Adrian Falkner

While the features of his art shine though in the sprit and colors of his work, its form has radically changed today. Circular movements repeated again and again to form multiple layers, artfully blending colors and techniques, have replaced constructions based on the letters of his pseudonym -Smash 137-. Two circles aren’t never the same; they overlap without ever becoming superimposed, an astonishing fact when you’re aware of just how precisely the Swiss artist used to construct his work, both in the street and the workshop.
Adrian Falkner abandoned his pseudonym and the physical constraints imposed by constructing his paintings based on its letters. He spent 2015 - 2016 with teachers from the Fine Arts School of Basle, letting us see that a radical transformation is underway.

Based on the observation that, ever since he started painting, his work has been highly controlled, precise and meticulous, Adrian Falkner is striving to attain a form of freedom by experimenting with thought-free – but not uncontrolled – gestures. The idea of breaking loose from the chains of habit guiding his hand movement fascinated him to the extent of becoming the core focus of his new paintings.
(Extract from Thinking hand published in 2016 by Galerie Le Feuvre)

Submitted by Le Feuvre & Roze