Tarcisi Cadalbert

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Tarcisi Cadalbert , artist name Tarcisi (born December 16, 1943 in Sevgein ; † November 9, 2003 in Zurich ), was a Grisons painter and action artist, land art artist and stage designer .

life and work

The artist Tarcisi, whose real name was Tarcisi Cadalbert, was born in Sevgein (Surselva) in 1943 and lived mainly in Zurich from 1963, where, in addition to studying law and social education at the university, he increasingly dealt with painting on an autodidactic basis and finally with regular painting Exhibitions and actions in the Zurich art scene and beyond.

Artistic development

His first pictures were works from nature. Later the topics became more diverse and the image formats larger. Tarcisi tried - like other painters of his time, such as Martin Disler - to depict "the world out of joint" and thus to banish his fears. “Oppressive Proximity” was the name of the monumental picture project on a 170-meter-long picture roll that he was able to present in 2001 at the Olten Art Museum . In this obsessive, expressive style of painting, he is related to the so-called Neue Wilden of the 1980s, who were primarily concerned with setting themselves apart from the intellectual coolness of Minimal Art and pure Concept Art and achieving effect in representational, emotionally charged images with free painterly gestures .

In 1981 Tarcisi, together with Gian Andri Albertini and Brian C. Thurston , co-founded the painter group WIND , with which he took part in a number of exhibitions. In 1989 he published his large “ Greina Panorama” in 21 individual images measuring 120x160 cm, with which he campaigned against the reservoir project on the Greina plain. He did not stop at the pictures, however, but also expressed his displeasure in the form of action art , for example by inviting the media to burn a screen in front of the Ucliva eco-hotel in Waltensburg . In 1997, he created a portrait of his homeland in the Surselva cycle: in 21 large-format pictures, he presented the same excerpt from the world in 21 different moods and moods, a painterly rich yield of colors, shapes and movements. With the 14-part series of abstract Passion pictures , which also implement the colors of the homeland in a richly contrasting manner and combine them with the theme of suffering, Tarcisi achieved a highly acclaimed highlight in his painting in 2003 on the occasion of the summer open-air performances of the Passion in Vella.

Solo exhibitions and actions (selection)

  • 2013 "Tarcisi - seen in a new way", atelier teatro di Camedo ( Centovalli )
  • 2003 «Passiun». Vals and Zurich
  • 2001 (exhibition together with Nando Snozzi) 100-meter picture log / diary (1990–2001) in the picture. 10 rolls of 2 × 10 m as a total environment. Art Museum Olten .
  • 2000 «One place - four worlds». A perception project based on an idea by Tarcisi. With HR Gallati. Art forum, Stallikon.
  • 1999 «One place - four worlds». Project with HR Gallati. Gallarte, Mollis.
  • 1997 «Surselva in picture», 21 pictures - 1 moment, each approx. 200 × 300 cm, painted on sheets from the Surselva. TKN cultural center, Truns.
  • 1997 20 pictures behind glass. On behalf of the youth welfare office of the city of Zurich. Center Charlemagne, Zurich.
  • 1997 «Memory Rooms», Surselva in the picture. Comart, Zurich.
  • 1996 «Val Madris». Public campaign on the occasion of the handover of a letter of appeal from Graubünden celebrities to protect the flat moor in Val Madris . Chur.
  • 1996 «Changes - Metamorphoses», 2 painters, 1 picture, 3 × 30 m, painted in the Glarus mountains. Joint effort with HR Gallati. Gallarte, Mollis.
  • 1996 “One place, a thousand lives”, scenes from everyday life on Albisriederplatz in Zurich. Etchings. In collaboration with Hans Diener. Comart, Zurich.
  • 1995 «Schlacken», picture to cut out, 1.60 mx 50 m. Frankengasse Gallery, Zurich.
  • 1994 «Erdwundbrand», 130 m² picture to cut out.
  • 1993 endless picture 1.60 mx 50 m. Art Agency Klein, Zurich.
  • 1992 "Look - Shiver", 60 m² picture to cut out. U gallery, Zurich.
  • 1991 «Mourning Work». Anita Dosch Gallery, Zurich.
  • 1989 «Greina Panorama», 21 single images (120 × 160 cm) of a saved landscape. Proceeds for the benefit of the municipalities of Vrin and Sumvitg. Studio 10, Chur.
  • 1989 «Oppressive proximity - repressed distance». Atelier on Waidfussweg / Galerie Anita Dosch, Zurich.
  • 1987 «Painting a picture every day». 366 pictures in 366 days. Ursula Siegenthaler Gallery, Zurich.
  • 1987 "Foundling, the stonemason doesn't love you, you blunt the chisel". Pictures based on poems by Rainer Brambach . Gallarte, Mollis.
  • 1986 «Les fleurs du mal». Images based on poems by Charles Baudelaire . Atelier on Waidfussweg, Zurich.
  • 1986 Wrapping of the "Crap la crusch" in black mourning ribbon. Watershed on the Greina plain, 2268 m. ü. M.
  • 1986 Greina paravent burning. Manifestation against the power plant and reservoir in the Greina level, Hotel Ucliva, Waltensburg.
  • 1984 "Olmas mortas II". Anita Dosch Gallery, Zurich.
  • 1980 «Landscape sensitivities». Galeria d'art Toja Isenring-Maissen, Laax.
  • 1980 «Olmas mortas» (broken souls), based on Charles Baudelaire's «Les fleurs du mal». Anita Dosch Gallery, Zurich.

Association Friends of Tarcisi

In June 2011, the Friends of Tarcisi Association, based in Camedo, was founded with the aim of making Tarcisi's pictures accessible to an interested public.

literature

  • Rudolf Schilling: Tarcisi, oppressive proximity. Self-published in 1998.
  • Urs Strässle: Longing for closeness. In: Tages-Anzeiger. November 12, 2003, p. 15.
  • Steffan Biffiger : Tarcisi - seen again. Vernissage speech at the exhibition in Camedo , May 18, 2013 (published on Tarcisi website).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Friends of Tarcisi
personal data
SURNAME Cadalbert, Tarcisi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tarcisi (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Sevgein
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2003
Place of death Zurich