An artist with skin in the game
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An artist with skin in the game
Heidi Bucher: Beyond the Skins looks at an important yet overlooked artist's exploration with individualism. [Photo courtesy of Red Brick Art Museum] This same caption applies to and is the same for every picture except the last one.
After divorcing her husband in 1973, Swiss artist Heidi Bucher (1926-93) rented a former windowless underground frozen meat storage facility, in Zurich, and turned it into her workshop. There she began the career as an independent artist, and it became a place where she felt secure and discovered self-identity, embarking on a path to establish a pioneering style of her time.
Bucher was later known for making full use of latex to create works that dwell on family structures, individual memories and collective experiences of history and society. Over 100 works from her oeuvre, comprising drawings, collages and the "wearable sculptures" that she is famous for, as well as images, have been brought to a major retrospective show, at Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing through to Oct 8.
The exhibition, Heidi Bucher: Beyond the Skins , curated by the museum's founder and collector Yan Shijie, navigates through the artist's avant-garde experiments with the interactions between human psychology and the surroundings, gender, society and other topics. It includes those impressive installations of latex skins which Bucher made to represent the history and memories of individuals and to reflect on the bonds imposed on one by social rules.
Curatorial assistant Yan Zi said that Bucher's artworks are like "fossils" with great energies, "narrating the memories and traces of an era"; her works have thrived and stood the test of time to leave an "indelible and profound" mark.
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Heidi Bucher. [Photo courtesy of Red Brick Art Museum]
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I do love me some art, but I'm not really a fan of the avant garde.
Do you have a favourite classic painting? Mine is The Fighting Temeraire by J.M.W.Turner.
It's hard for me to pick favorites out of so many fanatic works for art... I am fascinated with Monet though.
I've not seen that painting before. Have you ever seen the movie "Gambit" starring Colin Firth?
No reply. Well, Gambit is about the counterfeiting of the Monet haystacks painting.
Will post a link to this article shortly.
Thank you. It's a bit avant garde I think - a pretty far out concept.
This creeps me out a little. I know it says latex is used in the art, but the use of the word 'skin' makes me think of something else, especially with her name being so close to 'butcher,' lol.
I was reminded of Ilsa Koch, wife of a Nazi in WWII, who had a lampshade made out of human skin from a concentration camp.
I agree with you. Although I noted how close her name was to "butcher", I totally forgot about The Bitch of Buchenwald.