As part of the new exhibition series “Die message salon Diele”, Davix is showing an installation of paintings from his studio in Lucerne in the window of the art space “Die Diele”. Madame l’Ambassadeur Esther Eppstein has invited the artist to take up a short residency in 25hours Hotel Langstrasse, to prepare the installation. Esther Eppstein has a long-standing friendship and collaboration with Davix; the artist and musician has exhibited repeatedly at the message salon since 1995, most recently at Perla-Mode in 2012.
Davix’s painting quotes abstract-expressive painting of the sixties, the aesthetics of pop art, influenced by techno, video clips, computer games and graffiti. Abstract, strictly geometric areas of colour compete with expressive brushwork, patterns, repetition and traces scratch the perfect surface. Painting is the reference, nature in its most wondrous existence, a universal language of form and colour. The miracle of life is complex and yet a repetition in endless variation. Is painting a kind of microscope? An attempt to approach life in its entirety – inwardness and materiality – and to depict, come close to, somehow understand nature and its irrevocable laws, which include man and his psyche?
From the rhythm of the brush to the rhythm of the music. Davix has been a drummer for 30 years, was on the road with the legendary Lucerne post-punk band Steven’s Nude Club in the 1980s and is still involved in various band projects today. On Saturday 27 April, Davix will be playing a concert with his current Lucerne jazz-punk band “Loren” in the charming allotment garden “2-2=0” behind the seven tracks at Schöneggplatz in Zurich Aussersihl. His message salon embassy zine “Tracks” will be published on this occasion.
message salon embassy thanks Livio Baumgartner (Die Diele), Moni Schori and Patrick Hollenstein (2-2=0) and 25hours Hotel Langstrasse Zurich