The Art of Brunch

MOVEMENT – RENÉ GROEBLI

René Groebli has always been an artist on the move. Movement is second nature to him, which explains why the development of his art does not follow a linear path and his works cannot be read as single iconic pictures. Groebli feels and works lyrically. He apprehends the medium of photography as a centrifugal force moving out from the centre - a centre that is dynamic, the primal form of creativity.

René Groebli's oevre, that much is clear, cannot be reduced to a single theme, genre or style. Time and again, he has ventured into new photographic territory without settling there permanently. The Swiss artist regularly attempted the unheard of, or rather, the previously unseen - to the amazement of his contemporaries, who did not always understand what was going on aesthetically and formally. René Groebli is a doer, a tinkerer, an explorer and inventor whose preferred…