ALBRECHT SCHNIDER
2019-08-26The selection of works focuses on new pictures, some of them created with this exhibition in mind. A few carefully chosen early works provide a fascinating insight into the ongoing development as well as the intrinsic constancy of his diverse output over nigh on four decades. The exhibition has been curated by Beat Wismer in close collaboration with the artist.
Albrecht Schnider’s visual art has evolved between the two divergent poles of drawing and painting. Or rather, it has charted a course from free and spontaneous drawing, as a starting point, towards the execution of painted of images with a truly iconic radiance. The drawings and paintings are polar opposites. The drawings are created with the greatest possible freedom and autonomy, whereby all compositional or design intent is secondary and each line is created with the greatest possible immediacy, flowing directly from the hand, in the spirit of écriture automatique. Such an approach to drawing does not involve the abstraction of some external object, but is more a case of finding form through thought-free execution.
Opposite – Untitled, 2019
Exhibition runs through to October 26th, 2019
Mai 36 Galerie
Rämistrasse 37
CH-8001 Zürich
Switzerland
