Painting
Structure as Perception
Elements in Life’s ‘structures’ are both imposed and a choice, both precise and imprecise, tangible and recognized with clarity or ignored or unnoticed and allowed unperceived into ‘the system’. Selectivity makes up the collage of our lives, preserving some of the essentials, making up trivia here and imposing an order there. Structuring and dismantling also suggest a tension between creation and deconstruction, allowing for new interpretations or possibilities to emerge. Time and unpredictability also adjust what could be fragile perceptions of structures.
Structure as Perception 1 Oil on canvas 2023 120 x 80 cm
Structure as Perception 2 Diptych 2021 Oil on canvas 2 x 70 x 60 cm
Structure as Perception 3 Oil on canvas 2021 120 x 120 cm
Structure as Perception 4 Oil on canvas 2021 100 x 140 cm
Structure as Perception 5 Oil on canvas 2022 100 x 80 cm
Gallery view Ascona 2022
Structure as Perception 6 Oil on canvas 2019 185 x 155cm
Structure as Perception 7 2019 mixed media on canvas 60 x 40 cm
Structure as Perception 8 Triptych 2019 100 x 150 cm
Painting
Between Thought and Language
Experimenting with a very different style, Between Thought and Language is the space where ideas are in a diffuse form and are yet to find their verbal expression. It is an area filled with ambiguity, emotion and nuance, where creativity and cognition play, before being subject to articulation. Again it is a case of structuring and dismantling, but in this case, of thought and language. It is this non verbal space where art and music can convey what words might fail to do. However it is also fundamental to our verbal communication which challenges our societies to find strategies for mutual understanding.
Between Thought and Language 1 2023 Oil on canvas 140 x 100 cm
Between Thought and Language 2 2023 Diptych Oil on canvas 165 x 150 cm
Between Thought and Language 3 2023 Oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm.
Between Thought and Language 4 2023 Oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm
Gallery view, Winterthur 2024