Marconi, 2003
Indian ink, 102 x 73 cm

Aktion KIR, 1999
1000 m, Ø 11 mm

Tanz, 2006
Indian ink, 100 x 70 cm

Untitled, 2009
Metal, wood, gloss paint, 163 x 31 cm

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Rom III, 2000
Indian ink, 84 x 59 cm

Labyrinth, 2006
Indian ink, 100 x 70 cm

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Schichtung, 2009
48 discs, Metal ∅ 124 cm

Rauschen II, 2004
Indian ink, 73 x 50 cm

Untitled, 2005
Indian ink, 102 x 73 cm

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Mantel, 2004
48 discs, iron, ∅ 1.24m, 14.97 x 13.83  cm
installation view at Centre PasquArt Biel

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Rätsel, 2007
collage, 28 x 22 cm

 

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Rondellen, 2009
Aquatinta , 29.7 x 19.7 cm

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Untitled, 2002
monotype on paper, 102 x 73 cm

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Aktion St. Petersinsel, 1990
wood, textile, 582 x 108 cm

all images courtesy of the artist

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PETER GYSI is a Swiss artist who conceives works of art that are fundamentally geometric and architectonic. From objects and sculptures to installations and drawings, his work explores the notion of concept and experiment, plan and chance, humour and seriousness.

Using precise, measured formats such as grids and modules, his 2D and 3D pieces relied on the circle as the basic unit for his explorations of space, time, form, volume, repetition, sequence, and variation.

I am driven by all kinds of things and sensations: the fascination of the physical act, the aesthethic effect of a pattern, ornaments – the leaves of trees, printed fabrics, paper, touch, India ink, texture, quirks of perception, the personal imprint, vibration and power through repetition, melodies; the complexities of structures that arise from the multiplication of simple, mostly like elements; exponential change through addition and/or substraction; the fugue, the structure, the in-between; fields or tension between plan, chance and idea; the experiment, the unpredictable, the how and the why, the directness of drawing, the many impulses from the history of drawing… – PETER GYSI in conversation with ULRICH LOOCK, August 2010