Relief bibgia 1540, 2017

Wall object made of papyrus, paraffin and beeswax on a wooden base.

Dimensions: 90 x 90 x 10 cm

Ernestina Abbühl, a native of the Engadine, reinterprets the raw material wax with her delicate, clearly structured art: "Wax, my means of artistic expression, is a natural material that allows many forms of processing - from hard to liquid. It can be left in its original nuances or changed by adding colour pigments." The artist finds inspiration for her works in nature, in the mountains, in the layers, reliefs and structures of rock or glaciers.

Paper and wax have played a central role in the history of mankind for thousands of years. Paper as the carrier of words and thoughts, wax as the medium that gave man the light to put these thoughts on paper. At the same time, however, wax functions as a preserving element and allows us to work in the third dimension. Worlds of geometric bodies open up.

The secretive, dense and at the same time sensitive concentration of Ernestina Abbühl's works should show us the way to the same stillness, concentration and sensitivity that are inherent in the works themselves.