Ulrich Elsener - Visages/Paysages: Alpes, Alpen, Alpi
Halter, Jürg / Omlin, Sibylle / Langella, Patrizia / Elsener, Ulrich
The subtly elaborated ink drawings which Ulrich Elsener creates on maps connect the physiognomy of the human body with the topography of the landscape. These works engender multiple resonances: from James Lovelook's Gaia theory, which equates the world viewed as an organism with the human body, all the way to far-eastern philosophies with their abrogation of the object-subject dichotomy.
Concerning these pictures, Sibylle Omlin writes: "Elsene...