Fairfield University Art Museum exhibits paintings and sculptures by H. A. Sigg
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Fairfield University Art Museum exhibits paintings and sculptures by H. A. Sigg
H. A. Sigg, The Bend, 2004. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 32 inches.



FAIRFIELD, CONN.- The Fairfield University Art Museum presents a new exhibition, “H.A. Sigg: Abstract Rivers” on view from Friday March 24, 2017, through Saturday June 10, 2017, in the museum’s Walsh Gallery, in the Quick Center for the Arts, on the campus of Fairfield University.

The exhibition features over 25 paintings and sculptures by Abstract Expressionist Painter H. A. Sigg. Sigg was born in Switzerland in 1924 and studied in Zurich and later Paris, where he was especially captivated by the art of French Nabi painter Pierre Bonnard.

Although his paintings of the 1950s adhere to a figurative idiom, he soon evolved a purely abstract style, whose graceful, atmospheric and minimalist forms and motifs were inflected by aerial views of Southeast Asia, a vantage point he was afforded in 1968 when he was invited by Swissair to fly as artist in residence in the sky. From his privileged, sweeping view from the cockpit, he made sketches of the distant topography below. These became the inspiration and the source of the lithe and geometric abstractions suggestive of terraced fields and gently meandering rivers that characterize his work beginning in the 1970's.

For H. A. Sigg, the river is perhaps the most iconic and resonant subject, a "mysterious force" with a spirit of its own, as he has averred, and a metaphor for the course of human life and the search for inner enlightenment.

In formulating his river imagery, Sigg has pointed to the influence of Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha, whose protagonist encounters the river as a changing yet constant, regenerating force, and a source of wisdom and renewal—tropes that inform his river-inspired imagery.

A recently published monograph on the artist and his work by critic Edward Lucie-Smith, entitled H.A. Sigg: The River, is available for sale at the Walsh Gallery.










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