Carlo Borer

Carlo Borer (born March 23, 1961, in Solothurn) is a Swiss artist and designer.

Works Carlo Borer is deliberately autodidact as an artist. He has been working freelance since 1981, beginning with figurative paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional works made of polyester and electrical light. Since 1991, he has been building objects out of stainless steel or aluminum. And in 1999, he started using 3D computer graphics to design, develop, and construct sculptures, installations, furniture and utilitarian objects, such as espresso machines, ventilators, and mailboxes. A laser is used to cut the forms out of the sheet metal, which are then rounded off and welded. Borer refers to works that have come about like this as Transformers, Loops, and Clouds. Though Borer takes his inspirations for his No Readymades and his Spaceships from pieces he has found, nevertheless, he creates the works as complex forms in virtual reality by means of CAD systems that have been further developed especially for this.

Carlo Borer lives in Wanzwil, and maintains his studio in Zuchwil.

Selected exhibitions 1990 : Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn 1997 : BHG Gallery, Los Angeles – Sinking Cities 2004 : Stadt Solothurn - The Big Loop 2009 : 4.th Swiss Triennial Festival of Sculpture, Bad RagARTz in Bad Ragaz and Vaduz 2010 : art station, Zurich – 2structures 2010 : Stiftung SkulptUrschweiz, Ennetbürgen-Luzern 2010 : BeGe Galerien, Ulm 2010 : Nord Art in Büdelsdorf 2011 : Nord Art in Büdelsdorf 2011 : Kulturforum Würth Chur, Chur – Thinking Shape

Commissions visible in public 2002 : Object No. 333, Saint-Blaise NE, 2007 : Object No. 397, Ennetbüren-Luzern 2009 : Object No. 401, Hilti Foundation, Schaan 2011 : Object No. 370, Kulturforum Würth Chur

Selected literature Catalogue Werkjahrbeiträge des Kantons Solothurn (1989) - Kantonales Kuratorium für Kulturförderung, Solothurn KVS Cultura, Ittigen, Issue 1 (1991) Peculiar Geometries, (Sculpture Vol. 27 No. 10, 2008): article by Peter Lodermeyer Kunst Vol. 4 (2011)