Expositions
What to see in French -speaking Switzerland this summer? My five proposals
There is as always a lot, and probably even too much. This is what seems to me to detach between Geneva and Valais at the moment.
“The stained glass of climbing”. He is today in the retrospective of Ariana, who fits on her end.
Mah, Geneva 2025,
Of everything. Everywhere. And in addition all the time. It is like every year embarrassment of choice with exhibitions this summer in Switzerland. Museums must recall their existence with more or less long and spectacular demonstrations. It is necessary to the public to make choices, without having to regret each time thereafter to have made the bad. I give you mine here, with the precautions for use. These are the reflections of personal tastes. I have of course not seen the entirety of what is going on in the country. I am not aware of everything. Federalism and the multiplication of languages do not help communication, which has always become more local. It has been many years that I have not seen posters in Geneva announcing Ticino demonstrations in Geneva. These would logically turn today towards Milan. With that, let’s go! There will be both texts. One for French -speaking Switzerland. The other for the German cantons. “Mirror, mirror, tell me who is the most beautiful”, as the nasty queen said of “sleeping beauty”.
“After the darkness” a Geneve
The Geneva motto serves as a hook for the presentation of the Viana stained glass windows. The Glass and Ceramics Museum has some 400. They have been studied for years under the direction of Stanislas Anthonioz. The pieces range from 12th century to 2007, with some very beautiful medieval canopies, two of which come from Notre-Dame de Paris. The current presentation offers approximately half of this heritage fund in a simple setting highlighting the works retained in value. Today it goes inexorably to its end. There will remain the very important catalog (until November 2, site https://musee-ariana.ch)
“Breathe once in two” in Lausanne
Born in 1957 in Vevey, Alain Huck is now one of the stars of contemporary Swiss art. The Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts of its place of origin owed it a tribute. This is tightened on a single floor of the MBCA. Commissioner Nicole Schweizer decided to present the work of man in all facets, hence a certain engorgement. The designer naturally convinces without problem. It is one of the most gifted of its generation. The same is not the same in my opinion for the videographer or the man of the “Arte Povera” type installations (until September 7, site https://mcba.ch)
Alain Huck between two of his immense drawings at the MCBA.
24 hours.
“From Rembrandt to Van Gogh” in Martigny
Before dying, Léonard Gianadda had had time to start several exhibitions for his foundation. The man thus convinced the managers of the Hammer museum in Los Angeles to send their best paintings to Europe once finally. A set constituted by one of these “tycoons” as only the USA seem to know. Armand Hammer (1898-1990) had made a fortune by trading with the USSR, after having settled on the spot in the 1920s. Among the forty works presented, I will quote the famous “Juno” of Rembrandt (until November 2, site https://gianadda.ch)
“Reflections and transparency” in Nyon
How to expose the glass and photograph it? The castle plays here on transparency. The subject matters here, however, little. Vincent Lieber, director of the institution, brings together the works by affinities. He makes them dialogue. The eras and materials can thus mix. Only the general printing counts, which results from the staging. There are glasses of Saint-Prex from the 1930s and 1940s. Others, brand new, from Valérie de Roquemaurel. Vitor, also current, of Sandra Piretti. More of course photographs… and the view of the lake from the windows of the windows (until November 30, site https://chateaudenyon.ch)
One of the rooms showing the collection of Thierry Barbier-Mueller.
Julien Grimaud, Jenisch museum, Vevey 2025.
“A conversation without words” in Vevey
After the design chairs shown in 2022 at the MCBA in Lausanne, here is another part of the Genevois collection Thierry Barbier-Mueller, died at 63 years in 2023. This is a small part of the works on contemporary paper collected by the promoter of Genevans. There is a Swiss side, with Silvia Bächli, Markus Raetz and Franz Gertsch. And another, resolutely international, where we find both Nan Goldin as Jannis Kounellis or Antony Gormley. The decor, with a few royal blue walls, highlights this set that has so far remained unprecedented (until October 26, site https://museejenisch.ch
The rest with German -speaking Switzerland and soon. Unfortunately there will be nothing for the Italian part of the country.
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