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Albrecht Schnider

Albrecht Schnider (1958, Luzern) is one of the most idiosyncratic painters at work. This is due not so much to his subjects, which comprise the traditional genres of art history such as landscape, figurative painting and still life as well as abstract works. It is more on account of the individual and highly distinctive attitude and direction he follows in terms of both form and content.
"Schnider's resolute indecisiveness about saying nothing and saying many things permit associative responses without having to provide them himself: empty yet clearly formed vessels that are just waiting to be filled with distinctive content" (Christoph Vögele). This statement applies quite particularly to Schnider's "abstract" works. The indefinable yet suggestive "signs" featuring in the usually large-scale works painted with the care and precision of an old master are reminiscent of tubes, oversized blood vessels or equally oversized digital brushstrokes. They possess the true-to-life quality of scientific drawings as well as a feel for sublime beauty. Basically, however, the subjects of these pictures and the manner in which they are painted are mutually contradictory. […] The cool artificiality, the hermetically symbolic stringency and the openness of the motifs of this memorable, suggestive and immediately "appealing" pictorial idiom can be interpreted as critical metaphors for the anemic world of modern advertising esthetics.
By Liselotte Wirth Schnöller