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The experience fundamental to Cecilia Visser's works, is that of the hiker walking the narrow path on top of a mountain ridge, left and right of her the abyss of space, or along the cliffs of a rough coastal line with at one side the endless expanses above the ocean. Any hiker knows what Cecilia Vissers knows: a different gaze - especially the imagined perspective from above that makes big objects in the landscape small without breaking up their structures - may change a rugged landscape into an arrangement of volumes, light and atmosphere. This is the perspective, charged with memories of the sublime landscapes of Ireland and Scotland with poetic names like Blacksod Bay, Canna, Gaoth, Land's End, which guides her activities in the studio. From the landscapes she loves, she brings in the combination of matter and atmosphere: matter as in the sheer weight of her wall-sculptures, atmosphere as in their architecture. Every measure, every curve in her work is carefully considered and reconsidered, as repeated hikes through a specific landscape shed new light on it every time. It's in the nature of the landscape that it never repeats itself. Do the minimal shapes in Cecilia Vissers ' works contradict this? Not when we look upon her sculptures as exciting syntheses of those other qualities of a landscape: autonomous, complete in itself, useless, beautiful, present.
Objects to experience that never have to elaborate on their genesis, because they were made to be present.
text, Cees de Boer, arthistorian, Amsterdam, May, 2011
Artists: Cecilia Vissers
