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“Ernesto Baltiswiler: Natur, Erinnerung/ Nature and reminiscence”
Ulrich Krempel - Director/Curator of the Sprengel Museum Hannover
“Baltiswilers Malerei ist von extremer Subjektivität und Gesammeltheit”/ ”Baltiswiler’s paintings manifest an extreme subjectiveness and collectedness”
Ernesto Baltiswiler’s paintings are hermetic, selfcontained visualizations of processes which do not lend themselves to conjectural interpretation unless we regard them in their entirety. Here the occasional reference in one or other of the titles may help us to associate the painting – however mistakenly – with ordinary reality, but how can such titles as “In i skogen” (In the Middle of the Forest), “Segelskuta i storm” (Sailing Boat in a Storm), “Minne av Spetsbergen” (Memory of Spitzbergen) or “Ficklampa i skogen” (Flashlight in the Forest) help us if we cannot in any way relate them to pictures which, in their very autonomy, waive all that is visually representational, associatively depictive?
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Book “Ernesto Baltiswiler”
Natur, Erinnerung/ Nature and reminiscence
Düsseldorf, 1992
Design: Anders Ljungman, Stockholm
Text: Ulrich Krempel, Düsseldorf
Portrait: Snezana Vucetic, Stockholm
Printer: Plitt Druck – Druck und Verlag GmbH, Oberhausen
ISBN 3-924560-04-8
Ernesto Baltiswiler
Untitled, 41.5 x 28.5 cm, mixed technique on cardboard, 1992
Collection Ulrich Krempel, Hannover, Germany
Gerhard Mack, Editor for art and architecture, NZZ am Sonntag and author of the complete works of Herzog & de Meuron.
Christa Häusler, Häusler Contemporary, Munich and Zürich
Beatrix Ruf, Director/ Curator of the Kunsthalle Zürich
Madeleine Schuppli, Director/ Curator of the Aargauer Kunsthaus
Regula Lendenmann, Kunstbulletin
Corinne Schatz, Artis
Andres Züst/ Patrick Frey, Bekannte Bekannte I + II
