Oana Ivan Gallery Presents Bruno Suter’s Exhibition ‘Small is big’
Inaugurated on February 12th, the exhibition presents a group of drawings that function both as autonomous works and as the point of origin for the paintings. Emerging from a process of direct engagement, they bear witness to the immediacy of the gesture and to a transitional moment in the treatment of reality. From the abstract drawings of 1995, which explore the relationship between gesture and color, to the ink drawings produced in 2011, the line gradually approaches writing, eventually merging with the depiction of wild grasses and vegetal forms. Each painting originates in a small drawing on paper, which is then transferred onto canvas using the grid technique. This shift from an intimate scale to a monumental format does not alter the image but reveals its structure, rhythm, and expressive force.
Following the exhibitions devoted to Peter Knapp and Gilles Bensimon, Bruno Suter’s exhibition clearly forms part of a continuity at the crossroads of art, communication, graphic design, and image-making. It extends a shared reflection on visual forms and their modes of circulation, while also revealing another essential dimension of Oana Ivan Gallery’s program: a network of genuine affinities, intersecting trajectories, and collaborations forged over time.
At the opening, we met Bruno Ménager, Bob Swaim, Mathilde Warusfel, Anna Savkin, Guillaume Cuiry, and Peter Knapp.
Photos: Karla Vinter Koch
