With the Andreas Waldmeier exhibition, Kromya Art Gallery opens its own section dedicated to young emerging artists and named •YOUNG
Waldmeier (Richterswil, 1982), trained at the Zurich University of the Arts, brings a site-specific project designed specifically for Kromya to Lugano Art Gallery with a group of new works. For Waldmeier the relationship of his works with the environment in which they find themselves is fundamental. The projects are first sketched virtually and then executed on the canvas, deciding step by step limitations of shapes, colors and order. He creates a predefined path for this exhibition, confirming the importance he gives to his pictorial power to interact with the walls of the gallery and to attract the visitor. The latter is transported on a journey that ranges from large canvases to painted walls, from abstract sculptures to small divided paintings that produce a reality that is specific to the author. The project becomes a total expression of his painting, which qualifies itself with the participation of the spectator; Waldmeier considers the space an integral part of his vision, raising or canceling the wall through signs and painting. The visitor enters physically into an overall pictorial universe. Waldmeier describes his painting as linguistic, that is, as an expressive medium. For him the same is a kind of study of the possibilities and their limitations. Often the division between two panels leads to a dialogue between opposing elements united by a fast and decisive pictorial gesture. This translates into complex configurations of images, forms, figures, fragments of a story or a pictorial tradition that provide only an idea of the complex world of the artist.
Each work is to be considered as a singular event, to which the visitor's vision tries to make sense through a discovery process; the eye wanders over the pictorial surface, thinking that it is capable of identifying and naming something, but will not be able to find its meaning as it is part of a total work of art. We are shown to us enigmatic and impenetrable creations, a place, an in-between in which we are suspended between the search for meaning and the meaning itself.
22 may – 2 august 2019