DONALD BAECHLER

CORNER SPACE OCTOBER 2024
OPEN BY APPOINTMENT

Donald Baechler’s (1956–2022) world is full of contrasts and contradictions. His works excude a directness and an almost childlike naïvety, at the same time as the well built-up backgrounds of collages and multiple layers speak of a conscious and methodical process of working. In paintings and collages, he incorporated scribbles and found objects. Simple and everyday subjects such as flowers, trees, balls and boys were painted with quick and direct brushstrokes and received icon status as they were again and again repeated and modified from work to work. With humor and also a certain amount of melancholy, Baechler implemented in his work the dream of the child’s curiosity and undestroyed capacity of creation and outlook on life.

Donald Baechler was exhibited for the first time in 1981 when Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York showed his works together with those of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His oeuvre spanned over paintings, collages, prints and sculptures.

Donald Baechler’s work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Philadelphia Museum; Centre George Pompidou and Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, among other institutions worldwide.

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