A landscape that exists only in its folding. In Falt-Landschaft, Swiss artist Urs Hanselmann turns a single sheet of kraft paper into terrain: folded into a grid, opened again, and covered in dense diagonal strokes of black, like rain moving across a field.
The folds remain visible as a quiet architecture beneath the drawing. Paper becomes ground, line becomes weather, and the act of unfolding becomes part of the work. Small metal eyelets at the corners hold the sheet like a map pinned to a wall.
Created in the early 1970s, the edition reflects Hanselmann's playful and conceptual approach to landscape, material and measure. The work comes with its original grey card folder, closed with red and white string, bearing a typed text that turns folding into a game of words, and numbered by hand 71/142.
The work will be exhibited in What Remains, an exhibition curated by Valeria Viollaz at The mep, Lucerne, from 7 November to 2 December 2026.
Artist: Urs Hanselmann, b. 1944, Trimbach, Switzerland
Technique: Folded kraft paper, black pigment, metal eyelets
Edition: 71/142, numbered by hand, with original folder
Measurements: Work 62 × 45 cm · Frame 82 × 63 cm
Year: c. 1974
Framing: Natural wood frame with passe-partout
Condition: Please enquire
Exhibited: What Remains · The mep, Lucerne · 7 November – 2 December 2026
About the Artist
Urs Hanselmann (b. 1944, Trimbach) is a Swiss painter and sculptor. He trained at the Kunstgewerbeschulen of Basel, Lucerne and Biel, studying under Max von Moos, and taught at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich from 1977. He exhibited at Art Basel from 1972 to 1989, at the Biennale der Schweizer Kunst, and in Konkrete Kunst International at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen. His work is held in the collections of the Kunstmuseum Olten, the Kunsthaus Grenchen and the Canton of Solothurn, and in 2002 he received the Canton of Solothurn Prize for sculpture.
A landscape that exists only in its folding. In Falt-Landschaft, Swiss artist Urs Hanselmann turns a single sheet of kraft paper into terrain: folded into a grid, opened again, and covered in dense diagonal strokes of black, like rain moving across a field.
The folds remain visible as a quiet architecture beneath the drawing. Paper becomes ground, line becomes weather, and the act of unfolding becomes part of the work. Small metal eyelets at the corners hold the sheet like a map pinned to a wall.
Created in the early 1970s, the edition reflects Hanselmann's playful and conceptual approach to landscape, material and measure. The work comes with its original grey card folder, closed with red and white string, bearing a typed text that turns folding into a game of words, and numbered by hand 71/142.
The work will be exhibited in What Remains, an exhibition curated by Valeria Viollaz at The mep, Lucerne, from 7 November to 2 December 2026.
Artist: Urs Hanselmann, b. 1944, Trimbach, Switzerland
Technique: Folded kraft paper, black pigment, metal eyelets
Edition: 71/142, numbered by hand, with original folder
Measurements: Work 62 × 45 cm · Frame 82 × 63 cm
Year: c. 1974
Framing: Natural wood frame with passe-partout
Condition: Please enquire
Exhibited: What Remains · The mep, Lucerne · 7 November – 2 December 2026
About the Artist
Urs Hanselmann (b. 1944, Trimbach) is a Swiss painter and sculptor. He trained at the Kunstgewerbeschulen of Basel, Lucerne and Biel, studying under Max von Moos, and taught at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich from 1977. He exhibited at Art Basel from 1972 to 1989, at the Biennale der Schweizer Kunst, and in Konkrete Kunst International at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen. His work is held in the collections of the Kunstmuseum Olten, the Kunsthaus Grenchen and the Canton of Solothurn, and in 2002 he received the Canton of Solothurn Prize for sculpture.
