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“Thierry Feuz: Silent Wind”—2026 Solo Exhibition
— A contemporary echo of Romanticism
Shanghai·The Bund
2026.3.14 – 5.17
Bluerider ART
Curatorial Statement
Thierry Feuz (Switzerland, b. 1968) was born in Vienna and currently lives and works in Geneva. Within Feuz’s creative universe, art, science, and philosophy converge. His practice reflects a deep concern with the universal human condition of existence, revealing unseen dimensions of life through his distinctive painting techniques. His works have been widely collected including the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Neuchâtel, the Singapore Art Foundation, UBS Switzerland, and Saks Fifth Avenue in the United States.
《Thierry Feuz: Silent Wind》is not only a symphony of colour, but also a romantic pursuit of memory, nature, and time. The title Silent Wind metaphorically points to the origin of the artist’s creative impulse — childhood moments spent in the countryside with his grandfather. Guided by him, Feuz would lie on the hillsides gazing at the sky, sensing the textures of the earth and the presence of wind, watching all things dance in its invisible currents. For Feuz, these fleeting yet deeply imprinted images represent the purest form of romance in life.
This contemplative gaze resonates with the philosophy of Marcel Proust in In Search of Lost Time. Just as Proust awakens profound memories through taste, Feuz transforms fragments of time into floating fields of colour and luminous halos on canvas, opening fissures in time where past and present overlap. Feuz’s artistic vision can be understood as a contemporary reinterpretation of the spirit of nineteenth-century Romanticism. Unlike traditional Romantic painters who used dramatic mountains and turbulent seas to reflect human insignificance before nature, Feuz reshapes the modern sense of the sublime through an ambiguity between the microscopic and the cosmic. The organic forms across his canvases resemble both cells dividing under a microscope and galaxies exploding through a telescope. This fusion of science and poetic imagination reveals the mysterious forces underlying the origin of life. The flowers and vines that appear in Feuz’s paintings are not botanical records, but emotional carriers that construct inner landscapes. Their highly saturated colours are not physical hues found in nature; rather, they are psychological images filtered through memory and emotion. This meditation on time culminates in the exhibition title Silent Wind. Wind itself is invisible, yet the moment it scatters petals into motion becomes the instant when life feels both most vibrant and most fragile.
Swiss art critic Oliver Orest Tschirky once observed: “The painting style of Thierry Feuz reflects the philosophical consciousness and thematic awareness of the postmodern spirit.” Across different series, Feuz employs layered structures, wet-on-wet techniques, and fluid pigment movements to freeze dynamic moments in time. The melancholy associated with Romantic reflections on transience is transformed here into a gesture of resistance against disappearance. Ultimately, the floating and rootless organisms in Feuz’s paintings evoke the “Blue Flower” of the German Romantic poet Novalis — a symbol not found in botanical reality but growing within the human soul, representing an enduring desire for the eternal, the pure, and the beautiful in the midst of a restless contemporary world.
This solo exhibition presents Feuz’s recent works alongside several signature series: Primavera Esterel Using wet-painting techniques, this series pays homage to Botticelli’s Primavera. Within gradients of orange and golden hues, ethereal blossoms drift through luminous colour fields, forming a romantic rhythm where nature and dream intertwine. Silent Winds Opus Panorama A classic series capturing the moment when wind sweeps across open fields. Flowers and grasses scatter through the air, freezing the fleeting beauty of life carried by a gentle breeze. Silver Winds Corail and Golden Atlas Through radiant silver and golden palettes, these works depict cascades of drifting petals, evoking flourishing vitality and the splendour of life.
Entering Thierry Feuz: Silent Wind, viewers step into a poetic realm woven from memory, nature, and dream. Light shifts, colours breathe, and time seems to pause upon that wind-swept hillside. The exhibition becomes a journey through remembrance — a lyrical contemplation of nature and memory, and a profound contemporary resonance of Romanticism.
Thierry Feuz: Silent Wind — 2026 Solo Exhibition
A Contemporary Echo of Romanticism
Press preview: 13 March 2026 (Fri) 2–5 pm
Collectors Preview & Opening Reception: 14 March 2026 (Sat) 2:30–4 pm
Public Opening: 14 March 2026 (Sat) 4:30–6:30 pm
Exhibition Dates: 14 March – 17 May 2026
Bluerider ART Shanghai · The Bund
133 Sichuan Middle Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China
Opening Hours: Tue – Sun 10am – 7pm
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Thierry Feuz
(Swiss, b. 1968)
Graduated from Geneva University of Art and Design (Haute École d'Art et de Design), Feuz currently lives and works in Geneva. In his artistic realm, art, science, and philosophy converge as he explores the universal meaning of "existence" and presents unseen realms through his unique painting techniques. Thierry Feuz's works have been collected by significant institutions and museums, including Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Neuchâtel, Singapore Art Foundation, UBS Bank, Saks Fifth Avenue in the United States, as well as the Breeze Crop. and E.Sun Commercial Bank, among other corporate collections.
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