14.11.2022  •  Art NEWS

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GoSee Book Tip : SILVIA BUOL – OF SHORT AND LONG PATHS. Impulses of Cheerful Happiness with topographical abstractions (Scheidegger & Spiess)

Using atlases and historical maps as a starting point, artist Silvia Buol together with art historian and author Simon Baur embarked on an artistic-historical journey in their minds. The result has now been published in a book at publishing house Scheidegger & Spiess.

In addition to topographical abstractions, Silvia Buol created color illustrations and watercolor paintings, at times painting directly over the map material in the process. Coming from a background of dance performance, she recognizes physicality and movement in the contour lines, landscapes and urban elements. The maps are at once templates, models and design patterns or construction plans, upon which journeys are undertaken with pens and brushes which become an unknown physical and emotional experience.

Conversely, Simon Baur approaches the topic scientifically, in turn creating a type of map of similar approaches throughout art and dance history.

The carefully designed book, which resembles an atlas, is divided into thematic chapters. Titled with words such as Corporeal Light, Traces and Trails, Walking, Body Shell, Plastic Movement, Field Research or Moved / The Moving, they refer to the plastic and intuitive structural aspects of Silvia Buol’s works.

Silvia Buol has been active at the intersection of dance, performances and productions since the 1980s. And since 2006, she has also been making references in her illustrations, paintings and photography to her body and the ways in which it can move. She lives and works in Basel.

Simon Baur is an art historian and publisher. Most recently, his book ‘Meret Oppenheim Secrets – A Journey through Life and Work’ was published by Scheidegger & Spiess. Together with Silvia Buol, he published the city guide ‘The Charm of the Trivial’ (for Basel) and ‘Casual Essentials in Venice’, which appeared at Park Books.

SILVIA BUOL – OF SHORT AND LONG PATHS. Impulses of Cheerful Happiness
with texts by Simon Baur
1st edition, 2022, 236 pages, 370 color and 6 B/W ills.
24 x 33 cm, ISBN 978-3-03942-099-5.

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Silvia Buol – 'Von kurzen und langen Wegen' pubkished by SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS

Silvia Buol – 'Von kurzen und langen Wegen' pubkished by SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS

 
Silvia Buol – 'Von kurzen und langen Wegen' pubkished by SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS

Silvia Buol – 'Von kurzen und langen Wegen' pubkished by SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS

 
Silvia Buol – 'Von kurzen und langen Wegen' pubkished by SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS

Silvia Buol – 'Von kurzen und langen Wegen' pubkished by SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS

 
Silvia Buol – 'Von kurzen und langen Wegen' pubkished by SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS

Silvia Buol – 'Von kurzen und langen Wegen' pubkished by SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS

 
Silvia Buol – 'Von kurzen und langen Wegen' pubkished by SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS

Silvia Buol – 'Von kurzen und langen Wegen' pubkished by SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS

 
Silvia Buol – 'Von kurzen und langen Wegen' pubkished by SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS

Silvia Buol – 'Von kurzen und langen Wegen' pubkished by SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS

 
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