Eight Paragraphs for Nina Lola Bachhuber
By Gregory Volk
The first thing one notes about Nina Lola Bachhuber’s sculptures and drawings is how rigorously conceived and rendered they are, how precise, and how acutely focused on formal matters of materials, shape, volume, surface, texture, and color. While Bachhuber juxtaposes multiple and at times jarring materials, like fabric, wigs, cast bones, mirrors, furniture, metal, and styrofoam, she does so with an aura of ultra-control, suggesting that she is not only an heir to Minimalist austerities, but also a young artist uncommonly interested in sculptural expertise altogether. / Read more
International Paper Drawings by Emerging Artists Catalogue
UCLA HAMMER Museum 2003
By Claudine Isé
Moving fluidly between the realms of figuration and abstraction, often within a single drawing, Nina Lola Bachhuber attempts to describe the shifting inner landscape of human consciousness. Bachhuber has described the human body as “ a kind of lodging”, which under certain conditions may assume the imprisoning qualities of a cage. Her ink and pencil drawings explore these and other metaphors of the corpus (often an explicitly female one) through recurring imagery that includes helmets, receptacles, architectural fragments, and blood-red biomorphic forms. / Read more
Greater New York 2005 Catalogue
P.S.1/MoMA Queens 2005
By Sarah Lewis
Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nina Lola Bachhuber’s figurative and abstract drawings convey narratives of an unbridled psyche in a nocturnal state. Bachhuber frequently draws monochromatic images in red or blue ink or pencil, each with a loose quality lacking in self-consciousness, as if done in a reverie. Her work often consists of unsettling biomorphic images-overdeveloped “lodgings” and “receptacles”-as she calls them, giving the work a surrealist feel. / Read more
Mercosul Biennial Catalogue
Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brasil
By Victoria Noorthoorn
Chief Curator of the 7 Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brasil
Al registro no ya de lo cómico sino de lo fantástico pertenece el orden bajo el cual se transforman las series de figuras monocromas –ya sea en tinta azul o roja- que delinea la pluma de Nina Lola Bachhuber, de quien presentamos cuatro de muy diverso tenor, de modo tal de dar cuenta del amplio abanico de intereses de la artista. Sus figuras –que parecen burlarse del límite entre abstracción y figuración– se presentan como verdaderas mutaciones de seres ya sea biomórfico-góticos, geométricos (con alguna reminiscencia de los figurines de teatro constructivistas), o, en el caso de sus calaveras, entre míticos y surreales. / Read more
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