Albrecht Schnider

(*1958, Switzerland)

Albrecht Schnider’s visual art has evolved between the two divergent poles of drawing and painting. Or rather, it has charted a course from free and spontaneous drawing, as a starting point, towards the execution of painted of images with a truly iconic radiance.

Albrecht Schnider, Untitled, 2020

Schnider's drawings are created with the greatest possible freedom and autonomy, whereby all compositional or design intent is secondary and each line is created with the greatest possible immediacy, flowing directly from the hand, in the spirit of écriture automatique.

Albrecht Schnider, Untitled, 2020

“I never have the feeling of living as intensely as when I draw.”

Trailer Albrecht Schnider - Was Bleibt

Such an approach to drawing does not involve the abstraction of some external object, but is more a case of finding form through thought-free execution. Drawing thus becomes a daily exercise involving countless sheets of paper, most of which end up being destroyed and only a few retained, while fewer still are translated into paintings and images.

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