The images attract for attention. The Viewer is caught in coulours and stripes. It is not possible looking by chance at them. Because there are stories stuck within the peaces of Canvas, that make curious and are fascinating. Faces are looking at us through chilly red mixed with black and yellow areas. People are on the road. This experienced transparency makes it tricky becouse different layers are linked with each other. There is a special kind of reality evoking: time documents. Irène Hänni is member of the artists' community of the canton of Schwyz. Since 2006 she is working with the mentioned technique. By mixing different layers of her own photographs she makes us see moved, covered up and "careless" scenes.

Idea of deapth. "Many people come to see the show at "art station", sais the gallerist Isabella Lanz during the Christmas-apero on Friday evening. Marlyse Brunner's images are shown beneeth Irène Hännis Inkjet-Prints. The combination of the works of the two artists is very interesting. Both work with lines, make things visible and hide others, for they want to show an idea of deapth.

The opening of the show was in the beginning of December. The exhibition's end is on 23th. January 2010. Irène Hänni sais that this show was a great chance for her. "It was the best that could happen for me." She is standing in front of her twelve-parted work, an inkjet-print with pigmented ink on Canvas. The streaked prints are torn from television screens. Photographs of documentationary films. She opposes them to the experienced worlds like a reminder. 

With the technique of the transparency she points out, that many situations can be looked at with different eyes and can be understood therefore in different ways. "I will show how there is a lack of objectivity thanks to different interpretations" explains the artist her thougts in developing her oeuvre.

Semiotics is the connecting theory of Hannis works. Semiotics the being, the development and the use of signs. With the exhibition at "art station" the Goldau artist has set a sign.

Anita Chiani

(translated by Irène Hänni)

published: 21.12.2009, News Papers: Neue Schwyzer Zeitung and Bote der Urschweiz; 24.12.2009 News Paper: Rigi Post.