Maria Bill

URBAN LANDSCAPES

Through time, with different means (drawing, painting, engraving, optical objects), work is structured by an interior and geographical path.
A bound develops with the exterior world.

San Francisco is an attractive city because it is atypical.
Forged on heights, wilderness, natural violence, haunted by the shadow of periodical earth movements, cleared by a tonic breath coming from the Pacific, it abounds in ceaselessly renewed energy.
Its architecture springs from the fog, opens up: the sun and the winds of the ocean bring brightness, contrasts; color is more brilliant and stronger.
Every hollow, every hill contains and gives away a vision - an unexpected space.
Crossroads in suspension allow us to mesure the silence, the peace - a breath - before beginning a descent or an ascent.
The existence of these small intimate areas composes with the high architectures of the center.

Walking, travelling around the city helped me catch different visions, study the possibility of multiple structured compositions, understand the specific properties of these urban landscapes.
Through memories, pictures I gathered, my work regurgitates and defines these characteristics into a personal idea or reaction to it; a wa...

1998/99 .master of fine arts / école supérieure des beaux-arts (esba) / geneva

1992/98 .stays and workshops at the marc de michelis studios / Lyon / France
(research on drawing, etching, colour)

1990/91 .istituto per l'arte e il restauro – painting department / florence / Italy
(studies on painting technics of the renaissance period, drawing and etching)

1983/86 .diploma in interior architecture / école supérieure d’arts appliqués (esaa) / geneva

1982/83 .history of art with an option in chinese and drawing at the esba / faculty of literature/university of geneva.

. co-founder and vice president of the association of artists ‘Cheminée-Nord’ / KUGLER factory / geneva
. art teacher (drawing, perspective, 3D,) at Ecole des Arts Appliqués / geneva.