The renowned Swiss artist Andrea Muheim has been painting people for over 25 years and has made a name for herself as a nuanced and accomplished portrait painter, among other things. In her latest works, the people in her paintings show themselves in a process of movement. They are full of dynamism and evoke that feeling of freedom. Years of engagement with dance and rhythm have led Muheim into a new, painterly, and multifaceted dimension.
The looser brushwork is the painterly response to the search for freedom and also lends Andrea Muheim's paintings a new dynamism, which finds its counterpart both in the captured movement of the people in the paintings and in her still lifes, with which she is also intensively engaged.
The working pace has become faster. Contours are blurred and dissolve, people become shadow figures in backlight, lose their faces, recede into the distance, and are only recognizable as such from close up.
