PRESS RELEASE
Tashi Brauen
Bending Forms
Ronewa Art Gallery
Opening: Thursday, May 18, 2017
Exhibition: May 19, - June 10, 2017
Text by Christi Dufour
Ronewa Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of prints and installations by young contemporary Swiss artist Tashi Brauen. The showing of some dozen works by the artist, known for his manipulations of humble paper to create formalist and intriguing sculptural forms both on and off the wall, includes two new site-specific installations created especially for Ronewa’s Berlin gallery. The Zurich-based artist spent a week on location creating museum-scale wall pieces that are boldly painted in highly saturated primary colors with enamel paint on paper respectively. Titled Reliefs Nos. 3 and 4, these works command their spaces and envelop the viewer's field of vision. Creases and folds of the expertly shaped and hung works combine with light and shadow to create animated surfaces and contours as the artist’s use of paper becomes highly sculptural and monumental.
