From the outset of her career, Swiss artist Ladina Gaudenz, born in 1962, has been dealing with the close yet fragile relationships between mankind and nature, the environment, and technology. She explores facets and states of these relationships via convincing creative means, resulting in sensual, densely atmospheric paintings, while the boundaries between individual memory, references to tradition, and social commitment remain fluid. This bilingual French-German book is the first comprehensive survey of Ladina Gaudenzs work of more than three decades. While painting is at its core, she has also created drawings, murals, and installations. Five essays by Françoise Jaunin, writer and art critic, Rainer Michael Mason, scholar of art history, Seraina Peer, art historian and researcher, Karine Tissot, art historian and educator, and the books editor Beat Stutzer discuss the evolution of Gaudenzs artistic themes, the techniques she employs, her public displays, and the reception of her oeuvre as a whole, placing it in the context of contemporary Swiss art.

Françoise Jaunin lebt und arbeitet als Kunstkritikerin, Kulturjournalistin und Autorin in Lausanne. Rainer Michael Mason lebt und arbeitet in Genf als Kunsthistoriker und Spezialist für Druckgrafik. Seraina Peer ist Kunsthistorikerin mit Spezialisierung in Curatorial Studies und Museologie. Beat Stutzer führt in Luzern das Büro K&K - Kunst und Kommunikation und ist als freischaffender Autor und Kurator tätig. Karine Tissot ist Kunsthistorikerin und leitet die kulturellen Aktivitäten des Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois CHUV in Lausanne.