Flower bouquets and nude scenes: Can one still paint that today? Yes — one can. If one approaches it like the Zurich artist Andrea Muheim. Reflective yet intimate, with an outside perspective yet full of heart. The painter spends a lot of time arranging the flowers. And she dances naked alone in front of the camera. And then reviews the images as a basis for the painting. Both the flower paintings and the nude scenes are thus preceded by a kind of performance. And the painting itself is then also a kind of performance: For the images should preserve the lightness, the wonder of the moment. And yet should develop permanence.
What will tomorrow bring? Can painting, so full of transience, ask that? Yes: if it lives.
