The Sun Eater

Jean-Kenta Gauthier is pleased to continue its exploration of the early phases of the work of Swiss artist Hannah Villiger (1951–1997) with The Sun Eater , presented at its Vaugirard gallery, as an extension of the exhibition Hannah Villiger: All the Lonely Things My Hands Have Done , shown last year at the Odéon gallery, in collaboration with The Estate of Hannah Villiger. Articulated around a substantial selection of large-scale works on paper produced in Italy between 1976 and 1978, The Sun Eater traces these years of prolific experimentation, during which, within a luminous context combining idyll and a fragile sense of ease, the artist engages with the surrounding landscape and conveys a vital impulse. This period precedes the 1980s, when the onset of illness would make her body the central subject of her work, until her untimely death at the age of forty-five.