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 Vivian Suter for Ricola Suter’s first institutional solo show at the Charterhouse of Ittingen, the Kunstmuseum of Canton Thurgau, in 1983 was accompanied by a catalogue in which the art critic Bice Curiger felt moved to quote one of the artist’s own songs – “Good grief, this is me” – and hailed her “physical and physiognomical relation to painting, colour, and shapes”. In Panajachel, the artist paints in two simple studios, both of which are in the jungle. The photographs she took for Ricola show both her open studio surrounded by dense vegetation and the paintings she was working on at the time. Viewed in a positive light, the forces of her immediate environment, above all the vitality and presence of nature – the plants, the animals, the elements – as well as her own precarious situation as an artist, are both compass and conduit enabling her to channel her creative powers and express herself in her art. The openness of her studio reflects her view of paintings as open-ended. Her output can thus be understood as a coherent, quasi-natural process that gives rise to numerous, mainly large-format works. Displayed in exhibitions, these works in their turn become elements of an all-inclusive whole, allowing them to be variously juxtaposed, aligned, layered and superimposed.  back...  download photograph (PDF: 2 MB)
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