Fant Wenger
In Wenger's paintings, nature and technology sometimes collide violently and with serious consequences. In “The Message,” a railroad car with a parabolic antenna pierces the pictorial space. It is overgrown with trees with sprawling branches that penetrate the pictorial space, powerful and bare.
The color mood appears apocalyptic, with the artist contrasting rust and orange tones with a poisonous green and turquoise. Wenger's paintings are characterized by a complex structure on different levels. Wenger's paintings are characterized by complexity on various levels. He makes use of unusual changes of perspective, freely oscillating between exterior and interior spaces as if there were no boundaries, composing his landscapes so that they end in the abyss.
Scales of size have little relation to one another; they serve the respective object. However, none of these breaks are intrusive; they are natural and obviously there, irritating in places, but not disturbing. As viewers, we have long since become too entangled in these worlds. Realities and times merge, magical elements appear, and Wenger creates a kind of “third reality” in his works, in which he depicts a material world but suggests hidden meanings.
These are less dreams than interpretations of a complex world, fragmentary narratives of reality. And so the theme of frequency in the sense of repetition is applied to archetypal experiences: memory, loss, belief in the future, destruction, hope. Much remains in limbo, but in an inspiring limbo that resonates, opens up spaces for thought, but does not provide final answers.
Fant Wenger *1971 lives and work in Winterthur, Switzerland
AUSSTELLUNGEN | EXHIBITIONS
2024 Group Show, Titlisstrasse Zurich, CH
2024 Group Show, Must Museum, Lecce, IT
2023 Solo Show „Frequency“, Palazzo Pisani Revedin,Itsliquid Group, Venice, IT
2021 Solo Show, Medina Roma, Rome, IT
2021 Solo Show, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, IT
2021 Solo Show „Frequency“, Medina Roma Gallery, Rom, IT
2021 Solo Show, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, IT
2020 Group Show, „In Transition“, 6 1/2 im Exil, Hermann Bühler Areal Winterthur Sennhof, CH
2019 It's Liquid Group, London, UK
2019 Europ Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Swiss Art Expo, ARTBOX Project 1.0, Zurich, CH
2019 International Contemporary Art Biennale Basel, CH
2019 International Fine Art Biennale Cannes, FR
2018 Soloshow „Frequenz“, oxyd–Kunsträume, Winterthur, CH
2017 „Brückenschlag“ Römer Kastell, Pfyn, CH
2016 „vermessen“ Galerie knoerle&baettig, Winterthur, CH
2013 „M13 Kunst ums Schloss“ Schloss Mörsburg, Winterthur, CH
2012 „Die Fabrik ruft!“ Brunnen, CH 2012 „Denkmuster“ oxyd–Kunsträume, Winterthur, CH 2009 „Relation“ Kunsthalle Frauenfeld, CH
2009 „Woran wir nicht zu denken wagten“ oxyd–Kunsträume, Winterthur, CH
2008 „Schichtwechsel“, Kunstkasten, Winterthur, CH
2005 „Politische Bombe“, Stadtgalerie Chomutov, CZ
2005 „Bildhauersymposium“, Bolebor, CZ 2003 „Der Weg zum Werk“, Malwerkstatt, Winterthur, CH
2002 Soloshow „Rabatt“, Supermarket, Zurich, CH
2001 “Arte 01“ Kyburg, Winterthur, CH
1994 „Stiftung Mirame“, Zurich, CH
1991 Soloshow, Hallauerhuus, Effretikon, CH
Its all about frequency 2020 acrylic on canvas 180 x 240 cm
Radio Storm acrylic on canvas 190 x 240 cm
Propaganda 2019 acrylic on canvas 190 x 240 cm
The message acrylic on canvas 180 x 240 cm,
Hotel paradise acrylics on canvas 2018 130 x 170 cm
satelite receiver 2019 oil on canvas 190 x 240 cm
Radio Fire 2016 acrylic on canvas 180 x 240 cm
Radio reception 2019 acrylic on canvas 170 x130 cm
Inspirationm 2016 acrylic on canvas 180 x 240 cm
Receiver 2016 acylic on canvas 170 x 130 cm
