“Building on Paper”, ground-up building (slate, mortar and aluminum) on paper, 100 x 70 cm each, 2024/2025.“Building on Paper”, ground-up building on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2024/2025.
“Building on Paper”, ground-up building on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2024/2025.
“Building on Paper”, ground-up building on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2024/2025.
“Building on Paper”, ground-up building on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2024/2025.
“Building on Paper”, ground-up building on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2024/2025.
“Building on Paper”, ground-up building on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2024/2025.
“Building on Paper”, ground-up building on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2024/2025.
“Building on Paper”, ground-up building on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2024/2025.
“Building on Paper”, ground-up building on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2024/2025.
“Building on Paper”, ground-up building on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2024/2025.
“Building on Paper”, ground-up building on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2024/2025.
“Building on Paper”, demolition of a residential building from the 19th century in Untervaz, Grisons.“Building on Paper”, debris of torn-down building.
“Building on Paper”, process of grinding-up the building.
BUILDING ON PAPER
Ground-up building material (slate, mortar, and aluminum) on paper, serigraphy, 50 unique works, 100 × 70 cm each, 2024/2025.
The series “Building on Paper” traces the transformation of the mineral environment of the Rhine Valley in Grisons, Switzerland. In the nineteenth century, slate from the Calanda mountain was widely used as a building material in the region. When one such building was demolished, I had the resulting rubble crushed in a series of quarries and gravel works, gradually grinding it into increasingly fine particles that could be transferred onto paper as pigment. The process developed for the series combines screen printing with painterly gestures. Once part of a mountain, then transformed into building material and later demolition rubble, the material now reappears as dense mineral textures on paper.