Silvia Bächli and Eric Hattan

Blindhaedir

East Iceland

Silvia Bächli and Eric Hattan spent four months, from March to June, in Seydisfjördur in eastern Iceland. The landscape they explored on their daily walks is dominated by snow, which shapes the atmosphere in and around the fjord with its changeable forms: turquoise meltwater, frost patterns, a few glass-clear bright colours in the whiteness, walls of snow by the edge of the road, drifts, icicles and at last the first brown snow-free places — things are slowly turning green. The artists create a unique portrait of Iceland’s magnificent landscapes with their photographs, in all its detail, thus chronicling the passage of time and the approach of the warmer season.

Silvia Bächli and Eric Hattan spent four months, from March to June, in Seydisfjördur in eastern Iceland. The landscape they explored on their daily walks is dominated by snow, which shapes the atmosphere in and around the fjord with its changeable forms: turquoise meltwater, frost patterns, a few glass-clear bright colours in the whiteness, walls of snow by the edge of the road, drifts, icicles and at last the first brown snow-free places — things are slowly turning green. The artists create a unique portrait of Iceland’s magnificent landscapes with their photographs, in all its detail, thus chronicling the passage of time and the approach of the warmer season.

Author(s): Silvia Bächli, Eric Hattan

Edited by Editions Attitudes, Genève

29 x 16,3 cm, 11 ½ x 7 ½ in

304 pages, 147 illustrations

hardback

2010, 978-3-03778-216-3, German
English
French
Icelandic
CHF 35.00
Out of print

Silvia Bächli

Silvia Bächli lives in Basel and Paris and has held a chair at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe since 1994. Her work is to be found in museums and private collections all over the world.

Eric Hattan

Eric Hattan, born in 1955 in Wettingen, Switzerland, is an artist.