Silvia Gertsch, Xerxes Ach
dal 21/10/2015 al 20/2/2016
Segnalato da
21/10/2015
Silvia Gertsch, Xerxes Ach
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Embracing Sensation. Gertsch's reverse-glass painting technique creates compositions of young people during summertime, sunbaking, or strolling along streets absorbed by play. In contrast, Ach explores the microphenomena of light refraction on the surfaces of different materials and the multifarious impressions it creates.
curator Kathleen Buehler
The artist couple Silvia Gertsch (*1963) and Xerxes Ach (*1957) employ very different stylistic means, art materials, and visual languages. However, both artists share a fascination for light and color in their work. In its fall exhibition, the Kunstmuseum Bern will be presenting an encounter with both of these Bernese artists. The show will be the first of its kind to focus on the individual works of both artists or engage with the artist couple with such intensity.
Silvia Gertsch’s reverse-glass painting technique creates compositions of young people during summertime, sunbaking, or strolling along streets, as well as children absorbed by play. In contrast, Xerxes Ach explores the microphenomena of light refraction on the surfaces of different materials and the multifarious impressions it creates. Despite the fact that both artists have adopted dissimilar stylistic languages—one articulates herself in the vocabulary of realism, the other in color-field abstractionism—they both take recourse to photographs as their starting point.
With the aid of photography they capture transitory moments in time and ephemeral visual impressions. In Gertsch’s case, the photographs are snapshots of everyday life, pictures that would otherwise be lost among the banality of the everyday. Ach, in turn, zeroes in on detailed impressions of the effects of light as we perceive them and, in his art, translates them into a cosmic view of the world.
Silvia Gertsch and Xerxes Ach both address the ephemerality of life and the fleeting nature of sensual things. The shared environment in which the two artists live is the starting point of the exhibition—for which many new works were made. The show investigates the different stylistic languages of the artists and gives ample space to vision as our means of sensually experiencing the world around us.
Press contact:
Simon Oberholzer Tel.: +41 31 3280903 simon.oberholzer@kunstmuseumbern.ch
Opening 22 october 2015, h 18 - 21
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Berne
Museum of Fine Arts Bern Hodlerstrasse 8–12 CH-3000 Bern 7
Hours:
Tuesday 10h – 21h
Wednesday to Sunday 10h – 17h
Mondays closed
Admission fees
Combined Ticket CHF 22.00 /red.* CHF 18.00
Children (up to 16): free
Collection CHF 7.00 /red.* CHF 5.00
Children (up to 16): free
Exhibitions up to CHF 20.00 / red.* CHF 16.00
Children (up to 16): free