Work Series 2009 – 2011

For some time, Ana Büchel has been defining a sober ornament as a fundamental element of her frame-filling Painting: A stylized leaf, which in her light asymmetric shape resembles a Rocaille of the late Barock. Symbolizing the organic and the mechanical as it is inherent in nature.

As she considers the spaces in a kind of horror vacui with her small leaves in a series of images, she pays homage to the thesis, in which nature shrinks into empty spaces and she constantly tries to fill them. In her most recent paintings she breaks these empty surfaces, white streaks or black colored surfaces that give the work depth, and the creation of new spaces.

Thematically, the images are fundamental philosophical questions about the representability of a higher being and its manifestation in the cycles of nature. Abundance and emptiness, life and passing, are the main themes that Ana Büchel seeks to fathom in connection with human existence.

Her life experience has led to the knowledge that abandonment and renunciation bring also gratification along. This general finding, transform a formal aesthetic, in which she solves the objects strongly and convicts into more abstract visual spaces.

Mag. Gerda Haas,                                                  Feldkirch, 6. 5. 2010