Tashi Brauen’s interest lies in observing the characteristics of objects in relation to people and everyday materials. He combines amorphous structures with geometrical forms: "I am interested in working with common materials and transforming them into a new form. It’s an attempt to give a new view on different contemporary materials and shapes which are surrounding us."
At the heart of Brauen’s practice is a study about materials and their surfaces reacting with different interventions: "When I use a new material it’s always an experiment. I start with bending and folding the new material, observing its characteristics. At the end my intention is to keep the interventions to a minimum."
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WATCH MIRANDA K. METCALF'S INTERVIEW WITH SWISS-TIBETAN ARTIST TASHI BRAUEN AT HIS STUDIO IN ZURICH, SWITZERLAND.
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Ronewa Art Projects | SAC Gallery
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Installation views
Hold On to That Paper Again
SAC Gallery
APRIL 8 - MAY 22, 2021
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"When I use a new material it’s always an experiment. I start with bending and folding the new material, observing its characteristics. At the end my intention is to keep the interventions to a minimum."
- Tashi Brauen
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"My new ideas always come out of experimentation... I really enjoy working this way."
- Tashi Brauen
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"As an everyday material that we have used since childhood, paper is easy and natural to work with. I like the stability, on the one hand. On the other, I can make a new fold and change it very fast."
- Tashi Brauen
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“The Du series is printmaking but in a very primitive way… I like the process of creating something new by combining different pages and seeing how the paint and the images respond to each other.”
- Tashi Brauen
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Press Release
Tashi Brauen – Hold on to That Paper Again
Ronewa Art Projects | SAC Gallery
April 22, 2021
SAC Gallery and Ronewa Art Projects present Hold on to That Paper Again, an exhibition of recent works by Swiss-Tibetan artist Tashi Brauen. Opening on April 8, 2021, the solo show brings together two series of works on paper, united by Brauen’s mark-making interventions that master a fine balance between intentional actions and spontaneous forms.
Brauen engages his everyday materials in a back and forth conversation, testing their response to his subtle manipulations. His sculptural approach to paper interrogates the physical quality of its surface and structure. For his Cracks series, Brauen paints vibrant color fields that become intersected with the textured lines of the paper’s broken surface as he bends and folds it. Some of these fractures appear like bolts of lightning tearing through the colored surface to the paper beneath, while others are soft creases warping the flat surfaces...
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