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
Mercosul Biennial Catalogue 2010
Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brasil
By Victoria Noorthoorn
Chief Curator of the 7 Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brasil
The fantastic, rather than the comic, is the register under which Nina Lola Bachhuber’s drawings of monochromatic figures (whether in blue or red ink) are transformed. In this exhibition, there are four very different such series in order to evidence the breath of her interests. Her figures-who seem to mock the interface between abstraction and figuration-come to us as true mutations of beings, regardless of their nature (some are biomorphic-gothic, others geometric-with a certain air of the figurines used in constructivist theater-, and still others, as in the case of her calaveras (skulls), are mythical and surreal). / 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
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
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