A Day At The Shore

Ruth Bachofner Gallery is pleased to present A Day At The Shore, an exhibition of new paintings by Swiss artist Andy Denzler.

In the last three years and since receiving his masters degree from Chelsea College in London, Andy Denzler’s geometric abstractions have evolved into figurative works which will be presented in this exhibition. His current paintings reveal a dialogue with the past abstractions, but are now guided by the speculative nature of perception in his rich figurative works.

Figures referenced from mass media, photography, cinema and other areas of popular culture, are removed from their original contexts and placed into ambiguous spaces. Painted figures are aggressively distorted by the movement of a spatula across the surface, blurring the identities of his subjects. While the paintings continue to revel in the physicality of paint that Denzler aptly manipulates, his works now embody the furtiveness of memory and observation through implied movement of paint and hazy features.

In a recent catalogue Hans-Joachim Müller wrote: “What essentially determines these pictures is the perceptively critical elegance with which they undermine the violent act of seeing, their unfathomable doubt of that surety of perception...”

This is Andy Denzler’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. He also shows at von Braunberhens, Munich; Galerie Fabian & Claude Walter, Zurich, Flowers East, London, Filomena Soares, Lisbon and has an exhibition planned for Gallery Gana Art, Seoul. His work is part of numerous public and private collections including White Cube, London, The Burger Collection, Zurich and the White House.