Christoph Büchel

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Christoph Büchel (born 1966) is a Swiss artist.

Biography

Christoph Büchel was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1966. Büchel creates hyper-realistic environments that create the experience of walking into a mind at work. His detailed installations are three-dimensional renderings of interior spaces and/or situations that often convey extreme psychological mindsets, such as that of a survivalist, a homeless person, or an agoraphobe. These fictitious yet highly believable environments – rooms within rooms – are carefully constructed so that the institutional framework of the art museum and all reference to the gallery context are removed.^{[citation needed]}

A complexity is found in the elaborate detail the artist develops for each project, an artistic sensibility that allows layers of social and political commentary to permeate within a uniquely contemplative space. Büchel locates contradictions and social inequities in the ideological forces dominating society today (global capitalism, unprincipled consumption, religious conservatism, American hegemony) and finds a way through his work to satirize, demystify, and resist these forces by revealing them as constructed realities subject to change.^{[citation needed]}

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 62436420 LCCN: nr2004012507 ISNI: 0000 0001 2136 1014 GND: 122704681 BNF: cb16229973m

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