{"product_id":"17755-niklaus-manuel-guedel","title":"Niklaus Manuel Güdel","description":"\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003eIn his singular paintings, Niklaus Manuel Güdel (*1988 in \u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"st1\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/\u003e\u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:City w:st=\"on\"\u003eDelémont\u003c\/st1:City\u003e, \u003cst1:country-region w:st=\"on\"\u003eSwitzerland\u003c\/st1:country-region\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e) assigns a void to the actual pictorial subject. The people or animals he portrays are merely roughly outlined. Yet we recognize the shapes—our brain has stored countless illustrations and figures and is trained to immediately fill in any visual absence, any empty area in our field of vision. Yet a “blind spot” of this kind causes us to pause and in the end also stands for the unnamable, the unrepresentable essence of every living being.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003eGüdel’s painterly gesture and his artistic strategy have earned him international recognition. His most recent works, the \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eComme un blanc\u003c\/I\u003e series, are particularly interesting: attesting to the terrors of war by not depicting them and not showing the traces they leave behind is a moving symbol for the impossibility of expressing the experienced horror. \u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874864034056,"sku":"9783775740128","price":9.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775740128_08a2042b-88d6-41b4-a6c8-0db2026d8318.jpg?v=1744122103","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/17755-niklaus-manuel-guedel","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}