Galerie Heinzer Reszler is celebrating almost 10 years of collaboration with Mirko Baselgia with a new exhibition that fuses the rich history of the gallery space with the contemporary work of the Graubünden artist, inviting visitors to explore a world of organic processes, structures and reflections on life.

The pieces in the Divide, replicate, deviate, fragment, disintegrate series delve into the microscopic world of life, representing cell division and growth as part of a natural cycle. Mirko Baselgia uses Swiss pine wood, whose growth rings and grain reveal the ‘flow’ of life. The rings evoke time, the phases of life and the cycle of the seasons. The grain reflects the stages of growth, while the knots can be seen metaphorically as ‘cells’ or ‘nuclei’ - centres where the sun's energy is stored and transferred.

In these nodes, energy circulates like the nucleus of a living cell. The inlays symbolise the transfer of energy, the movement and renewal of each life cycle. The artist invites us to see the knots as the tree's ‘energy centres’, where light is transformed into growth, recalling cell division and photosynthesis. In this way, pinewood shows that life, whether in a tree or in our cells, is based on a continuous exchange of energy.

In his works Landscape, including Landscape - unimpressed by roaring floods and Landscape - two directions, the artist interprets landscapes as symbolic expressions of the flow of life and human development. Inspired by his visit to the Daisen-in temple in Kyoto, he creates metaphorical landscapes that reflect the paths and choices of a lifetime. The shingles used in these works take different forms, symbolising water, stones, sand and earth: moving water evokes a life of ups and downs, while still water suggests mental or spiritual maturity. The stones represent obstacles on the path of life, which must be overcome to find one's way. (…)