exhibition

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Arnold Annen (born in 1952) is a guest in the Marianne Heller Gallery for the second time since 2014. This time, Annen is accompanied by Violette Fassbaender (born in 1958), with whom he shares his life and his workshop. At first glance, a viewer of works by these two Swiss artists primarily notices their differences: Arnold Annen's translucent, thin-walled, seemingly floating white bowls and objects are made of porcelain; Violette Fassbaender's exciting, self-contained bodies consist of porcelain and stoneware. But closer and repeated observation reveals their affinities. Both artists present us with erratic boulders from the realm of the invisible, seemingly made only of light; highly fired and very hard porcelain membranes; sculptures resembling single-celled organisms reminiscent of our oceanic origins; relics of the Earth's history composed of Matterhorns and moraine landscapes of the imagination: perfect, ingenious craftsmanship in the service of great art.