Artists information
In the «substrat.01 – oberfläche.struktur» exhibition, Nicole Hassler uses as her material an exchange of letters that is also the story of a relationship. More than a hundred e-mails stand witness to this love story, inspiring her to create a work that takes her theme of cosmetic colours a step further. Hassler has worked with oils and make-up colours on large-format canvas to further develop her «Fonds de teint» project, in which she applied the make-up – an added, corrective base for the skin – both to the canvas and to her own face, then photographed canvas and face and juxtaposed these against one another. For Hassler, in this process the face represented simply a stage, with the extension of cosmetic colours onto the human body already established and made reality in the work displayed here. In the «substrat.01 – oberfläche.struktur» exhibition, Hassler has displayed a skin-coloured triptych. A slide projection accompanying the work, with specific words and sentences picked out of the emails, has brought the medium of language directly into the exhibition.
«substrat.01 – oberfläche.struktur»
Nicole Hassler is a painter and lives and works in Geneva.
substrat.01 – oberfläche.struktur
In 2001, the substrat exhibition series in Berlin put on display for the first time a number of current viewpoints in contemporary art. oberfläche.struktur brought together and juxtaposed five separate artistic approaches - Florian Bach's installation work, Franziska Furter's drawings, Nicole Hassler's painting, Valentin Hitz's film/installation work, and Jean-Thomas Vannotti's painting. All the artists are Swiss and spent time in Berlin as scholarship holders on a 3 to 12-month studio residency. In the «substrat.01 - oberfläche.struktur» exhibition, they have displayed new works created during this period.
The exhibition was supported by the Swiss Embassy in Berlin, the Fonds Cantonal de Décoration et d'Art Visuel Genève, the Département de l'Instruction Publique et des Affaires Culturelles Neuchâtel, the Zug Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr, and the Verband Schweizer Weinexporteure SWEA.
With «e-Male for her», Nicole Hassler recorded the story of a relationship that was played out primarily within a virtual space, inspiring her to create a work that further develops her theme of cosmetic colours. Hassler works with oils and make-up colours on large canvas. «e-Male for her» is a continuation of her work «Fonds de teint», in which she put the make-up on the canvas and also applied it to her own face, and then photographed canvas and face and juxtaposed these against one another. To accompany the work, visitors to the exhibition space were shown a slide projection with specific words picked out, and some of the emails were available to read.
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| Dia-Projektion «e-Male for her»
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