Bächli & Hattan's publication features the 1:1-scale reproduction of certain pieces exhibited during a joint show at Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris. The reproductions take the form of printed sheets that have been folded and inserted in a plastic sleeve. It comes with a booklet featuring an interview of the two artists by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser, along with a text by Patrick Javault.
Published following the eponymous exhibition at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, from April 28 to July 17, 2017.
Silvia Bächli (born 1956 in Baden) is a Swiss artist who, since the late 1970s, has committed to drawing as a continuous practice that is deeply dependent on and entangled with her body and its movements, both within the domestic sphere and the landscape. Her drawings, which she sees as words or notes with which she composes "musical phrases" on the wall,
can be read as traces of sensorial records—a walk on a field, a body that aches, a poem that triggers—and corporeal gestures—the extension of the arm, the strength of the hand or the rhythm of the brushstroke.
Eric Hattan (born 1955 in Wettingen, lives and works in Basel and Paris) gets involved in both public place
and private space through sculptures and
ephemeral installations, and plays with the
spectator by proposing contradictory visions
of one and the same reality. A postulate
whereby “art is neither a product not a solution”
but “a work of transformation” leads him
to operate in a real space within an existing
situation, to shift its data.
Edited by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser.
Text by Patrick Javault, interview with Silvia Bächli & Eric Hattan by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser.
Graphic design: Silvia Bächli, Eric Hattan, Jocelyne Fracheboud.
published in November 2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
25 x 34 cm (6 color posters of various dimensions in plastic sleeve), 12-page booklet
