Chantal Michel. «Honey, Milk And First Violets». A Confrontation with Albert Anker
Albert Anker’s name has long been on Chantal Michel’s list of artists on whom she wishes to focus her artistic work. Not only were his delightful portraits among the very first artworks that she saw as a child, but she also greatly admires the painterly ingenuity of his still lifes.
On the occasion of the exhibition Albert Anker: Beautiful World. On the Centenary of his Death in the Kunstmuseum Bern, Chantal Michel finally has the opportunity to conceive an extensive artistic response to the work of this exceptional Swiss painter and draftsman. Born in 1968 in Bern, Michel, a photo, performance, and video artist, will stage in a separate, own room the results of her personal confrontation with Anker’s world of imagery within the centenary exhibition. She faces the challenge of articulating an adequate contemporary response to the old master of Swiss art history who had largely committed himself to idealized notions.
The intervention in the Kunstmuseum Bern is the continuation of Chantal Michel's work on Albert Anker, presented from June onwards in Schloss Kiesen, her current living quarters, studio and exhibition space.
