1. Silvia Bächli – das
    Silvia Bächli
    Silvia Bächli – das

    Edited by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Bern

    Silvia Bächli was invited to design the official contribution for the Swiss Pavilion at this year’s Biennale in Venice. This book offers a look inside her studio and documents the preparation of her works for the Biennale, illustrating her working process with spatial situations and snapshots that show her trying out various constellations as well as focusing on individual works and groups. The works and pictures from the artist’s studio are combined with photographs of her working stay in Iceland. Bächli has developed her body of drawings over the course of three decades, using varying formats and techniques. Drawing, for her, is a movement of seeing, of gentle deviations and displacements within the gravitational field of an aimless attentiveness to things and dreamlike phenomena that doesn’t really come to rest even in the finished drawing. The result is not just painterly moments; the drawings often seem to capture, as if in film stills, a cinematic look way of looking at bodies and things or their details, at landscapes, gestures, structures, and processes.

    13 x 19.5 cm, 5 x 7¾ in, 136 pages, 60 illustrations, softcover (2009)

    ISBN 978-3-03778-155-5, e/g

    EUR 23.00 / USD 40.00 / GBP 23.00
    Silvia Bächli

    Silvia Bächli, born 1956 in Baden,Switzerland, is an artist and professor at the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe. She lives in Basel and Paris.


    2009 Biennale di Venezia, Swiss Pavillon
    2007 Night and Day, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museu Serralves, Porto
    2006 Poèmes sans prénoms, Mamco, Genève; Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn
    2005 Lines, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
    2002 Frac Haute-Normandie, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Strasbourg
    1997 Kunstmuseum Bonn
    1996 Kunsthalle Bern
    1994 Centre d’art contemporain, Genève
     
    Silvia Bächli works with: Peter Freeman Inc, New York; Friedrich, Basel; Barbara Gross, München; Vera Munro, Hambur; Nelson-Freeman, Paris; Skopia, Genève

    «Fast erlaubt einem dieses Buch, die Perspektive der Künstlerin einzunehmen, die ihre Werke probehalber ins Atelier hängt und stellt, näher herangeht, die Nachbarschaft verändert, schliesslich ein paar Schritte zurücktritt, das Gesamttableau prüft.»
    Basler Zeitung

    «Auf dieser Bildspur begleitet man Silvia Bächli durch ihr poetisches Künstlerbuch.»
    artline.org