Anna B. Wiesendanger - Zeichnungen

Galerie Gilla Loercher is very happy to present the
fascinating drawings of the Swiss artist, ANNA B.
WIESENDANGER. The artist, who lives in Basel and was
born in 1952, devotes herself mainly to the one medium:
drawing. For years she has developed a virtuoso system of
notation inspired by the perception of architectural and
spatial structures and transfers these into a kind of spatial
plan.

Sometimes there are cartographic-like sceneries in which
Anna B. Wiesendanger, in her own way, misses a
perspective or structures such as bridges, waterways or
buildings and then lays several perspectives on top of each
other, and allows the urban space in which we live to
become even more perceptible. The artist constructs a
network of linear outlines and perspectival constructions of
bodies and spaces with strong brush strokes and dynamic
lines.

In the large-format, 6-part work, ‘340989’, (1989) Anna B.
Wiesendanger deconstructs and constructs a space that can
simultaneously be seen as an interior and as the view of a
building. All the forms found in the space (bathtub, waste
pipe, lamps, furniture, TV, sewing machine...) appear freed
of their proportions and only their outlines and each
resulting perspective become elements of a visionary spatial
solution. The objects’ outlines are overlaid in numerous
layers so that a thicket develops in which the ‘thing-ness’ of
all found objects is reduced to absurdity, and the resulting
spatial perspectives can only be read fragmentarily and only
for a moment. (Text: Gilla Lörcher)