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‹Homebase?›: Erik Dettwiler, Andrea Loux, Verena Schwab, Markus Schwander Erik Dettwiler belongs to the great connoisseurs of the Balkans. Numerous travels lead him through former Yugoslavia, Albania and Macedonia. He roams in these territories and searches motives, which he can process via photography and video. He enables an unexpected gaze in a long «closed» world – profound and some times astonishingly humorous. Andrea Loux has close links with Berlin. Her works are concerned with great topics of the interior in the most different realizations. Ink drawings, then photos or recently also collages. Her collages are created with finds of old furniture catalogs and are overworked supplementary with gouache, graphite pencil or India ink. Verena Schwab travels a lot to Italy – solitary landscapes or cleared vegetable markets form the idea pool for many of her works. «Rescue Study» is a poetic approach to the life. Wrapped in a warming lifesaver foil the artist placed herself as a glimmering sculpture in an idyllic landscape. A video and corresponding photos illuminate different phases of the performance. Markus Schwander has numerous contacts to South Africa. Again and again you can find in his works an examination of this country – particularly obvious in his drawings. His plastic work fits optimally in the graphics; enlarged chewing gums enable an unusual macro view, the supposed formless becomes an unexpected topography. The positions are medially very different and still there is a beautiful general view and an extremely exciting insight into the actual Swiss art tendencies. Bernhard Bischoff, August 2004
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