Maarten Baas - New Times

For the first time in Switzerland, the work of the internationally renowned Dutch designer and artist Maarten Baas is being shown in a monographic exhibition. The focus is on his diverse and long-standing exploration of the phenomenon of time and the motif of the clock, which he realises in expansive video installations, design objects, sculptures and conceptual projects.

In his works, Maarten Baas always moves on the border between art and design. His works can be characterised by an intellectual, but also rebellious and playful style, with which he has also achieved great fame. Since 2009, he has been developing the "Real Time" series, for which he designs large-format clocks in a wide variety of shapes. These are complex works in which he reproduces the time in performative video works, thus merging the depicted time and the narrative duration.

The solo show at the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur presents a broad spectrum of these "Real Time" room installations and video projections, a series of "Grandfather Clocks" and "Children Clocks" as well as other, also completely new works that deal with time. The exhibition shows how Baas thinks about clocks in a different way by combining technology, art and design, as well as reality and fiction. He thus reflects on the relativity of time - and literally tempts us to watch time pass.