After a successful year 2022 with two special exhibitions, the Magidunum Association is pleased to present the Dandelion Exhibition with Christine Bühler again this year in addition to the regular seasonal exhibitions in spring, summer and autumn. We will start with the spring exhibition in March.
Bettina Costa from Rheinfelden shows paintings and collages
The following artists will present their works:
Agnes Steinle from Möhlin shows her paintings inspired by nature and everyday life, which she brings to canvas or cardboard with acrylic, ink, charcoal, pencil, pastel chalk and watercolor.
Agnes Keller from Magden combines ceramics with driftwood. She also draws her inspiration from nature. The forest and the lakeshore provide her with the material she needs for her works. Her angel figures are very well known.
Bettina Costa from Rheinfelden, who grew up in Argentina, shows paintings and collages (picture). Her originally realistic style has changed into the abstract. With the theme of tango, she shows movement, passion and music in her works.
The exhibition will take place from 10 to 26 March. On 10 March, there will be a vernissage. Opening hours: Fridays from 5 to 8 p.m. and Saturdays/Sundays from 2 to 5 p.m.
During the exhibition, the village museum is also open. The next exhibition in the Magidunum Museum Gallery will be the Dandelion Exhibition from 31 March to 2 April.
FRICKTAL24.ch (Free internet newspaper for the Frick valley, Switzerland)
By: Lana Regtering
After a successful year 2022 with two special exhibitions, the Magidunum Association is pleased to hold the Dandelion Exhibition with Christine Bühler again this year in addition to the regular seasonal exhibitions in spring, summer and autumn.
Detail from the painting Tangollage by Bettina Costa
Starting with the spring exhibition in March, the following artists will present their works:
Agnes Steinle from Möhlin shows her paintings inspired by nature and everyday life, which she brings to canvas or cardboard with acrylic, ink, charcoal, pencil, pastel chalk and watercolor.
Agnes Keller from Magden combines ceramics with driftwood. She also draws her inspiration from nature. The forest and the lakeshore provide her with the material she needs for her works. Her angel figures are very well known.
Bettina Costa from Rheinfelden, who grew up in Argentina, shows paintings and collages. Her originally realistic style has changed to abstract. With the theme of tango, she shows movement, passion and music in her works.
The exhibition will take place from 10 to 26 March. On 10 March, there will be a vernissage. Opening hours: Fridays from 17:00 to 20:00 and Saturdays/Sundays from 14:00 to 17:00. The village museum is also open during the exhibition. Come in and be surprised by the Taunerhaus in its original state.
The next exhibition in the Magidunum Museum Gallery will then be the Dandelion Exhibition from 31 March to 2 April. Magidunum Association
«fricktal24.ch – the online newspaper for Fricktal»
Galerie Katapult is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of works by Daniel Oertli and Bettina Costa
Duration of the exhibition: 07 November – 03 December 2022
Bettina Costa will be present at the gallery on the following days: 10 November and 03 December or by appointment (079 273 2025 – bettina.costa@coaster.ch)
Open to the public: Tuesday to Friday 14:00 – 18:30, Saturday 11:00 – 16:00
Galerie Katapult in Exile Due to renovation temporarily at the St. Johanns-Vorstadt 33 – 4056 Basel www.galeriekatapult.ch
Open to the public:
Saturday 9 April 11h – 19h
Sunday 10 April 11h – 17h
Monday 11 April 11h – 19h
Tuesday 12 April 11h – 19h
Wednesday 13 April 11h – 19h
Thursday 14 April 11h – 19h
Friday 15 April 11h – 19h
Saturday 16 April 11h – 19h
Finissage:
Sunday 17 April 11h – 15h
Galerie Katapult St. Johanns-Vorstadt 35, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
RHEINFELDEN Bettina Costa creates collages in which familiar places become a surreal adventure. For this, the artist from Rheinfelden uses paper, scissors, scalpel and glue. But that is not her only form of art.
