Carl
Bucher
Monumental Form
| Carl Bucher spent the first twenty years
of his work experimenting. He was successful with his experiments,
his works were purchased by collectors and collections, and he could
have been satisfied with each individual experiment. But he could not stop at any of the levels of achievementhe had reached, instead he had to explore new avenues in the full consciousness of not having reached and found what is truly his. Within a decade one can trace a route towards concrete condensation, from his early atmospheric pictures via those graffiti reminiscent of prehistoric cave drawings, the spiral pictures and the carved waggons right up to the hovering landings. He felt the urge to create larger, more compact forms, from the oil painting to the flat, and later on, to the low relief that is set off against a back-drop in staggered layers, in order to arrive eventually at a full-bodied structure which presents itself in space. |
