Matthias Bosshard

Matthias Bosshard is a Swiss artist who works with materials that are marked by life, such as driftwood, stones, metal, discarded cans, and bones. He relates them to each other in such a way that they become charged with new meaning and gain a strong presence through their sensual accessibility. In the peculiarities of materials and objects, the artist discover a spectrum of possibilities while manifesting creation. Matthias tries to extract the essence of things and work out their uniqueness. Through the changing of spatial references, moving objects live, breathe, make time, and come alive, allowing us to momentarily forget the pull of the future and the past..

ARTIST STATEMENT

I explore mobiles, unstable equilibriums and the process of centering by balance. The complexity, and often centrifugally perceived forces, in daily life makes inner contemplation, orientation and centering particularly important. I am creating supposedly stable spatial structures, which evoke in all their absurdity a sense of fragility. The complex network that dances through the space offers to be explored by the eye. To deepen the experience, the viewer is invited to a visual journey which turns into a balancing act where the room level becomes a time domain.

I find what falls in my lap and show it anew, looking for the life in the dead material. In a sort of search for evidence or recollection, I carve out the essence of the objects, show their singularities and enhance them through combination and reduction. Upcycling, if you will.