Artistic vision, technical skill and continuous innovation characterise Simon Berger‘s creative practice. Pioneering an improbable method of working glass in a two-dimensional, figurative way, the Swiss artist literally breaks boundaries with a revolutionary approach to his medium of choice, thereby moving beyond the century-old convention of building and modelling vitreous matter. Contrary to this long-standing tradition, his is a form of anti-creation as the destructive gesture of mere blows of a hammer on a glass pane ultimately ‘draws‘ images of great visual intrigue that emerge from the tangle of powerfully orchestrated cracks. By virtue of his unique sculptural language Simon Berger explores the depths of the material, striking the glass to liberate photorealistic ‘paintings‘ from the presumed flatness of the surface. […]

The closer and briefer the blows, the stronger the contrasts and the shades. In his hands, the hammer is no longer a tool of destruction, but rather an amplifier of effects. His lacerated portraits, incised in glass, transport the gaze into the tangles of cracks and creases which he refers to as “morphogenesis”. […]

From the controlled shattering of glass and its resulting fractures, art recalls its power of suscitating wonder and awe since through destruction, Simon Berger allows beauty to emerge.

Ganga Singh grew up in her ancestral home in Rajasthan. His childhood was cradled by nature, fields, ponds and birds.

Ganga Singh often went camping, and one of his favorite spots was the Chambal river gorge, which flows between high cliffs covered with dense forests. The Kota region is known as a paradise for fish eagles, which he used to watch in action with his friends. The famous miniaturists of Kota also depicted the Chambal Valley in hunting scenes, and Ganga Singh’s works combine a certain influence of this tradition with his own bold interpretation of the theme. The paintings in this series are personal visions in which he attempts to give landscapes and rock formations a human character. He uses gold and ochre colors to evoke birds of prey, and the bold folk forms that influence his living space give his paintings strength and energy.