BÉATRICE
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Béatrice Gysin's drawings are localizations of the artist's presence—planes devoid of evident meaning—or, as she calls them, "traces of an intensely experienced uneventfulness". Occasionally there are suggestions of identifiable detail that open a wide range of associations. Viewers become an integral part of the work by relating perceptions to memories. Still, the uncertainty remains. The graphic density of the work requires direct visualization. After years of focusing on pencil drawing as her medium the artist began using color in 2014. In a long intensive drawing process dense color fields are built up that oscillate between meaning and non-meaning. Slowly, over long periods of time a distinctive world emerges in the field of drawing.
Béatrice Gysin is a draftsperson in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. After studying graphic design in Zurich she lived and worked in Paris for seven years, then moved to Bern, Switzerland. A residency at the Cité des Arts and several return visits there confirmed Paris' status as a second home for the artist. The city's museums and everyday reality are a constant source of inspiration for her. In 2005 she moved to Biel/Bienne. Her studio in this small bi-lingual city is an ideal place of retreat and a starting point for travels into the world which later may leave visible traces on sheets of paper. Drawing is the focus of her interest and the starting point of everything. Some drawings reach into space, materialize in different media and condense into specific statements in the guise of installations. Béatrice Gysin is very interested in language—both her German mother tongue and, for some years now, Russian as a foreign language—and it shows in her work. Her drawings are represented in the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, in the Bosshard Collection, in the Kunstzeughaus Rapperswil, and in various other public and private collections in Switzerland. |
