ART
Silvia Bächli |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 13 April, 11:00Galerie Nelson Freeman, 75004 [map]Silvia Bächli
The Galerie Nelson-Freeman presents
Silvia Bächli’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery.
For 30 years, Silvia Bächli has explored every aspect of drawing. Its flexibility and immediacy allows her to express with great intensity the fleeting moments of life. Using the body and its movements as a starting point, Silvia Bächli’s work spreads into everything that can be considered part of the realm of feeling. In this way she presents a reality made up of fragments and impressions. She takes no interest in grandiloquence, but prefers to give greater importance to details, small things, minutiae; "I try to sense those words that we have on the tips of our tongues but we can never precisely define."
Bächli’s oeuvre revolves around a number of recurring themes and patterns: Straight or curved lines, checkerboard patterns, text extracts, landscapes, fragments of the human form. Her work tries neither to be figurative nor abstract. "Crossed lines can become stars or perhaps the lines on the palm of ones hand … It is quite possible that something figurative springs to the mind of the viewer, but there are too few concrete signs to say exactly what it is with any certainty."
For this new exhibition, Silvia Bächli has included five large-scale drawings that push further an important series begun in 2006. As well as this series, the artist is also exhibiting a series of new, small and medium format drawings in a wide range of greys or in colour. They show great diversity in technique, moving from fine, nervous strokes to broader, calmer lines. Born in Switzerland in 1956, Silvia Bächli lives and works in both Paris and Basel.
