Born in Zurich in 1963, Mayo Bucher trained as a graphic designer and his work draws upon traditional and digital technologies. He is one of the most accomplished artists in Europe today. This show presents an overview of his abstract, geometrically inflected work in painting and printmaking in a variety of scales. The exhibition also includes documentation of some of his chief recent design and architectural projects. He has collaborated on major projects with some of the leading architectural partnerships in Switzerland.
He is well known for his album covers for the outstanding independent record company ECM. For many years now he has pursued a full-time career as a painter and has shown his work in solo and group shows in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Majorca, Canada and France.
Mayo Bucher exhibited his paintings in the major 1999 University of Brighton group show ECM: Selected Signs. This is his first solo show in Britain and will tour in autumn 2002 to the Kunstakademie, Leipzig. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication with essays by Professor Michael Tucker of the University of Brighton and Professor Ruedi Baur of the Kunstakademie, Leipzig.
