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Auf Titelblatt vom Künstler signiert. - Beat Kuert was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1946, today he lives and works in Arzo (Ticino). He made his first experimental movies while still in school, he later learned the craft of filmmaking while working for Turnus Film. After an extended stay in Latin America, he worked for the cultural department of the Swiss television and gained experiences in the theatre. He finally made his first feature film in 1974 and achieved great success in the field of experiment films, then he devoted himself to the expression of his feelings about existence and life through the form of video art. In 2000, Beat Kuert started to try the means of photography to interpret his views. He believes that “picture is the motion of the highest level”. Movies like ‘Schilten’, ‘Martha Dubronski’, ‘Deshima’, ‘The Grand Inquisitor’ and ‘Pi-errotische Beziehungen’ cemented his name as innovative and many-sided director. Starting in 1996 he made several documentaries, many of them about famous architects like Jean Nouvel, Herzog & deMeuron, Mario Botta, Max Dudler and Luigi Snozzi. He used to teach Visual Communication at the professional University (SUPSI) in Lugano and the film school ZELIG in Bolzano. Beat Kuert founded the art-collective dust&scratches in 2005 to produce performances, videoart and music along with his photographic work. He has exhibited in many international venues and won several awards. Since 2008, Beat Kuert has completed various projects in China. He is also an advisor to ‘Yuanfen-Flow’ in Beijing, a venture which seeks to promote the exchange of ideas between China and the rest of the world.
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