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bis 26.10. | #4352ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger presents from 14th September 2024 the exhibition Le Rhin by the artist Caroline Bachmann.
If one begins the exhibition tour on the first floor and then goes down to the ground floor, one follows the course of the river from Reichenau to Rotterdam. Caroline Bachmann travelled along the river twice for her Rhine series. Together, the 24 paintings create a portrait of the river from different perspectives. As if you were looking through the porthole of a ship, through a telescope or a keyhole, Bachmann frames her depictions of the Rhine in round frames.
24 views of the Rhine are not a lot when you compare this number with the number of pictures of Lake Geneva that Bachmann has painted to date. The decision to start painting landscapes in the 2000s, as Bachmann did at the time, certainly took courage.
During her trips along the Rhine, she produced around 100 sketches, from which she selected 24 and turned them into paintings in her studio in Cully. While landscape painters such as Ferdinand Hodler or Giovanni Segantini always painted plein air, i.e. in the open air, Bachmann preferred to go into her “cave”, as she called her studio. This separation from the original experience of nature – working in artificial light without a direct view of the landscape – is essential for Bachmann’s painting process, which is a very slow one. This way of working means that her paintings are fuelled by different experiences of time: The speed of sketching is replaced by the lengthy process of painting, during which the artist slowly resurrects the spontaneous experience of nature that she had while sketching. With this working method, which focusses on the superimposition of different temporal levels, Bachmann ultimately has something to add to the history of landscape painting.
Opening: Friday, 13. September 2024, 6 – 10 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 14. September until Saturday, 26. October 2024
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Caption title image: Caroline Bachmann, Le Rhin XXIII, Detail, 2024, Oil on wood, 60 cm.
Exhibition Caroline Bachmann– Meyer Riegger | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
