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Installation view, NOT I, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2026. Ph: GRAYSC
William Gaucher
Sparrow, 2025Oil on canvasSigned and dated verso97 x 120 cm
38.2 x 47.2 inchesB-WGAUCHER-.25-0001Further images
William Gaucher’s paintings gather layers of marks, tonal fields, and gestures into compositions that develop their own internal coherence. Each surface records a sequence of decisions, creating a visual sediment...William Gaucher’s paintings gather layers of marks, tonal fields, and gestures into compositions that develop their own internal coherence. Each surface records a sequence of decisions, creating a visual sediment in which earlier gestures remain perceptible beneath later adjustments. The works unfold with a deliberateness that reflects a close engagement with painting as a cumulative process.
The canvases operate as sites of recollection, where echoes of forms and colour relationships accrue gradually. Gaucher’s approach fosters a sense of atmospheric density without fixing the paintings to a single narrative or referent. They reward sustained attention, revealing how memory and intuition shape the evolution of their surfaces.
William Gaucher (b. 1993, Montreal) lives and works in Berlin. Gaucher received an MFA from HFBK, class of Jutta Koether, Hamburg in 2023. Solo exhibitions include Theta, New York (2026), CHB, Berlin (2025) and WMP, Hamburg (2023). Recent group exhibitions include Champ Lacombe, Biarritz; and Clovis Basement, Brussels (both 2025).
