Marguerite Hersberger | Floating Structures
About the exhibition
The solo exhibition “Floating Structures” by renowned Zurich artist Marguerite Hersberger (81) comprises 25 works that exemplify her work and impressively illustrate the dialog between surface, space and light in concrete-constructivist art. As an outstanding representative of the Zurich Concrete movement, Hersberger, whose most recent retrospective was shown at Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich in 2024, combines geometric construction, light, shadow and spatial transparency in her work to create a unique artistic language.
Light, geometry, translucency and transparency - the essence of concrete-constructive art
In her work, Marguerite Hersberger pursues a consistent reduction to basic geometric forms and an experimental exploration of materiality and space. Her compositions play with the layering, interpenetration and superimposition of translucent elements, creating a fascinating interaction between light and shadow. Her works are in the tradition of Concrete Art - an art form that concentrates exclusively on pictorial means such as color, line, surface and space and does not allow any naturalistic or symbolic references.
With her specific formal language, Hersberger combines principles of structural concretion with a pronounced interest in spatial perception. Her works oscillate between two- and three-dimensional forms and create a special kind of suspension - a state between materiality and immateriality, fullness and emptiness, translucency and opacity.
The exhibition “Floating Structures” provides an insight into her latest work cycles and at the same time presents central positions of her previous work. Visitors can look forward to an immersive spatial experience in which visual and haptic perception complement each other.
Information
Opening, 01 March 2025, 6 pm.
Press
Marguerite Hersberger, Faszinierende Farblichträume, WB 28.02.25
