Red Brick Art Museum will host a major retrospective exhibition entitled “Heidi Bucher: Beyond the Skins” on August 5th, featuring the avant-garde artist Heidi Bucher (1926-1993). Regarded as one of the most significant but widely overlooked artists of the 20th century, Heidi Bucher’s showcase is curated by Yan Shijie with assistance from Yan Zi. For the first time in China, this exhibition will present over 100 of her important works, including rediscovered and restored visual materials, early paintings on paper, abstract silk collages, wearable sculptures from her time in Los Angeles, her iconic “skinning” series that explores the relationship between architecture and the human body, and her later works created on Lanzarote Island. These transformative artworks delve into human psychology and spatial connections while also addressing important themes of gender, society, and politics that are central to her artistic expression.

In 1983, at the age of 57, Heidi Bucher set foot on Lanzarote, Spain, a volcanic island situated amid the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean. Surrounded by stretches of black lava and volcanic ash — “source of immersion and trust in the primal and the natural”, this has become the place where her finds inspiration.