Category Archive: Museums

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16 Sep

Key to understanding Andy Warhol on view in Basel

The 70 paintings and drawings by Andy Warhol on view at Kunstmuseum Basel cover a pivotal period in the development of an artist best remembered for his flaming silk-screened prints of American icons. But the Basel expo, covering years 1961 to 1964, aims to show – with works that “can set your mind on fire” – that Warhol was much more than just a Pop designer .
September 16, 2010 at 19:28 Leave a Reply
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30 Jun

Hermitage opens new window on Edward Hopper

American painter Edward Hopper – whose spellbinding scenes of nighthawks, usherettes and New England house fronts have become emblematic – is the subject of a key exhibition at the Hermitage Foundation in Lausanne. Drawings, water colours and engravings are presented alongside several familiar paintings, offering a rare insight into an artist who used his paint brush as a camera for the invisible.

June 30, 2010 at 21:17 Leave a Reply
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21 Jun

Nicolas de Staël exhibition brightens up Gianadda

A selection of some of Nicolas de Staël’s finest paintings appears on show at the Gianadda Foundation in Martigny. The exhibition retraces the artist’s steps between abstract and figurative art from 1945 to 1955 just before he took his life at the age of 41. It includes de Stael’s famous football scenes, giving the expo an arresting topicality and adding to its powerful brilliance at a venue not noted for its versatility.
June 21, 2010 at 21:14 2 Replies
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16 Jun

US artist Matthew Barney disturbs and dazzles in Basel

American artist Matthew Barney opens a groundbreaking exhibition at the mythical Schaulager in Basel. Barney’s fame as a brilliant and bizarre artist is confirmed in the collection jointly acquired by New York Museum of Modern Art and Schaulager that forms the crux of the exhibition. Renaissance masterpieces as well as two new pieces by Barney complete the show.
June 16, 2010 at 15:06 Leave a Reply
Zentrum
07 Jun

‘Klee meets Picasso’ in major Bern expo

To mark its fifth anniversary, the Paul Klee Centre in Bern inaugurates a landmark exhibition featuring more than 180 works by Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee. Presented side by side in a display that explores a complex artistic relationship that was to have a profound impact on the course of art history, the show documents the rivalry of the two artists, but reveals striking similarities in a number of telling ways.
June 7, 2010 at 14:00 Leave a Reply
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01 Jun

Museum receives major works as confidence mounts for new home

Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), Glion, Vue sur le lac Léman, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Vaud The ill-fated project to move Vaud fine arts museum out of its present premises may…
June 1, 2010 at 15:13 Leave a Reply
Pastori
18 May

Chillon Castle captures Byron legacy

Château de Chillon near Montreux on Lake Geneva has been a source of intense literary inspiration to British and American writers over the last centuries, ever since Lord Byron wrote his epic ‘Prisoner of Chillon’. A just-published anthology reveals how a fortress that has become Switzerland’s most visited monument may owe its world-wide celebrity more to literature than history.

May 18, 2010 at 08:49 Leave a Reply
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15 Apr

Lovemaking as video art by Emmanuelle Antille

Emmanuelle Antille, one of Switzerland’s best known contemporary artists, here and abroad, fills the charming Pully Museum near Lausanne with her visions of the rawness of life at the borderline of beauty, where she turns even intercourse into art. Her exhibition is the talk of the town and runs until May 16.
April 15, 2010 at 16:07 Leave a Reply
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23 Mar

Pre-Raphaelite Burne-Jones in major Bern expo

Edward Burne-Jones, the British pre-Raphaelite painter of intensely romantic allegories is the subject of a major exhibition at the Kunstmuseum in Bern. The 100 works that have been united, some for the first time, offer the portrait of an artist little known outside of the UK, but whose quixotic imagination and luscious artistry are said by some to rival the greatest.

March 23, 2010 at 10:36 Leave a Reply
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08 Mar

Vigorous campaign to save Polaroid, including art collection

“Polaroid in peril” is an exhibition to alert public opinion to the possible dismantling of a major Polaroid photo art collection, part of which is housed at the Lausanne Elysée museum. It coincides with efforts by diehards to save a technology imperilled by digital photography and cut-throat investors. The Polaroids on show at the Elysée are a reminder of the naked power and beauty of images that digital adjustments cannot touch.
March 8, 2010 at 10:04 1 Reply
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