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ARTISTS
BUCHER/KOPP

About BUCHER/KOPP

“All One’s Soul” is characterized by its smooth unpretentiousness. .
The young woman in the glass brick moves in a completely relaxed fashion, nothing disturbs her calmness. Set free of all patterns that matter in the “real” life of physical self-presentation. No luxury products in elegant shopping bags, no wellness and fitness programs and all those more or less costly trash piles for today’s physical culture? Nothing of that nature seems to be important here. The image is plain and simple. As if “Diogenes the Modest” had slipped into a female identity and finds himself in a glass brick.
Is it a symbolic praise of asceticism against the secular sink of corruption? A culture critique, on the level of an image, which is as old as civilization? That is not the perception here. The viewer is rather of the impression that the woman in the glass brick had allowed herself a glass of Dom Perignon (excellent vintage, of course) – that’s how relaxed and gentle her motions are, lavishly gentle. Her movements remind of luxury and not of consumption. Luxury which is simply there, an immaterial wealth, with no need to seize it. It comes and goes in an ever repetitive cycle. Engulfed in the figurative language of art between clear and unclear, sharp and blurred, a doubled image, elegant yet fragile and vulnerable, raising emotions of melancholia and comfort. A poetic performance in glass- esthetic and powerful.