JAY RECHSTEINER
ABOUT
"It is very important to me that my work represents myself, my way of thinking and my opinions. Staying true to myself and having integrity is a very important aspect of my practice. I don't produce art for the masses, nor have I any desire to ride on the band wagon of current trends in the contemporary art world."
- Jay Rechsteiner
Jay Rechsteiner is a story-teller, whose process-based work sits at the intersection of different practices. Varied objects, found materials, detritus, video & audio footage, are all painstakingly collected and catalogued during his research and travels. These in turn are woven into stories, stories that are often so deeply embedded in the materials themselves so as to be invisible. Whether the work then manifests itself in the form of a drawing, a collage, a painting, an installation, an action or any other medium, his work is never so much about the discrete unit of work but rather the work as a part of the gesamtkunstwerk, the gestamt-story. His understanding of the gesamtkunstwerk, in its truest sense, is that the entirety of his work is a cohesive body, no matter how incongruous various elements may at first appear...
Jay Rechsteiner has shown his work internationally (Japan, USA, UK, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, France) in galleries and museums such as the Fukuoka Art Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Liverpool, the London Art Fair & the 53rd and 54th Venice Biennales. He established the successful The Washroom Projects (TWP) and then The Washroom Talks, which were twice presented at Tate Liverpool in 2007. The same year, he also joined forces with Portuguese Punk musician Victor 'Torpedo' from the Parkinsons and Tedio Boys, and they worked together under the pseudonym Sardine & Tobleroni until 2012. Since 2012 he has been working solo again.
He was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1971, he lives and works in London, UK.
- Jay Rechsteiner
Jay Rechsteiner is a story-teller, whose process-based work sits at the intersection of different practices. Varied objects, found materials, detritus, video & audio footage, are all painstakingly collected and catalogued during his research and travels. These in turn are woven into stories, stories that are often so deeply embedded in the materials themselves so as to be invisible. Whether the work then manifests itself in the form of a drawing, a collage, a painting, an installation, an action or any other medium, his work is never so much about the discrete unit of work but rather the work as a part of the gesamtkunstwerk, the gestamt-story. His understanding of the gesamtkunstwerk, in its truest sense, is that the entirety of his work is a cohesive body, no matter how incongruous various elements may at first appear...
Jay Rechsteiner has shown his work internationally (Japan, USA, UK, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, France) in galleries and museums such as the Fukuoka Art Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Liverpool, the London Art Fair & the 53rd and 54th Venice Biennales. He established the successful The Washroom Projects (TWP) and then The Washroom Talks, which were twice presented at Tate Liverpool in 2007. The same year, he also joined forces with Portuguese Punk musician Victor 'Torpedo' from the Parkinsons and Tedio Boys, and they worked together under the pseudonym Sardine & Tobleroni until 2012. Since 2012 he has been working solo again.
He was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1971, he lives and works in London, UK.