Silvia Bächli. Along Long Lines

Silvia Bächli (*1956 in Baden, lives in Basel) is considered one of the most important drawing positions of her generation. For 40 years, her works in ink, charcoal, pastel chalk or gouache have enriched the oldest genre of fine art with new and unexpected impulses.

Silvia Bächli is a precise and sensitive observer of her surroundings. In a special way she focuses on the body and its movements. Her response in drawings, however, does not attempt to first intellectually grasp what she sees and then to interrogate it through drawing, but is put on paper intuitively and in the most direct way possible. Her works trace the representability of things beyond their visual recognizability. Perhaps in the context of her approach one cannot speak of representations in the classical sense, but rather of translations of the perceptible into atmospheres.

Silvia Bächli’s exhibition at the Weserburg is retrospective, with a special focus on her most recent work, which includes small sculptures, collages, and small book objects in addition to drawings.

Curated by Janneke de Vries