Maria Magdalena Z’Graggen

Luminous Flux

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Maria Magdalena Z’Graggen (born 1958 in Basel) has been attracting attention for many years with her abstract paintings and large-format watercolors. This publication is the first to provide an overview of Maria Magdalena Z’Graggen’s oeuvre from the beginning of her career around 1992 until the present day. The focus here is on pieces that in retrospect have proven to be important milestones of her artistic development. While she began by making installations and Super 8 films, from 1998 onwards Z’Graggen turned towards non-representational, polychromatic painting. She has shown a particular interest in playful formal inventions and has preferred to create extensive series. Numerous illustrations introduce the artist’s central pieces and work series and sketch her artistic progress, as well as highlighting cross-references between the different media employed.