Artists: Linus Bill, Adrien Horni, Simone Holliger, Marine Julié, Simon Paccaud
Exhibition title: La fine ligne
Venue: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Date: January 25 – April 5, 2020
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
The group exhibition «La fine ligne» unites four artistic positions in a joint project, which despite different approaches maintain comparable aesthetic attitudes. The exhibition is based on new productions, some of which have been realized specifically for the rooms of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, and pursues the idea of an interlacing and overlapping of forms and artistic languages. It is not only a balancing act, but also a questioning of the various, often artificial boundaries between drawing and painting, the hierarchies between materials such as marble and paper, or the fluid definitions from the modern to the contemporary.
The invited artists were all born in the 1980s and are active in Switzer-land and/or have been educated at Swiss art schools. To speak of a genera-tion would be too ambitious, but they all seem to be interested in the boundaries of genres and materials in their work. It is precisely around this ‹fine ligne› – invisible border and perhaps also a drawing gesture – that they develop their works. Thus Linus Bill + Adrien Horni collectively work on images, alienate and rearrange them and unite – not without a cer-tain humour – prints and sculpture. Simone Holliger works with paper and uses it to create room-filling sculptures that make us forget the fragility of the material and expose the epic gesture of male sculpting as ridicu-lous. Marine Julié, in turn, focuses on painting, for which she uses simple lines to create a timeless and genderless universe that hovers between cave painting and the New York Street Art of the 1980s. Finally, Simon Paccaud reflects on today’s visual environment and abstraction by using a wide va-riety of media and techniques and questioning the principle of authorship in collective work.
Marine Julié, La Nuit, 2020. Courtesy: the artist. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Exhibition view «La fine ligne», with works from Marine Julié and Simon Paccaud. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Exhibition view «La fine ligne», with works from Marine Julié and Simon Paccaud. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Scuplture, p.15, 2018. Courtesy: Acrush, Zurich. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Exhibition view «La fine ligne», with works from Simon Paccaud, Simone Holliger and Linus Bill + Adrien Horni. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Simone Holliger, Green frame figure, 2020. Courtesy: the artist; Gallery Nicolas Krupp, Basel. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Simone Holliger, Green frame figure (detail), 2020. Courtesy: the artist; Gallery Nicolas Krupp, Basel. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Exhibition view «La fine ligne», with works from Simone Holliger, Linus Bill + Adrien Horni and Simon Paccaud. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Exhibition view «La fine ligne», with works from Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Simon Paccaud and Marine Julié. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Exhibition view «La fine ligne», with works from Simon Paccaud and Marine Julié. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Simone Holliger, Skulptur (neu verhandelt), 2020. Courtesy: the artist; Gallery Nicolas Krupp, Basel. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Simone Holliger, Skulptur (neu verhandelt), 2020. Courtesy: the artist; Gallery Nicolas Krupp, Basel. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Simone Holliger, Skulptur (neu verhandelt), 2020. Courtesy: the artist; Gallery Nicolas Krupp, Basel. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Exhibition view «La fine ligne», with works from Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Marine Julié and Simon Paccaud. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Simon Paccaud, Cellular 20, 2020. Courtesy: the artist. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Exhibition view «La fine ligne», with works from Linus Bill + Adrien Horni. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Exhibition view «La fine ligne», with works from Linus Bill + Adrien Horni and Marine Julié. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Exhibition view «La fine ligne», with works from Linus Bill + Adrien Horni. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Bronze, p. 329, 381, 2020. Courtesy: Construction and Transport Directorate of the Canton of Bern, Office for Land and Buildings. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Exhibition view «La fine ligne», with works from Marine Julié and Linus Bill + Adrien Horni. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
Marine Julié, Le Chat, 2020. Courtesy: the artist. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sebastian Schaub
