Reliefs 1993 – 1995 mixed media
a Releif is something between a sculpture and a painting, neither one nor the other.
1992 together with my colleague Roger Spalinger, I rented the locker rooms in the old tannery in Männedorf, where we set up a sculptor’s studio. What we lacked there was an outdoor workspace, so the studio was often cluttered with rubble and tree trunks. This is where I made necklace sculptures, ladder sculptures and where I deepened my modeling skills with plaster.
Among other things, I also created reliefs that I called eumorphic extracts, traces of my old sculptures, which were generally considered beautiful, in order to develop a new language with the negative forms produced in this way. In the course of this activity, I created a number of reliefs from very different materials and using different techniques. During this time, it was important to me that I did not work with conventional, tried-and-tested craft techniques and I allowed myself the luxury of programmatically messing up works in order to create something new from their fragments, to create myself anew as an artist.
For me, the works from this period are testimony to the necessity as an artist of creating something new.