“The world is great, but in our heart of hearts, it in as deep as the sea”
Rainer Maria Rilke

Press release

An observant great lonely man,Gérald Hach explores the depth of the emotions which are in our inner world. After travelling all over the world by bike, alone, this discovery-loving man goes to conquer the intimate universe. In this inward journey, he wonders about the duality which is in each person, the polarity of his feelings : power and self-abnegation, strength and gentleness, joy and anger....
All these emotions that we might describe as masculine and respectively feminine,create the richness of our inner dialogue, the alchemy of our emotions.The sculptor evokes the complexity of this dialectic in the well-matched of the contraries . each of his clay or bronze works is the feeling of this blend between feminine and masculine, whose unifying line is expressed by the shape, the texture and the material.

Masterfully
Guided by a profound desire to take up sculpture, one day Gérald Hach heard someone who told him . “If you can sculpt hands, you can do everything.” The challenge was put out. He placed trust in this inspiration and even though he had never attented one course, he started sculpting hands. The achievement was astounding. His first sculpture (in 1995) was a real truthfulness. These two clay hands, which were holding in them the being’s ambivalence, marked the dawn of a declination continually stimulated by the sculptor’s sensibility and creative dynamism, a man who has a passion for the nature of this peers. Through his hands, Gérald Hach shapes the individual plurality, the difference which makes the being’s nature.

Faces with emotions
The other creative side of the sculptor is revealed by his faces. As a mask, each of them presents a symbol which is linked to the most dignified emotions and the repressed feelings. From the utmost softness to the destructive strength, we can use the expression : “All-in-One”. Each face reflects our own inner image, and makes us react at different levels of our personality.

Geneva, return to the basics
After several private exhibitions, Gérald Hach first shows his works to the public. Naturally, he has chosen Geneva, the town where he was born, for this event that he shares with Amedée Chatriand, a painter from Lausanne.
During a fascinating journey in the universe of the emotions, every visitor will have his own inner world as a reference point. It is why Gérald Hach does not name his sculptures. In this way, he allows everybody to have a quite individual freedom of the interpretation: “As soon as the sculpture is shaped, it quite no longer belongs to me, but it is everyone’s who look at it. When a person tells me what she feels as she is looking at my sculptures what they create in herself, it is the most beautiful of my presents. Even if, it is the quite opposite of my own feelings when I was shaping them.”