List of products by brand Yvonne Robert
EXHBITIONS
2023
July, Group "Enough", curated by Gabriele Herzog at Snow Gallery, Berlin
June, Group "Curated", PIERMARQ*, Sydney
May, Solo "Colours, That's The Time I Love The Best"
at Galerie Bertrand Grimont, Paris
April, Group, The George Gallery, SC
Jan, Group "Imagine Utopia", Nomadic Art Space, Olten, Switzerland
2022
Oct, Solo, "Air and Sound", The George Gallery, Charleston SC
June, Group, Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver
May, Solo "A Touch of Lemon", PIERMARQ*, Sydney
April, Group, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, NYC
2021
Group, The Summer Show, PIERMARQ*, Sydney
Group, The George Gallery, Charleston SC
Group, Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver
Group, PIERMARQ*Contemporary, PIERMARQ*, Sydney
Solo "Pinky Promise", PIERMARQ*, Sydney
Duo with Damian Stamer at The George Gallery, Charleston SC
Group, PIERMARQ*, Sydney
2020
Group, PIERMARQ*, Sydney
Group "Way Out", La Grange, Cernay-Lès-Reims
Duo with Gabriele Herzog "Cake", Cheryl Hazan Gallery, NYC
2019
Solo at Paul Smith, London, represented by Richeldis Fine Art
in collaboration with @paulsmithdesign
Mural at ATBO furniture, Copenhagen, in collaboration with Nicoline Olsen
Group show with Gabriel Herzog and Caroline Popham,
Circle 1 Gallery, Berlin
Duo with Hugo Lugo "Profile 2", Cheryl Hazan Gallery, NYC
Group, formato14, Madrid
Group, Amélie Maison d'Art, Paris
Group, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, NYC
Group, Paul Smith, London, represented by Richeldis Fine Art in collaboration with @paulsmithdesign
2018
Solo Boilerroom, Luis Adelantado, Valencia
Group, Cagegallery, Barcelona
Solo, Kunstsalon Zürich
PRESS
Byron Arts Magazine BAM, Issue 20/2021
Helvetia and Sons – Interview, March 2021
You wanted a list – Interview, August 2020
Interview - Inside of You - Lula JAPAN Issue 12, March 2020
More than a book case, Product magazine by ATBO furniture, about the mural, text Charlotte Jul, photos & concept Appeal Magazine, Feb 2020
Interview by SGAC, Sascha Gianella, Curator + Advisor, Oct 2019
Émergent Magazine issue 03, Oct 2018
Blog La Bislacca, June 2018
Architectural Digest, May 2018
Interview Abstract.mag, May 2018
Yvonne Robert grew up in Germany. She is now living in Zurich. She is an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer.
Her work mainly comprises paintings in acrylic on canvas. The focus is on the dynamic relationship between form and color, expression and maximum reduction.
In a recent interview, German artist Yvonne Robert said “If you go to Pinterest or Google and enter “yellow circle, abstract painting” for example, the hits you get will be all seem very similar at first sight. And yet you linger over some of them. Why is that? Perhaps because the proportions are better, or you like a particular yellow more? You can’t always explain it. It’s a feeling. It’s right (for someone), it strikes a chord, it’s refined despite its simplicity.”1
The often bright and gestural paintings of Yvonne Robert result from an intuitive approach to color and composition. Her spontaneity of conception and dynamic gesture is void of complex references and their associated meanings. Instead, she is steadfast in her commitment to universal concepts of form, mass, proportion, rhythm and structure, which constitute a common thread in her work. Above all, she is motivated by color, and her use of it is practiced and studied.
Art, other artists, and her environment are all constant sources of inspiration. Robert grew up in a family of artists and found home-life aesthetically stimulating and informative. She remembers her parents often discussing the notions of color and form, and she was fascinated by the patterns and motifs of the 1960’s that filled her home. These early influences perhaps motivated Robert to pursue a career initially in graphic design and subsequently in fine art, the origins of which certain motifs in her current work could possibly be traced. Importantly, however, when Robert observes her environment, she perceives color first and foremost – a person’s hair in combination with the color of their skin and their scarf, an old bike that someone has painted in a creamy light grey with a new brown leather seat; sheep in the pastures, the lake, the sky, the mountains; how different the shades of blue are that interplay with each other in the sky, and how endless the combinations seem.
Her life experiences and feelings are processed and expressed via the execution of paint to canvas. She once told me that she “often finds flowers so incredibly beautiful that the experience is indescribable”, and thus, she conveys her exaltation in her painting. In all her work, her intention is to bring the beauty and fascination of color and form to the canvas. She is not only interested in forms or objects themselves but the act of depiction itself. Her compositions are accumulations of pigment, forms, and lines, which conjure a way of seeing, and how they relate to each other.
Sascha Gianella, on July 31st, 2019
