Ceysson & Bénétière

 The works of Markus Bacher are neither figurative nor resolutely abstract. They offer us a kind of celebration of this in-between that is of great beauty. He draws us along a path running alongside the mainstream of contemporary abstraction, but offers us the felicitous detours and byways of tradition that run against the trend. We rub shoulders with Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Gerhard Richter, together with Johann Evangelist Holzer and Franz Anton Maulbertsch. In the last works of Lovis Corinth, of a pictorial matter that is shaped by stretching the coloured texture, patterns, shapes and forms spring from the surfaces to avoid being sucked down as though stripped. In the paintings of Markus Bacher , they seem to become entangled, dislocated and torn, dispersing and dissolving into a colourful molten matrix. The « tone » of this painting owes more to Nietzsche and Mahler than to Schoenberg.

Bernard Ceysson  

Ceysson & Bénétière