Silvia Bächli
They’ve Turned into Each Other. Which Is Which?
25 May – 18 August 2024 | Beim Stadthaus
Silvia Bächli
Ausstellungsansicht
My work entails approaching something that I don’t know well and finding out about it by doing.
Silvia Bächli
Silvia Bächli, born in 1956 in Baden, Switzerland, and now based in Basel, has developed her drawing oeuvre since the late 1970s in a manner that is both cautious and consistent. Her expressive approach to physicality developed over time to an almost introspective view of reality. Everyday perception forms the starting point of Bächli’s artistic process during which the artist appropriates things, so to speak, to give them an autonomous form in drawing. Starting in 1984, Bächli began combining small-format drawings into Ensembles, multipart wall compositions. Since 2001 she created large-format paper works with overlapping, filigree lineaments; in recent years she has become more prudent about the relationship between the areas of color and the background.
Bächli’s quiet work is now appreciated all over the world and has been exhibited in important museums such as the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain in Geneva (2006), Centre Pompidou in Paris (2007), the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich (2014), the Museum Weserburg in Bremen (2022), and the Centro Botin in Santander (2024). In 2009 she represented Switzerland at the fifty-third Venice Biennale.
The exhibition in Winterthur, entitled They’ve Turned into Each Other. Which Is Which? after a line in a poem by American poet Elizabeth Bishop, takes works from the series Lidschlag (Blink of an Eye) as its starting point and offers a comprehensive overview of Bächli’s multifaceted oeuvre, with a series of small sculptures that she is presenting in Switzerland for the first time.
A picture book conceived by Bächli, including her photographs of the exhibition, will be published in conjunction with this show.
Curators: Konrad Bitterli, David Schmidhauser
21.09.2024
18:00 - 19:00Talk with the Artist / Beim Stadthaus
Where is Duchamp? – Talk with Bethan Huws
Over the last two decades, Bethan Huws has become one of the leading experts on the work of Marcel Duchamp. She will talk about her research into the readymade, the end of painting and the birth of conceptual art, and how her engagement with the French artist’s thought processes and work has influenced and shaped her own work.
The written conversation with the artist will be conducted in English.
17.11.2024
13:00 - 14:00Special / Beim Stadthaus
Just What Was it That Made Yesterday’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? – Gespräch mit Etienne Lullin
Together with Etienne Lullin, Lynn Kost will give a guided tour of the exhibition at the finissage. The tour will focus on the work of Richard Hamilton. As a co-founder of Pop Art, the British artist is an important figure in the exhibition and has helped to shape appropriation art and the perception of the readymade. Lullin is an expert on Hamilton and author of the catalogue raisonné of his prints and multiples, the entire holdings of which are in the collection of the Kunst Museum Winterthur.
With kind support
Kunst Museum Winterthur
Beim Stadthaus
8400 Winterthur
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Tuesday 10 – 20 Uhr
Wednesday to Sunday 10 – 17 Uhr
Closed on Monday
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