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"At first it was a study. I was writing silences, writing nights, I took notes on the inexpressible. I pinned down vertigos." Arthur Rimbaud | |
Painting is like writing poetry, catching the wind: “Wings to soar above life” as Vincent Van Gogh said. Wisdom resides perhaps in the acceptance of some folly in your life… I was born in Zurich. In my early years I practiced ballet dancing, which has left me with a taste for a certain exactness. I love calligraphy, cartography, and graffiti, I have always been painting. I feel close to Paul Klee, Henri Michaux, Gaston Chaissac, Pygmy painters,
folk art from all over world, Outsider Art for its spontaneity. I love searching, digging at what’s behind the surface, leading
the traveller from one world to the other, creating paths: archaeology
of the unconscious. I try to be simple with simple means: pigment, binder and canvas, or any other chance material. I never know what is going to happen. At the beginning there is chaos, a sort of magma, I grind, I scrape, I rake. An image half-seen soon brings another one. The canvas builds itself up, layer after layer, things keep arising. I let things come, I follow my intuition. The canvas slowly brews. Natasha Krenbol |
1978-1982 |
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris |
1985-1986 |
Kala Institute, Berkeley, California |
2004 |
Galerie Taoa, Crest, France |
2003 |
Espace Saint-Martin, Paris : Le printemps des singuliers |
2000 |
Prieuré de Manthes, Drôme, France |
1999 |
Funabashi city gallery, Japan Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo, Japan |
1998 |
Outsider Art Fair, New York Judy A Saslow gallery, Chicago : Far out'98, Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris |
1996 |
Altstadt gallery, Bern, Switzerland |
1995 |
Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam |
1993 |
Musée de la poste, Paris : Timbres d'artistes Site de la Création Franche, Bègles, France : Les jardiniers de la mémoire |
1991 |
Musée de la poste, Paris : Les guichets de l'enfance |
1990 |
Musée de la poste, Paris : Coups d'envois ou l'art à la lettre Gallery Pixi et Cie, Paris : Rouge écarlate |
1988 |
Drawings for a book Urban and suburban parks published by the Pompidou Center, exhibited at the Center |
2007 |
Galerie Art Prise de Tête, Romans, France |
2005 | Art@ctua, le Mans, France |
2000 |
Am Platz gallery, Twilight, Eglisau, Switzerland |
1999 |
Galerie Jonas, Petit-Cortaillod, Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
1998 |
Galerie d'Origine, Lyon, France Altstadt gallery, Bern, Switzerland |
1997 |
Altstadt-halle, Zug, Switzerland Trubahus gallery, Azmoos, Switzerland |
1995 |
Galerie Michel Lagarde, Paris Galerie Avantgarde, Mannheim, Germany Trubahus gallery, Azmoos, Switzerland |
1994 |
Musée Adzak, Paris : Alabama Galerie du Ressort, Paris, France Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam Gallery Bad Schinznach, Switzerland |
1991 |
Gallery Art'o, Aubervilliers : In Harlem streets La petite galerie, Paris : Le couloir des ancêtres |
1986-1994 |
Drawings regularly published in “Le Monde Diplomatique” and other magazines. Creates Totopiok, the main character of a tale (English and French version, to be published) |