born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran, Shahbazi received her formal training at the Fachhochschule Dortmund and the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zurich. The artist’s works have been exhibited at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Shahbazi lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.
Manuel Krebs (*1970, Bern, Switzerland) studied graphic design at the School of Applied Arts in Biel-Bienne. Together with Dimitri Bruni he established the graphic design studio NORM in 1999, and in 2007 Ludovic Varone joined the studio. NORM focuses on designing and publishing books and typefaces. Book design includes self-commissioned research in the field of type and graphic design, the most relevant being Norm: Introduction (2000), Norm: The Things (2002) and the recent Dimension of Two (2020).
Commissions include numerous collaborations with museums (MoMA, Tate Modern, Louvre, Centre Pompidou, Triennale Milano, Kunsthaus Zurich, Museum for Gestaltung Zurich) and artists (Fischli & Weiss, Simon Starling, Christian Marclay, Kelley Walker, Shirana Shahbazi).
Examples for type design include the Simple typeface for Cologne/Bonn airport (2003), the corporate typeface for OMEGA watches, the typeface Replica (2008, lineto.com), the corporate typeface for Swatch (2010), and the typeface Riforma (2018, lineto.com).
Official portrait of artist Shirana Shahbazi, laureate of the Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim 2019.Direction: Susanne Kaelin, 8horses.ch