Virtual Artist Talk | Pedro Reyes

TODAY: Thursday, 5 November 2020 at 7 pm (CET)

Dear Madam, dear Sir,

We are pleased to invite you once again to join today the Virtual Artist Talk with Pedro Reyes at 7 pm (CET). Watch the zoom event live and ask the artist questions in person. The conversation will be available online afterwards and be held in English.

>> Join the Artist Talk at 7 pm (CET)

Reyes will speak in his Artist Talk about the creation of the work group Disarm, which has concerned him since 2007, and addresses from a pacifist perspective the vision of preventing the increasing accumulation of weapons in the world. In this way he denounces the inhuman profit motives of arms manufacturers, and – with a film clip – the toxic, but also ridiculous discourses on warfare.

The Artist Talk begins at 7 pm with an introduction by Roland Wetzel, director of Museum Tinguely and curator of the exhibition. We are thankful to Heinrich Schmid of VernissageTV for the footage, allowing a virtual tour of the current exhibition on this occasion.

The exhibition «Pedro Reyes. Return to Sender» is on view at Museum Tinguely until Wednesday, 18 November 2020. The focus is on Reyes group of works Disarm, with the new series Disarm Music Box (2020) being exclusively created for the exhibition. These music boxes made of pistol and rifle barrels play compositions from the weapon manufacturers' countries of origin. They present a special «upcycling» process in which the weapons are transformed into musical instruments in a sort of alchemical operation.

We are looking forward to an interesting discussion with you later this day.

Yours sincerely,

Isabelle Beilfuss
Head of communication, Museum Tinguely

PALAS POR PISTOLAS | at SOLITUDE PARK, Basel

Also today a chestnut tree will be planted directly in front of Museum Tinguely using a shovel from Reyes' Palas por Pistolas (2007/2020) and dedicated to this work.