Andreas Rüthi

Andreas Rüthi's still life paintings in oil form a developing series. Usually containing a postcard of a work of art, their repetitive form builds into a kind of diary. Changing groupings of objects, mementoes and images - and their cast shadows - make a sequence which is always open to the possibility of change, through the surprises inherent in each individual painterly encounter. The paintings are made from observation, usually by fluorescent light, against a white background. Their references and associations show a wry humour,a dialogue with art history as with the nature of reproduction and repetition; but the logic of the procedure suggests a kinship with forms of abstraction, and with conceptual art in its classic concern with time.