Born 10.11.1949 in R\u00fcti, ZH, Switzerland<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n Apprenticeship as an advertising assistant – worked for various art directors<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 1979 a professional self-trained artist.<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1999 Work contribution by Esther Matossi-Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland 2015 Winner of a Residence at the Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts, Paris<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Several stays in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I live in Zurich and work in my studio in Dietikon – Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n VARIETY OF MEANS OF EXPRESSION – NO UNITY OF STYLE<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photography, installation, painting, embroidery, textile and leather wall pieces and video<\/p>\n\n\n\n are the media I work with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I like to create installations for a specific location on a given theme – such as installation I like to create installations for a specific location on a given theme – such as installation <\/p>\n\n\n\n <REFLECTION>, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n and<\/p>\n\n\n\n <FALSE BLOOSOMS>, 2008, on the subject of >Weightlessness> for the lakeside resort Utoquai in Zurich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <FALSE BLOSSOMS>, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am interested in everything surrounding me and realize my works in work groups and serials:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In New York I filmed the sky – an exhibition of video stills <SKY NYC>, printed on canvas, were exhibited at Galerie Alex Schlesinger in Zurich. In Zurich I focused my gaze on the shadows of trees and plants on the concrete floor of Zurich – the photos of the series <Volative Images> were also presented at Alex Schlesinger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2009 I made my third work with embroidery: <A Mirror of Modern Emotion>, exhibition titles embroidered on coffee coasters. In 2007 I did six over-embroideries, embroidery on found embroidery, and in 2003 I embroidered headlines from New York daily newspapers during the Iraq War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The photography project <1994 – 2003>, is about 10 people in different ages in 10 years \u2013 every year a new photography – 100 black and white photographs – was completed in 2008. A beautiful book object with 10 leporellos (a leporello from each person) and texts from Ruth Schweikert, a well-known swiss writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My newest works 2022\/2023 are leather and fabric wall pieces and new paintings<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <TOGETHER>, 2019, 108 x 126 cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <WHAT HAPPENS>, 2020, 143 x 135 cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <<\/em><\/strong>FLOW>, 2024, Acrylic on canvas,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here in Akureyri I am very inspired by the beautiful lava landscapes, the mountains, elves, trolls, sea – all this deep impressions have leed me to serveal new works like<\/p>\n\n\n\n <BLACK & WHITE><\/p>\n\n\n\n saw many mountain ridges covered half with snow and the patterns between snow and lava are so beautiful – a lot of magical figures appeas.. I have some painted after photographs I took – but the nature is much more impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have the choice to look at the black or the white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <SILVER><\/p>\n\n\n\n The light in Iceland is so special and I take for it silver foil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This work is dedicated to elves, fairies, trolls and all nature spirits whitch lives together in peace and happyness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Artists in residence for the month of May 2024 Born 10.11.1949 in R\u00fcti, ZH, Switzerland Apprenticeship as an advertising assistant – worked for various art directors Since 1979 a professional self-trained artist. 1999 Work contribution by Esther Matossi-Foundation,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,33],"tags":[233,247],"class_list":["post-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist-in-residence","category-uncategorized-en","tag-artists-in-residence","tag-gil-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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