Peter Schütz — az Aargauer Zeitung 07.02.2022, 05.00
The artist Bettina Costa lives in Rheinfelden since 2006. In the photo, at her workplace. Photo: Peter Schütz
Instead of the sky, a bathing scene as in the Rhine appears above the Feldschlösschen brewery, while in the foreground a puppy gazes spellbound at a billiard ball. Opposite the old town, skiers are enjoying themselves in the sunlit snow, above the tower of the town hall rises a face with closed eyes, into which a mountaineer is sticking his peak.
And on the roof of the Red House on Habich-Dietschy-Strasse in Rheinfelden, a herd of elephants is tramping around, watched by people on a beach that leads right up to the front door. Not far from there, lives the creator of these bizarre pictures: Bettina Costa, born in Rosario, Argentina in 1965, living in Switzerland since 2001 and in Rheinfelden since 2006, adds new perspectives and stories to the «normal» view of local sights.
The collage shows the Red House of Rheinfelden in a different light. Photo: Bettina Costa
The 56-year-old artist describes the series called «Rheinfelden surreal» as a «humorous-provocative examination of my place of residence». She uses photos she took herself as a basis, the other elements she takes from magazines.
«I work very precisely, I’m picky»
There is a similar series from Budapest, two others are entitled «Intervenciones» and «Surreal Collage». «It’s a game», says Bettina Costa. A game between inspiration and ideas, perception and the courage to turn familiar things upside down. The art is not only in the pictorial arrangement, but also in the technique. Costa does not make it as easy as the end result may look like.
Some collages are created digitally on the computer in small editions, others as one-of-a-kind pieces entirely done by hand. What the artist needs: «Good paper, good scissors, a good scalpel, good glasses, good light.» Her standards are high. «It must be perfect.» Everything has to be placed appropriately, then comes the most difficult phase: gluing. Costa needs a steady hand for that.
That’s why this work is very well thought out, not at all spontaneous:
«I want things clear.»
And: «I work very precisely, I’m picky.» This also applies to painting, the second pillar of Costa’s artistic cosmos. After a figurative-realistic beginning, she turned to geometric representation. Her painting is reduced to surfaces and lines, motifs are not recognizable.
Although these paintings may also appear to be simple, they are created through long, complex processes. Costa uses tape to achieve the clarity and compositional balance she envisions with paint and brush.
Costa turns recycling into an art form
But what about the thin monochrome canvases on wooden frames, some of which measure more than three metres? In Costa’s flat, two of them hang vertically like beams on a high wall. Apart from a single colour, they contain nothing: no figures, no drawings. In this way, Bettina Costa uses them to divide the space, using architecture as a playground for a few concise interventions.
Bettina Costa with the portrait of her husband Toni Scherrer. Photo: Peter Schütz
This is the story behind: in their first life, these canvases were the stage sets of the theater in the hotel owned by the parents of Bettina Costa’s husband, Toni Scherrer, in Laufen. Instead of buying new canvases, Costa took the old backdrops stretched out on simple wooden slats and painted over them.
Thus, Costa turns recycling into a form of art. Speaking of the husband: on the staircase there is a green painting with a red faceless silhouette standing in the centre. Nevertheless, he is recognisable as Toni Scherrer. Here, too, Bettina Costa has achieved a high degree of recognition with minimal means.
Di, 30. Nov. 2021 Neue Fricktaler Zeitung (excerpt)
…The ironic, enigmatic photomontages that Bettina Costa is showing at the exhibition in Rheinfelden also give a lot to explore. In the pictures, the familiar from the cityscape of Rheinfelden mixes with the phatastic from exotic regions. In the middle of Rheinfelden in front of the Red House, for example, you can swim like in the Caribbean and above the Zwimpfer’s Pile-Up building at the Habich-Dietschy-Strasse, jellyfish float like in an underwater world…
