Jerónimo Rüedi »Sciéance«

Jerónimo Rüedi builds depth and surface on canvas and panel to create immersive visual spaces. Smudges hover above like scratches on a lens, while scribbled forms emerge from deep within. These layered gestures generate distortions that fracture perception and produce cognitive schisms on the visual plane. With his airbrush Rüedi draws and conjures shapes as if from smoke. Multiple dimensions appear compressed onto a single surface, forming a kind of quark soup. Clusters of half-articulated forms take shape, like incomplete thoughts, teetering between imagery and state. The works on canvas are matte and saturated shadowy images. They read like LHC observations of quantum phenomena projected onto the walls of Plato's Cave. The new paintings on wood contain the same apparitions, dissolving before one's eyes, but here encapsulated in beeswax and resin forming an encaustic vault. The technique produces a glass-like surface – a luminous threshold like a window onto the Phantom Zone (see 1978 movie Superman). The once-liquid resin drops remain suspended on the sides, cured mid-flow. Sealed and hermetic they preserve the fleeting within a hardened skin, like a Jurassic mosquito, preserved in time.