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JACQUELINE BACHMANN

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JACQUELINE BACHMANN paintings

October 12-30, 2022

Jacqueline Bachmann’s Natural Epiphanies

by John Austin

Jacqueline Bachmann’s mythic imagery that bespeaks of an animistic communion with the forces of nature will remind the viewer of Northop Frye’s famous paraphrasing of Mircea Eliade’s writings on myths. Frye notes that the central symbolism and the central conception of myths and rituals is that a renewal in time is normally thought of as a renewal of time.

The recalling and the recapitulation of sacred places within sacred time which is captured in the artist’s lates paintings. Her work celebrates and heralds the imaginative patterns of the movements of natural forces. Her work, while its pantheistic aura might easily be traced back to the German Romantics’ deep empathy with nature and later to the Transcendentalist movement’s roots in American landscape painting, particularly the Hudson River School painters in the nineteenth century, harkens to a pre-Edenic sense of oneness with the environment. Bachmann’s images are evocations of the deep symbolism of life, disappearance and rebirth embedded within the cycles of nature.

Historically speaking there is a strong universal natural theology at work here, an animistic principle, that reminds the viewer of the elemental pictorial forms of the transcendental work of early modernist artists such as Arthur Dove, the strongly delineated imagery of Rockwell Kent, and artists from Canada’s Group of Seven such as Dorothy Carr, David Milne and Lawren S. Harris. Indeed, the strongly sculptural impulse in the Jacqueline Bachmann’s works make them immediately recognizable as well as intensely realized.

It is worth devoting a bit of time to look at the structurally sound pictorial strategy the artist employs throughout her work. She adroitly translates the essential shapes of trees, rocks and water strams into enigmatic paintings. Veins of color isolate and intensify detached lines and shapes and at the same time, become equivalents for light. Thus, her formal innovation offers us sensations of breathtaking views, vertiginous and strong flows of cascading water currents --- imagery that is simultaneously benign and awesome.

Through Bachmann’s compositional and shading expertise identifiable and localized place becomes transcendent space while historical and indexical time freezes and shifts into primordial and immemorial time. The artist’s works transmutes and transforms: the materiality of the world so fervently recorded becomes transubstantiated into the world of pure presence. Materiality becomes immateriality. The pictorial codes of mimesis and representation are re-presented through the lens of Friedrich von Schelling’s natur-philosophie. Through this ideological framework a deep coherence is seen as underlying all phenomena and Nature is the embodiment of an eternal Idea. .

John Austin is an art critic living and working in Manhattan.

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Cenote et mystère, 2021, oil on canvas, 39” x 27.5”

Cenote Bacalar, 2022, oil on canvas, 41” x 30”

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Courant d’algues, 2005, oil on canvas, 37.5” x 42”

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Introspection, 2009, oil on canvas, 39” x 27.5”

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Méandre Mansoon season, 2006, oil on canvas, 41” x 35”

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Midnight hours, 2019, oil on canvas, 39” x 39”

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Vertige, 2007, oil on canvas, 41” x 32”

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Quand la mer se retire, 2004, oil on canvas, 41” x 36”

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Visions Petra, 2010, oil on canvas, 31” x 23.5”

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Mystère aquatique, 2018, oil on canvas, 41” x 33”

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Temps marbré, 2009, oil on canvas, 27.5” x 39”

Sillons lac, 2007, oil on canvas, 29.5 x 29.5”

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Veines du temps, 2009, oil on canvas, 27.5” x 39”

Sillons verts, 2007, oil on canvas, 29.5 x 29.5”

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SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2023 2023 2022 2022 2022 2021 2020 2019 2019 2019 2018 2018 2017 2016-14 2016 2016 2015 2014 2013-09 2012 2012 2012-08 2011 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 1987 1979

Villa Dutoit, Geneva, Switzerland Gallery Bleu de Chine, Fleurier, Switzerland Artifact Gallery, New York, USA Kunsthandlung Pigmento Gallery, Luzern, Switzerland Library Julien, Geneva, Switzerland Artraction, Lausanne, Switzerland FATart Fair, Women in arts, Schaffhausen, Switzerland Art Gallery, Verbier, Switzerland Humanit’Art Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland Art is Gallery, Büren a.A., Switzerland Bise Möbel, les Automnales, Bulle + Tavel, Switzerland Bienal de Florence, Italie The Connoisseur’s Gallery, Paris, France Gallery Art’monie Geneva, Switzerland Mines d’art Gallery, Carouge/GE, Switzerland Cariou Fondation, Manosque, France Edouard Roch Gallery, Ballens, Switzerland Gallery art net.ch, Begnins, Switzerland Kunsthandlung Pigmento Gallery, Luzern, Switzerland Service Industriel (SIG), Geneva, Switzerland Plexus Gallery, Fribourg, Switzerland Gallery la Grange, Romainmôtier, Switzerland CarArt, Garage Emil Frey, Crissier, Switzerland Plexus Gallery, Montreux, Switzerland Gallery art net.ch, Begnins, Switzerland Brennwald & Partner Society, Zurich, Switzerland Restaurant Barocco, Art & History Museum, Geneva, Switzerland Gallery 2016, Hauterive / NE, Switzerland Gallery la Tour, Bulle, Switzerland Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon les Bains, France Hotel Hilton, Khartoum, Sudan French Alliance, Florianopolis, Brazil

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 2022 2020 2017-07 2012 2011 2006-04 2005

Swiss Society Women Artist, Leuk Schloss, Leuk, Switzerland Swiss Society of Fine arts, Chapelle des Arts, Geneva, Switzerland Women’s talent, Maison de la Culture, Sciez, France Collective artists for the 150 & 160 years of Swiss Society of Fine arts, Geneva « Floralis », 4 artists in the Gallery la Grange, Romainmôtier, Switzerland « Rathania’s Arts Similis Casus » Rath Museum, Geneva, Switzerland Europ’Art, Collective of Swiss Society of Fine arts, Geneva, Switzerland « Les Paravents » Centre d’Art en l’Ile, Geneva, Switzerland

Agents representing Jacqueline Bachmann: Gabriella Affolter, president SSFA, Berne; Artraction Society, Geneva; Alix Martin

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This catalog has been published in conjunction with the exhibition of artwork by Jacqueline Bachmann.

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