About Nicole Schraner
Construction : Decay : New Emergence : Destruction : Creation
For NiNi, this procedure is the symbolically implemented equivalence to the cycle of life.
In her artistic work, NiNi – Nicole Schraner combines painting with drawing, collage and printing techniques. In addition to acrylic paint, she also uses tar, wax, rust, stone powder and found, carelessly thrown away objects, thus combining them into a story.
Graphic elements play an important role, be they diagrams, construction drawings or rows of numbers, typefaces or form impressions.
Layer by layer, all elements are transformed into new structures of meaning, painted over and partly scratched away again.
In her painting courses she combines training and over 30 years of experience as an adult educator and as an artist.
Artistic training
Mosaic studies at the Università di Belle Arti Ravenna Italy
Art training at the University of Art and Design (HKG) Basel
Training at art academies throughout Europe
Owner of the company DIDAKTIS Adult Education & Coaching and Kunst.Werk.Statt in Basel
Lecturer and coach for executives and vocational trainers
Methodological and didactic training
University of Zurich: CAS adult education
Lucerne University of Education: eLearning Designer
Award
2015 - Award of Excellence - Rassegna Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Italy
Art historian about NiNi's works
Images by NiNi are a sensual delight in structure, materiality, layers and joyful, multi-layered expressiveness. She integrates found objects carelessly discarded from a wide variety of materials onto canvas or wooden supports. She thus creates an emotional connection between past and present and gives these objects a new, highly emotional, even sensual future. Perception, language and communication are NiNi's passion, so text and significant numbers should also flow in and spread out in graphic forms.
Letters and numbers are inflated and attract attention. They are taken from the typographic statement and sometimes only placed as a graphic object. The viewers are challenged to feel and reconsider their own communication. Context versus decontextualization versus traditional patterns of perception.
Always searching for key narrative pieces: here a handwritten love letter from a flea market, a word from a headline, a piece of rusted iron item unearthed in a container, there a handwritten shopping list, a torn scrap of fabric or rare photographs of jazz musicians of the 1930s, depictions of pop -Icons or Mickey Mouse. NiNi looks for and finds the beautiful and deeply emotional in everyday, discarded objects.
These objects carry their own story of places, times and people, but cannot tell it themselves. Tearing out of context and recomposing: The process of recomposition forms forgotten, unwanted objects into a new synthesis and creates meaningful imagination openers. This creates a whole adventure land full of funny, sharp, thoughtful or entertaining stories. A great gift full of beauty and honesty from supposedly worthless fragments.
Inspirations on a canvas. Combination of sensation and expressiveness.
Enormous creative potential is released here. These also come into play to a large extent when NiNi creates commissioned images. She responds intensively to the wishes, needs and feelings of the client and binds them - sometimes recognizable to others, sometimes hidden - in their pictures.
With loving attention, NiNi creates pictures that, despite their complexity, intricacy and versatility, appear classically elegant and in which you can always discover new details and connections.
The chaotic variety of life is tamed, but often a tongue-in-cheek wit remains, which the pictures reveal to the viewer; they reveal all secrets with a time delay.
Susanne Blaser, art historian