Artist’s statement by Alex Schauwecker:

I was born in the old imperial city of Kyoto.

I spent my first childhood under the spell of refined old Japanese traditions, surrounded by the mountains and temples in the Kyoto basin.

When I was younger, what kept me on the move was the snowboard and the skateboard. What has stayed with me is an enduring passion for the mountains and an equal fascination by the topography of urban life. From both sources I draw inspiration for my work as an artist up to this day.

“Nature gives me happiness and teaches me patience.”

Working in my atelier in an old district of Zurich, I find myself in the middle of the hustle and bustle of everyday city life, and still, in the distance, I can see the beautiful Swiss Alps. In between, the space of imagination is wide open for a free circulation of ideas and concepts that find their way into my sketches and drawings. I do not think and work in terms of contrasts, of “either- or”. I am rather bent on a kind of art that discovers the common ground of both worlds and challenges the conventional perception of reality.
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