Uta Neumann & Barbara Collé – Week One – this story started with a gift

Jun 12, 2022

A gift from us, Uta Neumann and Barbara Collé, to the team of Sasso Residency. And from that gift came another: an invitation to spend a month here as artists in residence. And now that we are here, more than five months after the first gift, we notice that the gift has many more sides to discover. We are staying here together with Susanne Waeckerlin and Tonjaschja Adler. It is so very exciting to find our way and our work together this upcoming month.

The gift we made for Sasso was an Artist Book printed with Riso: ‘Von Farben, die in Steinen wohnen’.

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the gift | ARTIST BOOK

Von Farben,
die in Steinen wohnen.

This book tells the story of two artists: one completely absorbed in the experience of colours and the other deeply captivated by the mysterious beauty of stones. From the moment they met they walked daily through the forest they called ‘the caramel woods’, and while walking kept pointing out colours and placing stones in each other’s hands. ‘Do you see this? Do you feel that?’

Von Farben, die in Steinen wohnen
Artist Book
No.1 | Teal – Orange – Grey
Edition of 3.
Uta Neumann and Barbara Collé, 2022.
24 Riso prints printed by Knust at AGA LAB Amsterdam.

This is the first publication we made together. To our great surprise, the beauty of a stone coincided with the beauty of colours. And now, when we go through the publication, we whisper questioningly: does the stone show the colours, or do the colours show the stone?

Preliminary

Last week we stayed in the Alpenhof panorama lodge. We were there to visit the lavish, incredible Andreas Züst library to prepare this residency at Sasso.

ONE WEEK RESIDENCY AT

Bibliothek Andreas Züst.

We went like flying foxes through the narrow corridors and caves of the library, soaring through the insane treasures of books we found along the way.

What connection can we find between rainbows, rituals, our consciousness, dragons, caves and the dawn, was the question that kept finding us a new book, a new title, a new quote.

A slumbering Dragon

It really was an insanely beautiful tour through Andreas Züst’s library and we found some wonderful understated treasures that we have now brought back to Sasso to continue twirling, walking around and looking at from different angles and from there create a new work and perhaps find the slumbering dragon here… Perhaps just below the surface of the lake? Perhaps up here against the hill between all the tones of green? Last night we dreamed about a waterfall nearby, we can’t wait to go and look for that. For where there is water there are dragon snakes, rainbows and shelters.

To be continued…

Uta Neumann:
Website: http://uta-neumann.de/
Instagram: @u_neu_mann

Barbara Collé
Website: https://www.barbaracolle.nl/
Instagram: @bar.bara.colle

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