Swiss artist Albrecht Schnider showcases new work at Mai 36 Gallery, Zurich, some of them conceived with this exhibition in mind. A few carefully chosen early works complement the selection providing a fascinating insight into the ongoing development as well as the intrinsic constancy of the artist’s diverse output over four decades.

The exhibition has been curated by Beat Wismer in close collaboration with the artist.

Albrecht Schnider’s carefully structured and organized works include paintings, drawings and small-format sculptures. His  unique language of colour and form oscillates finely between abstraction and figuration, richness and absence of meaning, closeness and distance.

Albrecht Schnider, born in 1958 in Lucerne, works in painting, drawing and small-scale sculpture. The artist’s complex image construction process is both creative and constructive; beginning within the dialogically linked act of drawing and the analysis of shape, to the choice of color and form.

Through this process, Schnider’s paintings are meticulously planned, rigorously structured, organised and executed.

Abstract, organically and geometrically shaped fields of color are superimposed onto monochrome backgrounds. Alternating between different colors, they oscillate between figure and the monochromatic backdrop upon which it is juxtaposed; positive and negative image.

Albrecht Schnieder
Mai 36 Gallery
Zurich
September 7 – October 26 2019
https://www.mai36.com

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