- Bernhard Hoesli - collage and architecture

“So a collage is not only meant as an object,
something made, a result, but what is perhaps far more
interesting: a process. Moreover, that behind this way
of doing something which as a result then leads to a
collage, the collage could be meant as an attitude of
mind…”
Hoesli’s works are literally and figuratively layered
to reveal their material composition and methods of
fabrication. Surface materials are often exposed as
defined shapes trapped between other layers in the
composition. This creates a reversal of figure and
ground. Interrupted complex grids and patterns,
thick built up materials, and textures set against sharp
disharmonies and discontinuities eventually become
synonyms to what he found challenging and generative
in architectural design.
Bernhard Hoesli Monograph: Kevin Pappa