Kunst Museum Winterthur - Beim Stadthaus, Museumstrasse 52, 8400 Winterthur
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Silvia Bächli is one of Switzerland's most important illustrators. Since the late 1970s, she has developed her work both carefully and consistently.
"My work is an approach to something that I don't know exactly and that I only find out by doing."
Silvia Bächli
Silvia Bächli, born in Baden in 1956 and now living in Basel, has been developing her graphic work since the late 1970s with equal measures of caution and consistency. The expressive approach to physicality has given way to an almost introspective view of reality. Everyday perception forms the starting point for an artistic process in the course of which the artist appropriates things, as it were, in order to give them an autonomous graphic form. From 1984 onwards, she combined the small-format drawings into ensembles, multi-part compositions on the wall. From 2001, she worked on large-format works on paper with overlapping, delicate lineaments; in recent years, the color surface has been carefully related to the picture ground.
Silvia Bächli's silent work is now recognized worldwide, as evidenced by exhibitions in important museums: 2006 at the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain in Geneva, 2007 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 2014 at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich, 2022 at the Museum Weserburg in Bremen and 2024 at the Centro Botin in Santander. In 2009, she represented Switzerland at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
The Winterthur exhibition entitled Dass eins zum andern wurde. Which is which? after a quote by the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, is based on the retained works from the Lidschlag series and offers a comprehensive overview of Silvia Bächli's multifaceted oeuvre - presenting a series of small-scale sculptures for the first time in Switzerland.
A picture book conceived by Silvia Bächli with her photographs of the exhibition will be published to accompany the exhibition.
Curators: Konrad Bitterli, David Schmidhauser
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Silvia Bächli
Silvia Bächli, born in Baden in 1956 and now living in Basel, has been developing her graphic work since the late 1970s with equal measures of caution and consistency. The expressive approach to physicality has given way to an almost introspective view of reality. Everyday perception forms the starting point for an artistic process in the course of which the artist appropriates things, as it were, in order to give them an autonomous graphic form. From 1984 onwards, she combined the small-format drawings into ensembles, multi-part compositions on the wall. From 2001, she worked on large-format works on paper with overlapping, delicate lineaments; in recent years, the color surface has been carefully related to the picture ground.
Silvia Bächli's silent work is now recognized worldwide, as evidenced by exhibitions in important museums: 2006 at the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain in Geneva, 2007 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 2014 at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich, 2022 at the Museum Weserburg in Bremen and 2024 at the Centro Botin in Santander. In 2009, she represented Switzerland at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
The Winterthur exhibition entitled Dass eins zum andern wurde. Which is which? after a quote by the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, is based on the retained works from the Lidschlag series and offers a comprehensive overview of Silvia Bächli's multifaceted oeuvre - presenting a series of small-scale sculptures for the first time in Switzerland.
A picture book conceived by Silvia Bächli with her photographs of the exhibition will be published to accompany the exhibition.
Curators: Konrad Bitterli, David Schmidhauser
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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Kunst Museum Winterthur | Beim Stadthaus
Museumstrasse 52
8400 Winterthur