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Silvia Bächli, exhibition view, le Printemps de Septembre 2021
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photo : damien aspe
Practical information:
3, place du Capitole, 31000 Toulouse
Opening on Friday 17 September from 6pm to 11pm
Wednesday to Sunday from 12pm to 7pm
Night-time on September 18th until 11pm
Silvia Bächli, exhibition view, le Printemps de Septembre 2021
© le Printemps de septembre
photo : damien aspe
Practical information:
3, place du Capitole, 31000 Toulouse
Opening on Friday 17 September from 6pm to 11pm
Wednesday to Sunday from 12pm to 7pm
Night-time on September 18th until 11pm
Silvia Bächli, exhibition view, le Printemps de septembre 2021
© le Printemps de septembre
photo : damien aspe
Practical information:
3, place du Capitole, 31000 Toulouse
Opening on Friday 17 September from 6pm to 11pm
Wednesday to Sunday from 12pm to 7pm
Night-time on September 18th until 11pm
For her show at Fondation espace écureuil, Silvia Bächli occupies the space with new pieces – gouache drawings. She also works in Indian ink and watercolors. Simple, pared-down forms – the result of gestures determined by recollections of things seen and left to their own internal process, with no preconceived formal ideas. Gestures conditioned by the very possibility of her body drawing. Silvia Bächli’s drawings are created with great economy of lines or blocks, or lines and blocks, like a paring back of gestures, no pentimento, maintaining the fragility of forms, and whose color scheme is strongly influenced by northern landscapes. "Drawing means leaving things aside," she says. "A winter landscape in the snow."
Through extremely precise hanging – a decisive aspect of her work – she arranges drawings individually or in what she calls ensembles, of which there are several here, hanging frontally. Varying points of view, without favoring one or another, each piece or ensemble nonetheless remains autonomous, acting like an open structure. By the manner of their layout, the artist composes a score. Full of rhythm, beats, intervals, from one piece or ensemble to the next, the exhibition is written "like musical notation," in three movements in this case, one might say. And the white wall on which her large white sheets – now the sole medium for her work – are arranged becomes a sort of extension, connecting more than separating, creating spaces and silences. An invitation to movement, with an imaginary line to be followed. One of many possibilities.
With the support of Fondation d’entreprise espace écureuil pour l’art contemporain and Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture.
Born in Baden (Switzerland) in 1956, Silvia Bächli lives and works in Basel (Switzerland). She represented Switzerland at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Numerous exhibitions have been devoted to her work, notably at LaBF15 (Lyon, 2021), Beyeler Foundation (Basel/Riehen, 2019), Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2019), Kunstmuseum Basel (2018), Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2007), Serralves Museum (Porto, 2007) and Mamco (Geneva, 2006). In 2007, Silvia Bächli won the contemporary drawing prize awarded by La Fondation Daniel et Florence Guerlain. Her work figures in numerous public collections, including those of Centre Pompidou Paris, Dallas Art Museum, MoMA NYC, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt.