Alfredo Aceto, Simone Holliger, Raphael Linsi, Marie Matusz

Curated by Kiki Seiler-Michalitsi

The four solo exhibitions in the fall are dedicated to representatives of a young generation of artists who are meeting for the first time in a joint exhibition. Despite the differences in artistic practice, not only the specifically individual, but also the unavoidable commonalities, such as conceptual thinking that reflects on art and society, are presented.

Alfredo Aceto (*1991 in Turin/IT, lives in Lausanne) works with various media, such as painting, sculpture, drawing, film and sound. His sculptures, often enlarged remakes of representations of objects, move between utopia and reality, are ephemeral mirages of a surreal world of commodities, with a pop-like, decorative quality or an industrial aesthetic. Stripped of their original purpose or meaning, peppered with anecdotal or art-historical references, they allude to time, memory and desire, mutating into staged, humorous configurations of themselves.

Simone Holliger's (*1986 in Aarau, lives in Basel) artistic work deals with material research, which is based on drawing to find the form of spatial designs. For some years now, she has been using paper not only as a medium, but primarily as a building material. This results in small or bulky three-dimensional or Gestalten-like forms of precarious balance that oscillate between fragility and stability, lightness and heaviness, between drawing, painting and sculpture and are perceived as spatial drawings, reliefs, sculptures or spatial installations. The dialog with material, its properties, possibilities and limits characterize the creative process.

In his conceptually conceived works (photography, video, sculpture, installation), Raphael Linsi (*1982 in Zurich, lives in Berlin) deals with forms of representation of subjective perception and their relation to the documentary. He portrays his surroundings redundantly, gets lost, repeats himself, holds on to details, starts again from the beginning and makes the most subtle changes visible through these processes. In spatial compositions of enigmatic poetry, things of everyday use, ephemera and memory-awakening objects are often highlighted, transformed into autonomous artefacts and woven into documentary-fictional narratives.

Conceptual research inspired by philosophy, linguistics and phenomenology characterizes the work (sculptures and installations) of Marie Matusz (*1994 in Toulouse/FR, lives in Basel). An affinity for allegorical thinking and history, as well as reflections on the relationship between art and nature, on the influence of space and sound on the human body, also lead to objects and sculptures that initially seem enigmatic, which formulate questions and trigger food for thought. Using industrially manufactured materials such as aluminum, stainless steel, glass, mirrors, synthetic fabrics, etc., works of intellectual playfulness are created that react to architectural conditions and exhibition venues in a reduced formal language. Sounds and noises are further recurring elements in the young artist's work.