My work entails approaching something that I don\u2019t know well and finding out about it by doing.<\/p>\n
Silvia B\u00e4chli<\/p>\n
\u00a0Silvia B\u00e4chli, 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 B\u00e4chli\u2019s artistic process during which the artist appropriates things, so to speak, to give them an autonomous form in drawing. Starting in 1984, B\u00e4chli 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.<\/p>\n
B\u00e4chli\u2019s quiet work is now appreciated all over the world and has been exhibited in important museums such as the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art 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.<\/p>\n
The exhibition in Winterthur, entitled They\u2019ve 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 B\u00e4chli\u2019s multifaceted oeuvre, with a series of small sculptures that she is presenting in Switzerland for the first time.<\/p>\n
A picture book conceived by B\u00e4chli, including her photographs of the exhibition, will be published in conjunction with this show.<\/p>\n
Curators: Konrad Bitterli, David Schmidhauser With kind support Kunst Museum Winterthur
\nBeim Stadthaus
\n8400 Winterthur
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1605 Tuesday 10 \u2013 20 Uhr
\nWednesday to Sunday 10 \u2013 17 Uhr
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