Schütz Marina
With „Man, among influences and change“ Swiss artist Liz Gehrer exposes her new works at the Hermann Geiger Foundation in Cecina. Once again, Man is protagonist. The artist researches the relationship of Man with his environment, scanning the web of interpersonal relationships with x-rays: how are we moulded by our environment? Can freedom and social closeness coexist? more
Schiavetti Alessandro
Man, among influences and changes
It is a man that undergoes inquiry, placed under an in-depth and complete analysis; a man that cannot escape external influences that irreparably condition and mould him, His very nature brings him to be subject to news, that infiltrates and channels itself in his very person, often making it a cortex that sees and that feels but that doesn’t act in front of the crudest reality that surrounds him. more
Bruckmeier Elfriede
Paper and carton are part of the so-called “poor” materials, brought to the spotlight as autonomous means of art, only very late – among plastic works they are the most light, fragile and delicate materials, only used in the about the last 25 years. more
Dathe Stephanie
Liz Gehrer – an introduction to her work
«Although or especially because of its stiffness (attained during processing), cardboard allows to show up processes and structures on the finished object long afterwards. Furrows, tears and dents remain recognisable and even just physically express what as a subject matters most to me: the vulnerability of human beings and their relationships. more
Pfister Paul O. (†)
Because in all their rigidity they are alive…..
You can’t go past Liz Gehrers sculptures without noticing them.
I nearly would have succeeded when I first came across them in the studio of the Gehrer house in Tuscany, Italy. I was once again on a visit and had expressed the wish to be allowed to see some pieces of Liz Gehrers work. I was curious. more
Different authors
About the unusual of the usual
The artistic work of Liz Gehrer has a very own essential form of expression, which leads across the most diverse areas of sculpture, objects and paintings using related materials such as cardboard iron, parchment paper as the core of her interest. more