Fehr Ursula
1940, Schweiz
Bildhauerin, diverse Lehraufträge
«...Dem Erdverbundenen und Verwurzelten steht das Sich-Lösen und Sich-Verwandeln entgegen. Die Wirklichkeit wird im Traum überwunden und der Zauber der Welt durch die Kraft der Sinne neu erfahren...»
In ”Green Women“ (”Grüne Weiber“), the „Wave Riders“ (”Wellenreiterinnen“), the ”Dream Pillow“ („Traumkissen“) and the works portraying Icarus-like beings (Ikariden), Ursula Fehr has been creating large groups of works since 1985 that portray the present day human condition in haunting, urgent images. Her work reflects a continuing development. Since the mid-sixties, Ursula Fehr‘s body of work has expanded broadly and fanned out into various groups of works. The artistic intuition of a metamorphosis between opposing poles winds through the different creative phases like Ariadne‘s thread. In the mid-seventies, the group of works ”Tearing Heads“ (”Tränende Häupter“) first showed elements of composition that still define how she creates forms today – between fantastical human figures and plant-like shapes. In the series ”Limitations“ (”Einschränkungen“) (1975–1988), the act of liberation of these vital hybrid creatures is the focus of the composition.
After the power of their drive springs the chains and cages that confined them, the group of works „Vine Root Beings“ („Rebwürzler“) begin their life on their ”own piece of soil“. As if on a magnetic field, the roots of these hybrid beings creep over the base plates – held securely, but not forced into narrow cracks. In ”Green Women“ (”Grüne Weiber“), the ”Wave Riders“ (”Wellenreiterinnen“), the ”Dream Pillow“ (”Traumkissen“) and the works portraying Icarus-like beings (”Ikariden“) Ursula Fehr has been creating large groups of works since the eighties, in which the human – perhaps however the specifically female – condition is portrayed under contemporary living conditions in haunting, urgent images.
Markus Landert, Curator Art Museum Kt. Thurgau, Switzerland
