A hut installation built from waste wood divides the art space. Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth carved motifs and texts into the used wooden panels and found boards on site. The drawings are based on photographs from the artist’s childhood and youth, depicting the faces of family members and friends. The drawings are combined with text fragments from pop songs that the artist associates with formative memories and feelings from his youth. The warm wood, imbued with memories of happy moments, creates an atmosphere of love, surrounded by sadness about the fleeting and transitory, defiantly engraved into the surfaces of the wooden panels, as a certainty in a life full of lost traces and blurred memories.
Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth is the person behind the new art space Les Complices in Zurich’s Kreis 4 district and is presenting his first solo exhibition as an artist at the message salon.