TRAMONTANA
When Andri Stadler returned from a week-long trip across the Apennine Mountains, he had dozens of photographs in his luggage. Taken without a lens, using only mirrors and lenses, they show overlapping structures, fragments, and contours. In his studio at home, the shadowy photographs became templates for works in black ink. “While traveling in the mountains, I was fascinated by the vacuum-like silence, interrupted only by the rising wind, the murmur of a trickle, or the rhythmic sound of a stone breaking loose in the distance,” recalls the Lucerne-based artist. His ink paintings on handmade paper and linen bring these impressions to life.