Claudio Tschopp
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Essays and Reviews > Precarious Footing



My paintings are pictorial landscapes in a wider sense, landscapes based on the delicate connections between objects.
As a painter I collect and select visual impressions and try to capture them on canvas:

My Precarious Footing paintings feed of two distinct resources:
One one side I draw my inspiration from maps and architectural drawings. On the other side I use sketches or pictures of nature or specific color combinations in nature that appealed because of a certain uniqueness in time or location.

In my studio I access this “archive” and re-assemble it on canvas. By overlapping these diverse elements I create a new environment
that in my eyes reflects the simultaneous and sometimes concurring existence of all things that make up our world.
I keep adding new layers on top of existing ones; sometimes layers are translucent, sometimes opaque,
and sometimes layers are scratched away, putting side by side old and new.

Objects and living creatures, their lives and existences are interrelated and I try to express this through a layered composition utilizing repetitive patterns and shades of the same color, creating a unique environment.

For me, this is the fascination of painting; its ability to make real those worlds otherwise not accessible.