Thierry Feuz
•••Thierry Feuz •••
El dorado
LIMN gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Swiss artist Thierry Feuz whose lacquer paintings are first a radical experimentation with materials. The subjects represented in his paintings are primarily justified by the possibilities they offer in terms of pictorial potential. Indeed, there are no specific guidelines, other than a constant fragile equilibrium of forms and colors, light and darkness which could, at any moment, be destroyed. Once Feuz has reached a momentum with the mixed mediums, these paintings are synonymous of a world of wonderful yet scary meanderings with neither time nor spatial limits. A diffused and gloomy light bathes this uncertain world of sprouting flowers, genetic experiments and magical mutations. It’s an explosion of life and forms which, from the infinitely far to the infinitely small, comes forth like fireworks. But, hidden behind the allures of a garden of Eden, monsters and traps lie; honey and poison argue the favors of a nature coming into form. The artist uses flowers as well as a pretext to play with the unmixed colors. The organic changes of the color intermingle on the canvas, bursting and pouring out into colored plasmas that tumble and swell in a sometimes dangerous way. ?At one point the painting evolves into an epidermal pleating and at another it looks like a network of vessels, cellular tissues or veining. By the richness of their tones and their multiple layers, his second series, Technicolor works play on the same principle of precarious equilibrium. They are larger, panoramic visions, new horizons looking at worlds being formed under tropical heat and marine air currents. Thierry Feuz lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland. This is his first solo show in California.
El dorado
LIMN gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Swiss artist Thierry Feuz whose lacquer paintings are first a radical experimentation with materials. The subjects represented in his paintings are primarily justified by the possibilities they offer in terms of pictorial potential. Indeed, there are no specific guidelines, other than a constant fragile equilibrium of forms and colors, light and darkness which could, at any moment, be destroyed. Once Feuz has reached a momentum with the mixed mediums, these paintings are synonymous of a world of wonderful yet scary meanderings with neither time nor spatial limits. A diffused and gloomy light bathes this uncertain world of sprouting flowers, genetic experiments and magical mutations. It’s an explosion of life and forms which, from the infinitely far to the infinitely small, comes forth like fireworks. But, hidden behind the allures of a garden of Eden, monsters and traps lie; honey and poison argue the favors of a nature coming into form. The artist uses flowers as well as a pretext to play with the unmixed colors. The organic changes of the color intermingle on the canvas, bursting and pouring out into colored plasmas that tumble and swell in a sometimes dangerous way. ?At one point the painting evolves into an epidermal pleating and at another it looks like a network of vessels, cellular tissues or veining. By the richness of their tones and their multiple layers, his second series, Technicolor works play on the same principle of precarious equilibrium. They are larger, panoramic visions, new horizons looking at worlds being formed under tropical heat and marine air currents. Thierry Feuz lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland. This is his first solo show in California.
