Art Aviso

Exhibition by swiss artist Daniel Garbade Lachenal

Garbade makes a clear nod to his Swiss origin in this exhibition; using the traditional Scherenschnitte cut-out silhouettes as a reference. In this ways he continues the series he started two years ago, based on Spanish folkloric iconography to describe contexts of current life. In this exhibition, the artist combines both Swiss and Spanish folk iconography to describe the mosaic of his life, which is the result of these two cultures, achieving an impressive, subtle and complex image at the same time.

The muses undoubtedly reside in Garbade's work, as evidenced by his brilliant artistic career. Garbade's muses are none other than the human beings that surround him, with whom he crosses paths and interacts on a daily basis, each with their own story, and who collectively make up the mosaic of our society and of his life and work.

His technique always begins with fine line drawings, clean and direct; through its multiplication and evolution, to create a mosaic of complex and rich prints, which allow multiple views from different approaches. With his peculiar and unique way of focusing, blurring and assembling traces of life and history, Garbade's work blurs time and space, his life and our history.

For Garbade, memories are as precise as legends, and William Tell and himself are as Swiss as Spanish or Andalusian or Al-Andalus.