Adrian Schiess
The relationship of color and space is much more important to me than, for instance, it´s connection with form or illustration. Obviously color and form are related but the meaning of form is secondary in this respect. Painting is always bound up with matter, and so, depending on your point of view, there´s something bleak about it.
Adrian Schiess
For Adrian Schiess (1959, Switzerland) a picture is successful when the painter accomplishes both nature and a representation of nature. Within Adrian Schiess’ oeuvre, the paintings are variations of what his other works—the reflecting color boards, the photographs enlarged beyond recognition—have always dealt with: the emergence of the real. Within contemporary art, they show a commitment to abstraction, which, according to Adrian Schiess, is the only way to show that which is not subject to any determination extrinsic to itself.
