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ABSTRACT EYES

Galerie Polomarco presents “Abstract Eyes”, an exhibition curated by Daniel Maury, exploring abstraction in contemporary Swiss art.

Originating in avant-garde circles at the beginning of the 20th century, abstract art became the most radical art form of all, a symbol of absolute modernity and a break with tradition.

By liberating form and color, this movement opened the way to an infinite range of possibilities that artists have cultivated for over a century, right up to the present day. “Abstract Eyes” focuses on the contemporary views of Amandine Baud, Nathalie Delhaye, Gaël Epiney, Abigail Janjic and Peter Stoffel, five Swiss artists who have each experimented with abstraction from singular perspectives.

This exhibition invites us to explore the boundaries and artistic individuality of these creators, defining diversity and innovation in this exciting field of contemporary art.

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ABIGAIL JANJIC

Based in Geneva, Abigail Janjic (1989, Stockholm) is an artist working in the mediums of painting, sculpture and contemporary dance. Her artistic approach is an exploration of the infinite spectrum of movement and its profound relationship to the human body. For this exhibition, the artist worked on a series of five paintings on wood, with painted fronts, backs and edges. Each piece is a unique organism expressing a singular energy in motion through a labyrinth of powerful visual contrasts and subtle interconnected nuances. Abigail Janjic’s abstraction translates the energy of our world, where chaos is balanced and balance is chaotic.

Abigail Janjic began her academic training with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts at HEAD, Geneva, which she obtained in 2012. That same year, she won the Prix Théodore Strawinsky. In 2014, she studied a Master in Textil in Expended Field at Konstfack, Stockholm where she won the Nils Johan Sjöstedts Stiftelse prize. In 2017, she completed her studies with a Master in Visual Arts at l’écal, Lausanne. Abigail Janjic now works at the Maison des Arts du Grütli, where she has been awarded an artistic residency until 2025.

AMANDINE BAUD

Amandine Baud (1990, Geneva) develops her artistic practice around several media, including drawing, painting and sculpture. In her work, we find the theme of humanity analyzed through the question of the senses, the notion of trace, but also the complexity of human relations within the private domestic space. Indeed, these intimate, enclosed spaces of social interaction play an important role in the construction of a human being. From traumatic scars to happy memories, the domestic space is the cradle of the traces that remain with us. In this new series of paintings, abstraction translates the imprint of an intimate space in all the subtlety of its reconstruction.

Amandine Baud graduated in 2009 from the CFP arts, Geneva, with a Maturité professionnelle artistique and a CFC in design. In 2013, she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from HEAD, Geneva. Between 2019 and 2022, she studied for a Bachelor’s degree at the City and Guilds of London Art School, London. In 2020, she is laureate of the theme “The Human Figure” at Saatchi Gallery, London.

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NATHALIE DELHAYE

Based at Carrières du Lessus in Saint-Triphon, VD, Nathalie Delhaye (1966, La Chaux-de-Fonds, NE) is an artist whose preferred medium is stone sculpture. Far from the comfort of certain workshops, it is in the noise, dust and elements that the artist works on blocks of stone weighing up to several tonnes. His artistic approach is notably linked to his experience of synesthesia, a condition that enables him to perceive the senses in a crossed manner. With her ability to visualize sounds, she is in search of a form of absolute flexibility that translates movement and music. Nathalie Delhaye discovers these forms, whose volumes tend towards abstraction and minimalism, in nature and more particularly in the ripples of water, which she captures by photographing them. Conceiving such a model on the basis of a block of stone is a technical tour de force worthy of note. Nathalie Delhaye’s colossal efforts in cutting, carving and polishing have enabled her to achieve these extremely fluid effects by hand, with a finesse of material and color that would seem impossible to achieve. In this way, the artist poetically expresses perceptions that take her to the very limits of matter.

Nathalie Delhaye has been sculpting since childhood. By the age of eleven, she had already acquired a practical knowledge of the material through caving and the precision mechanics she practiced with her father. From the age of fourteen, she went off to sculpt academic nudes twice a week at the Ecole d’arts appliqués in La Chaux-de-Fonds and at the Académie de Meuron in Neuchâtel. In 2000, Nathalie Delhaye left her nursing profession to devote herself fully to sculpture. Since then, she has participated in numerous exhibitions and her portfolio is enriched by a multitude of private, public and institutional commissions.

GAËL EPINEY

Currently living in Lausanne, Gaël Epiney (1986, Fully, VS) is an artist working in drawing, painting, Indian ink and sculpture. Gaël Epiney has traveled extensively throughout Asia, spending over two years in Tibet, where he studied the language and traditional painting. These travels not only changed his way of seeing the world around him, but also his own artistic approach. Gaël Epiney’s work explores the organic and metaphysical beauty of our environment. Indeed, he focuses on a multitude of elements linked to the experience of nature, such as its colors, textures and patterns, from which he extracts a visual essence that is practically spiritual. The artist religiously analyzes and almost obsessively examines all these features of nature, in order to express an unexplored, semi-abstract beauty that offers a new reading of our world. In this way, Gaël Epiney’s works humbly question our relationship with nature and its sacred dimension.

In 2008, Gaël Epiney graduated in traditional Tibetan thangkas painting at the Danbarabten Academy, Lhasa, Tibet. The same year, he studied Tibetan at the University of Tibet in Lhasa. In 2010, he continued his studies at l’écal, Lausanne, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts. Throughout his career, Gaël Epiney has taken part in numerous exhibitions in Switzerland, Los Angeles, Berlin, Kathmandu and Wuhai. His work is included in the public collections of the towns of Sion and Martigny.

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PETER STOFFEL

Peter Stoffel (1972, Herisau, AR) is an artist working and living in Geneva. His artistic practice is characterized by a variety of techniques and styles, creating dense images with layers of color that combine to form complex patterns. From an early age, Peter Stoffel developed a special bond with the Swiss mountains, particularly in Valais, where the artist has his roots, but above all in Appenzell, where the Alpstein mountain range has guided him throughout his artistic career. Working in the manner of an imaginary geologist, Peter Stoffel is interested in the structure and composition of the earth and the processes that shape it, where, as in painting, the essential is not visible on the surface. In a quasi-scientific way, the artist creates a map where fractals, geological strata, folds and mineral erosions are connected. This four-dimensional approach to abstraction transcends the classical representation of landscape, as each work is a constantly expanding network of energy.

Peter Stoffel studied at the École supérieure d’art visuel (ESAV), Geneva, which became the HEAD in 2008. He also studied at the Hamburg School of Fine Arts. The artist has won numerous awards, including five prizes for the promotion of Swiss culture. He is the subject of several publications and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions. Peter Stoffel has already had solo exhibitions at several institutions, including a retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Solothurn in 2015.