"ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM -EARTH PICTURES" -Rolf Iseli -Original Painting -1970's -Signed
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM - EARTH PICTURES
Rolf Iseli - Original Painting - 1970's - Signed 22x30"
This stunning 22x30" signed painting from the 1970s is part of a rare and remarkable collection that was stored for over 50 years in a retired Manhattan art gallery. The work is by Rolf Iseli, a leading exponent of the Tachisme movement in Switzerland and one of the most important representatives of the artistic avant-garde in the country during the second half of the 20th century.
After a long period of working in sculpture and objects, Iseli turned to the "earth pictures" in the 1970s, inspired by his vineyards in Saint-Romain, Burgundy. These powerful apocalyptic landscapes depict man and his natural environment, with earth as the primary material and a new starting point for expressiveness. Iseli's "earth pictures" are imbued with a sense of mythic power, the birth-giving Mother, and the terrain where the human being lives.
This captivating painting offers a unique glimpse into Iseli's exploration of the profound relationship between man and nature during this pivotal period in his artistic career.
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM - EARTH PICTURES
Rolf Iseli - Original Painting - 1970's - Signed 22x30"
This stunning 22x30" signed painting from the 1970s is part of a rare and remarkable collection that was stored for over 50 years in a retired Manhattan art gallery. The work is by Rolf Iseli, a leading exponent of the Tachisme movement in Switzerland and one of the most important representatives of the artistic avant-garde in the country during the second half of the 20th century.
After a long period of working in sculpture and objects, Iseli turned to the "earth pictures" in the 1970s, inspired by his vineyards in Saint-Romain, Burgundy. These powerful apocalyptic landscapes depict man and his natural environment, with earth as the primary material and a new starting point for expressiveness. Iseli's "earth pictures" are imbued with a sense of mythic power, the birth-giving Mother, and the terrain where the human being lives.
This captivating painting offers a unique glimpse into Iseli's exploration of the profound relationship between man and nature during this pivotal period in his artistic career.
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM - EARTH PICTURES
Rolf Iseli - Original Painting - 1970's - Signed 22x30"
This stunning 22x30" signed painting from the 1970s is part of a rare and remarkable collection that was stored for over 50 years in a retired Manhattan art gallery. The work is by Rolf Iseli, a leading exponent of the Tachisme movement in Switzerland and one of the most important representatives of the artistic avant-garde in the country during the second half of the 20th century.
After a long period of working in sculpture and objects, Iseli turned to the "earth pictures" in the 1970s, inspired by his vineyards in Saint-Romain, Burgundy. These powerful apocalyptic landscapes depict man and his natural environment, with earth as the primary material and a new starting point for expressiveness. Iseli's "earth pictures" are imbued with a sense of mythic power, the birth-giving Mother, and the terrain where the human being lives.
This captivating painting offers a unique glimpse into Iseli's exploration of the profound relationship between man and nature during this pivotal period in his artistic career.
Biography
Born 1934 in Bern/Switzerland
1950-1954 Apprenticeship as photo and colour lithographer
1957 and 1963 Federal Art Scholarship
1959 Participates in documenta 2, Kassel, and the Biennale de Paris
1962 in New York
1971 Participation in the exhibition The Swiss Avant Garde at the Cultural Center New York
1972 Participation in documenta 5
1975 Participation in the Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
1978 Large survey exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Kunstverein Braunschweig
1990-1991 Solo exhibition at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne
1993 solo exhibition at the Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno
2009/2010 Solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern
Lives and works in Bern/Switzerland and in Saint-Romain/France
Rolf Iseli is one of the best-known contemporary Swiss artists. Through the creation of informal oil paintings in the post-war period, sculptures and objects in the context of Pop Art and collages and assemblages at the beginning of the 1970s, he finally made the transition to the material image. Since then, Iseli's art has been situated between the art genres. In ever new ways, always committed to the work process, Iseli incorporates natural and man-made materials as well as everyday objects in many different mixed forms into his works. His recurring theme is man and his natural habitat: in vast end-time landscapes, the figure emerges as a primordial being - the antithesis man-nature is suspended and shaped and conceived as a synthesis.
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