Regarding the 1960s, ’70s and you may ’80s, self-educated musician Hans Scharer coated more than 100 lady – the guy dubbed them Madonnas – after the a single, rigid algorithm. He’d carry out a keen eggs-designed direct and you may plop they atop a keen ovalesque looks with no shoulder between, building the newest shape out-of good Russian toy cropped in the bust. This new facial has actually he painted hover somewhere between an effective Byzantine portrait and you may an effective voodoo model.

Their sensual watercolors, also, if you’re intimate and you will crass and several fun, shine a kind of spirituality

Each one of Scharer’s Madonnas is special within the specifics – one smiles, one grimaces, one to sleeps agape, all the just as frustrating. Some are the fresh tone off ghosts, anybody else try draped during the rainbows. Most don cloaks and you can brag enough time, clumpy locks. This new Madonnas are made of oil paints superimposed on the heavy, which have occasional rocks, hairs and points associated with brand new layers from pigment.

Scharer was born in Switzerland and moved to Paris in his twenties to be a musician. Artwork Brut was in style during the time, which generated their insufficient knowledge much more tempting. The guy hit average profits in his go out – the guy passed away when you look at the 1997 – regardless of if their legacy never ever longer far additional Switzerland. New Swiss Institute happens to be holding his first solo expo from inside the the usa, titled “Madonnas” and you will “Sensual Watercolors.”

Brand new Madonnas are stark, fixed representations regarding girls totems, utterly fearsome and you may slightly sexual – see the repetition of vulva-particularly shapes on the regulators and you will faces.