Marius Brühlmeier | Ruth Maria Obrist | Ursula Rutishauser

Exhibition:
February 2 to March 9, 2024

Opening:
Thursday, February 1, 2024, 18.30h
Introduction by Sabine Arlitt, art historian

Artist Talk:
Saturday, February 24, 2024, 15h

Finissage:
Saturday, March 9, 2024, 13-17h

Opening hours:
Wednesday to Friday 17-19h
Saturday 13-17h
or by appointment


Art in the Merker-Areal in Baden (AG)
Galerie 94 starts the new exhibition program 2024 with 3 local artists from the Merker-Areal, where Galerie 94 is also located. In 2024, the Merker-Areal will be home to a concentrated load of art. As the municipal Kunstraum Baden is now also a direct neighbor of Galerie 94, the area can now be described as the art center of Baden.

Marius Brühlmeier
Marius Brühlmeier's (*1954) paintings are created in a three-stage process. First, he begins with a non-representational drawing. Then a watercolor takes the idea further and gives the drawing color and depth. Maris Brühlmeier creates the picture with an oil or acrylic painting.
His works are all non-representational. The non-representational nature allows him to make more precise statements.
Marius Brühlmeier works in series, the format and technique remain the same within a series.

Ruth Maria Obrist
Ruth Maria Obrist does not assert, but creates. Starting from geometric shapes and figures, she creates works of art that can be read on many levels.
Ruth Maria Obrist's work is rooted in the tradition of minimal art and constructive and concrete art. It is not the individual gesture that is decisive, but a "vocabulary" based on strict conceptual derivations.
Geometry is the common thread. Ruth Maria Obrist plays with the optical differences between arithmetically identical surfaces, handles negative and positive forms, combines geometric physicality and two-dimensional drawings with playful virtuosity. Not as she pleases, but according to fixed rules. Mathematical concepts give her stability in a confusing world, she says.
(Text: Claudia Spinelli, aus dem Buch «the poetry of logic»)

Ursula Rutishauser
Ursula Rutishauser (1955) attended the Wettingen Teachers' College and then the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts, where she obtained a higher teaching qualification in visual design and art.
Parallel to her teaching activities, she consistently developed her artistic work in the studio, continuously participated in exhibitions and spent several months in a studio at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona in 2006. Since 2019, she has worked exclusively as an artist.
Her works, cut directly into paper with a Japanese knife and scissors, are often characterized by current world events, as in the project "en passant", the "open letters" or the confrontation with war, such as in the work "against forgetting" (Work in Progress). The themes of vulnerability and exclusion are echoed time and again, in delicate paper weavings as well as in large-scale, expansive works cut into wide rolls of paper.
Paper cuttings also form the basis of realizations in metal. These larger works in chromium-nickel steel and brass are also shown outdoors, where they enter into a dialog with nature and/or architecture. The artist's interest in music is reflected in her collaboration with musicians. Since 2014, she has sporadically created performances that bring together site-specific art, music and space and are documented on film. Ursula Rutishauser lives and works in Untersiggenthal and Baden.
(Text: Anna Karger, Zurich)