Caroline Bachmann
Caroline Bacmann
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Focus: Imagined Landscapes, Symbols, and paintings of her friends
WORK IN PROGRESS,… still writing this.
About Caroline Bachmann:
I don't know anything about Caroline Bachmann.
I found her work while browsing the Meyer-Riegger website looking for another artist, Alma Feldhandler. One thing I enjoy doing is following the trail a gallery leaves behind. If I like one artist they represent, chances are there are several others worth spending time with.
The exhibition centered on landscapes contained within secondary, edge-of-the-canvas forms. Of the paintings I saw, Risée Croissant de Lune stayed with me.
Risee Croissant De Lune, 2021
What interests me isn't simply the image, but the decisions behind it. The painting feels as though it exists somewhere between symbol, representation, and abstraction. This is not a conventional landscape. Instead it feels like the product of someone who has spent years quietly dismantling their assumptions about landscapes.
Spend a few moments looking at it.
Is that a horizon line of mountains? Clouds? Is that a reflection in a lake? What is going on?
It's almost like looking at a landscape painted by someone who learned what landscapes were through description rather than experience.
What I find especially compelling is the fleshy pink border surrounding the image. It doesn't read as architecture or a decorative frame. It feels biological. The form reminds me of a wound that healed long ago, leaving behind only the memory of its opening. And then the opening is this discerned landscape.
