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Albrecht Schnider |
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Landschaft 2007 AS07B18, oil on canvas, 16,5x33 cm Landschaft 2008 AS08B01, Oil on canvas, 16,5x33 cm
Landschaft 2007 AS07B18, oil on canvas, 16,5x33 cm
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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
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