Miriam Cahn is the painter who struck the spirits at Documenta, the high mass of contemporary art in Kassel, in the heart of Germany, where she exhibited several times, from 1982 to 2017, and eclipsed in a look at all his peers, suddenly terribly artificial.
His paintings of fugitives, naked and exhausted under a merciless sun, drowned in turquoise but devouring waves, starving on a bare earth where nothing grows, evoke cruelty and fate like the great massacres and exoduses of biblical stories.
This artist, born in Basel in 1949, whose paintings, soft in color and terrible in subject matter, is no stranger: she represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 1984. Fearsome and feared, she has become over the years years, by increasingly insistent word-of-mouth and an art market hungry for names,
the painter par excellence, this irreducible temperament who dares everything and does as she pleases, only obeys her instinct.
Her extensive exhibition “Miriam Cahn, Ma…
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