Franz Bucher. Bildfelder

Flower fields, energy fields, pictorial fields: new works by Swiss painter Franz Bucher

In recent years, Swiss artist Franz Bucher, born in 1940, has produced an extensive series of paintings which he simply titles Fields: lavender, dandelion, rapeseed, and poppy fields congruent with the canvas to form a pictorial field. Yet Bucher's objective is not primarily the pictorial. Rather, it is more about the two-dimensional space which is given an inherent structure by the largely monochromatic primary colors he uses, as well as his dynamic brushstroke. It becomes apparent that most of the artist's oeuvre since the early 1970s has been determined by the metrical rhythm in his use of color. Bucher's paintings constitute actual energy fields.

This new monograph offers a retrospective of Bucher's entire body of work from the vantage point of his recent pictorial fields. It thus illustrates his true artistic intentions independently of the context of his chosen motifs.

Autorentext

Beat Stutzer ist Kunsthistoriker und war 1982 2011 Direktor des Bündner Kunstmuseums Chur sowie 1998 2016 Konservator des Segantini Museums St. Moritz. Seit 2011 ist er Inhaber des Büros K&K Kunst und Kommunikation und als freischaffender Autor und Kurator in Luzern tätig.

Zusammenfassung

Flower fields, energy fields, pictorial fields: new works by Swiss painter Franz Bucher