"IHR camille graeser" offers an insight into the creative process of Swiss concrete artist Camille Graeser

"IHR camille graeser" (Engl.: Yours, Camille Graeser) is a close-up look at the creative process of Swiss avant-garde artist, graphic and interior designer Camille Graeser (1892–1980). The juxtaposed sketches and draft designs—some intimate and subtle, others surprising—offer an insight into his world of ideas and visual practice. Here, we have a concrete experience of the intimate way this work begins.

Between 1925 and 1975, he completed numerous drawings, mainly in colored pencil, chalk, pencil, and ink. The many different paper types (transparent, squared, perforated, torn) in various formats, are inscribed with a wide range of handwritten notes, stamps, or signatures. On the one hand, these are sketched ideas, compositional schemes, studies for paintings, prints, and relief constructions, on the other, designs for everyday objects such as scarves, knitwear, wallpaper, or decorative fabrics. These include several illustrations and technical drawings of furniture and interiors, some of which the trained carpenter designed for his own domestic spaces.