Art meets industry

BC-TECH AG opens the door to young artists and enables them to express their creativity. Together with the Vögele Kultur Zentrum (Pfäffikon SZ), the company has developed a concept in which art and industry can come together.

In the impressive new building in the Vial industrial park, three artists were given the opportunity to work on individual exposed concrete walls in meeting rooms, corridors and canteens. The aim is to create “art…” that is at the heart of employees’ everyday lives, delights them, sometimes distracts them and, ideally, inspires them. The team and visitors are thus playfully encouraged to engage with contemporary art.

In return, the artists gain an insight into the day-to-day production of a high-tech company. It becomes clear that there are more similarities between art and industry than initially thought: both are about craftsmanship, dealing with the material and implementing good ideas – albeit with different creative freedoms.

The artists: Abigail Janjic, Mathias Lüscher, Markus B. Komminoth

Thin space, Abigail Janjic

Janjic has taken the company’s most important products as a starting point. The core business of BC-TECH AG is Glass-to-metal Feedthroughs, which are of central importance for measuring the flow of a liquid. The young artist’s mural aims to make this liquid movement visible and tangible. It is placed in a corridor so that it creates an idea of movement in the people passing through – sometimes you walk with the flow, sometimes against it.

Abigail Janjic (*1989) studied Fine Arts at HEAD in Geneva until 2012 and won the Stravinsky Painter Prize in the same year. In 2015, she completed her Master’s degree in Textile Design in Stockholm. This was followed in 2017 by a second Master’s degree in Fine Arts at ECAL in Lausanne. Most recently, she was awarded an artist residency in Serbia, where she created a project that combined dance and visual art. In fall 2021, she will present her latest project at the Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm.

 

 

Banquet, Mathias Lüscher

Checked tablecloths, flowers, cocktails, dancing giants and a pair of lovers: The artist has created a gigantic feast in his work. He was inspired by cookbooks from the 1960s and the trendy neon signs we know from amusement parks in big cities. With his colorful images and shapes, he transforms the concrete walls of the cafeteria in the new BC-TECH AG building into a fascinatingly garish universe that turns your stay into a pleasurable moment.

Mathias Lüscher (*1994) completed his Bachelor in Fine Arts in Basel in 2019. Since graduating, he has worked as an assistant for other artists and looked for new sources of inspiration at the Sasso Residency in Ticino. In his work, he tells the stories of his fellow human beings and draws parallels to his own existence. He also likes to make references to art movements such as Pop Art or Nouveau Realisme.

 

BCTE LARIX/LARSCH2, BCTE K1 and BCTE A1, Markus B. Komminoth

Nature, environmental protection and recycling, as well as the regional reference are central to the artist Markus B. Komminoth in the creation process of his works. This is also how the idea for his first work BCTE LARIX/LARSCH2 came about: A work made of brass shavings, leftover material from the production of BC-TECH AG in Domat/Ems, which is reminiscent in color and form of the yellowish discoloration of the needles of surrounding larch trees in autumn. The two other works, BCTE K1 and BCTE A1, were created from copper and aluminum parts and reflect the variety of materials used in the company’s production. He used concrete to cast all these different rejects into a larch frame. The three resulting works hang in the reception area of BC-TECH AG. They embody the uniqueness of the company, the variety of materials used and processed and their connection to the region.

Markus B. Komminoth grew up in Domat/Ems and Maienfeld. He completed an apprenticeship as a structural draughtsman. After a stay abroad in England, he worked in industry for many years. During this time, he realized his first exhibition at the Kronen Galerie in Zurich. He took the step of reorienting himself professionally as a freelance artist in 2018 and has since exhibited his work in various places, mainly in the canton of Graubünden. He is also a passionate spotlight artist on Piz Beverin and offers tours.

 

Further information on the project: www.voegelekultur.ch/kunst-entsteht-in-domat-ems

 

 

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