Presentation
Olivier Furter is a Swiss artist born in 1962 who lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. The artist surrounds himself with images. We discover them stuck on the wall, placed on a table, leaning up against a shelf in a temporary arrangement. Random images, personal photos, bits and pieces of paper. Something – often almost nothing – might trigger his imagination – might lead to a painting. Or perhaps the unexpected may do the trick. If he enlarges an image, other visual surprises may well occur. A collection of indefinite and colorful traces, a treasure trove. A small cat, adopted from an animal rescue shelter, lounges in its chair outside the studio door. There's more than meets the eye. Indeed, what we see may well be an absence. Eyes usually make the face, yet in Olivier Furter's painting of an enlarged face, the nostrils are the focal point. Out of focus, the eyes don't appear, so to speak. What remains is 'the absence of'… – inviting us to seek other meanings in the painting. Likewise, in many of his painted landscapes, "the cloud is the star" and "a cloud moves so fast," says Oliver. The focus in these paintings shifts to these new stars and their strange splendor captures our attention. Or the obviously stuffed creature the painter shows us in its snow and night setting! Surely, 'in the absence of…' reminds us of another creature? And so it's Olivier Furter's paintings that strangely transform nature and shift the senses.
Face II
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,458 $1,240
Topographie Humaine II
Olivier Furter
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,019 $1,717
Mensch III
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,346
Zimmer I
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,346 $1,144
Runway I
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 63 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 24.8 x 0 inch
$1,346
Remembering I
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,795 $1,526
Red Mountain
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$1,795
Leaving SF III
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,683
Île-de-France IV
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,683 $1,430
After the Rain III
Olivier Furter
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,066
After the Rain I
Olivier Furter
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$898 $763
Landscape II
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$337
Stillleben Französisch
Olivier Furter
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$393 $334
Familien Bild
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 76.2 x 56 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 22 x 0 inch
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Walking Through an Imaginary Landscape
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
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Topographie Humaine I
Olivier Furter
Painting - 100 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
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