Bitte

The catalog features 56 high-quality reproductions of her prints along with corresponding poems, providing a concise and vivid insight into the work of Swiss artist Els Grieder. The figurative representations of this artist evoke the traditions of Byzantine icon painting, which aimed to create a visual expression of the divine. Els Grieder has updated this program, creating portrait figures of intense introspection—figures of supplication that embody human desires, questions, and fears, capable of expressing them. This is precisely what makes these otherwise strange faces, depicted in Grieder's linocuts and screen prints, immediately understandable as human expressions. A discovery.