“The Swiss artist Ficht Tanner, both a musician and an embroiderer, creates fascinating ballets of abstract and colorful forms, which he directly connects to music and sound – evoking, of course, Kandinsky and his exhibition at the Philharmonie, “The Music of Colors.”.
Maïlys Celeux-Lanval, Beaux-Arts, 04.11.2025
“The vivid, haunting abstract forms of the Swiss artist Ficht Tanner, patiently embroidered onto white canvases”.
Mathieu Champalaune, L’Officiel des spectacles, 08.10.2025
“The embroideries of the Swiss artist Ficht Tanner are a delight to the eye. Treasures of colorful forms reminiscent of the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky, his works are created by machine, guided by a free and spontaneous impulse. A double bass player, Appenzell folk and free-jazz musician, Ficht Tanner listens to the music resonating in his mind and translates it into marvelous embroideries. Flowers, cells, and biomorphic shapes dance before our eyes, spreading joy.”
Clémentine Mercier, Libération, 27-28.09.2025
“The forms of Ficht Tanner are born within his embroideries and, for him, are too vast to be contained within the limits of language. They elude any attempt at definition, leaving space instead for emotion and intuition. He appears as a true alchemist of forms and sounds — a creator whose singular, ever-evolving work transcends categories to open new paths of exploration and reverie.”
Camille Noé Marcoux, La Vie Quercynoise, 03.07.2025
“Ficht Tanner’s work is like a thread stretched between music and image, between improvisation and composition, between the intimate and the universal. For over fifty years, Ficht Tanner has been weaving an artistic language of rare intensity, in which embroidery becomes a musical score, drawing turns into melody, and the double bass engages in dialogue with color. An unclassifiable Swiss artist, rooted in the landscapes of his native Appenzell yet profoundly cosmopolitan, he forges a free path at the crossroads of Art Brut, Surrealism, and contemporary textile art”.
Contemporanéités dans l’art, 01.04.2025
“Ficht Tanner is one of those rare contemporary artists who have always managed to follow, in harmony, their paths of life and creation”.
Daniel Leutenegger, ch-cultura.ch, 02.05.2021
“Ficht Tanner expresses his joy in drawing with thread, emphasizing that he works like an illiterate person — with all his senses fully awakened. (…) His creative process structures itself naturally. Abstract forms harmonize and repeat like musical notes. (…) Exhibiting rarely but working tirelessly, Ficht Tanner is an extraordinary and unconventional contemporary artist.”
Monique Durussel, La Liberté (Fribourg), 11.10.2002
