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if you keep shouting, you are not making communication any better. you are only removing talking and whispering from the system. i find our society a bit noisy. i just would like to contribute a little silence. —bruno monguzzi


Bruno Monguzzi at the opening of his Fifty Years of Paper exhibition in Shenzhen

Bruno Monguzzi at the opening of his exhibition “Fifty Years of Paper.” Shenzhen, 2014. © Jianping He.

the last inhabitant of the world of pencils

This is how Dieter Bachmann, a Swiss publicist and writer, has described Bruno Monguzzi. Indeed, Monguzzi prefers working with his hands to using computers and executes his work with astounding accuracy and artisanal skill. He handles tools, scissors and pens, obviously enjoying the materiality of the process.

 

A poster with a silhouette of a hand holding a white circle with a hole in it

Kunsthaus, Zürich. “Anwesenheit bei Abwesenheit.” Poster, 1990, 128×90.5 cm. Photogram Bruno Monguzzi.

 

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