Véronique Arnold @ Galerie Buchmann Lugano - Ivre de lumière

Véronique Arnold : Ivre de lumière 

Galerie Buchmann Lugano 

Jusqu'au 27 mai 2023 

La galerie Buchmann Lugano présente l'exposition de l'artiste française Véronique Arnold (Strasbourg, *1973). 

L'œuvre centrale de l'exposition est une grande installation murale composée de plus de cinquante boules de verre soufflé. Ce projet a été créé de l'observation du tableau d'Henri Matisse, Intérieur rouge, nature morte sur table bleue, 1947.

La toile de Matisse, concentre toute l’intensité de la lumière de l’été dans les pays méridionaux et c'est de cette vision que Véronique Arnold s'inspire pour créer des boules de verre aux couleurs vives, capables de transformer la lumière grise de cette saison en réverbérations colorées et joyeuses. C'est au cœur de l'hiver que l'artiste choisit de ressusciter la chaleur, la beauté et l'éclat des couleurs de l'été. Les boules ont été réalisées en collaboration avec le prestigieux Centre international d'art verrier de Meisenthal, dont la verrerie a été créée en 1704. La couleur rouge a été étudiée par l'artiste avec des maîtres verriers et obtenue en mélangeant du verre avec de la poudre de pigments pour obtenir un effet pictural similaire à celui du tableau de Matisse.

L'exposition sera complétée par un certain nombre de délicates peintures sur soie d'Yves Saint Laurent et sur coton, dans la même combinaison de couleurs et le même thème que la grande installation.

Véronique Arnold a récemment participé à l'exposition collective Venedigsche Sterne Kunst und Stickerei au *Bündner Kunstmuseum de Coire (2022). Elle a eu des expositions personnelles au *Musée Théodore Deck à Guebwiller, France (2021), à la Fondation *Ghisla Art Collection à Locarno (2020), au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse (2015); dans des expositions collectives à la Kunsthalle Centre D'Art Contemporain de Mulhouse (2020), à la *Fondation Fernet-Branca de Saint-Louis en Alsace (2015). Elle a collaboré avec Christine Ferber et Jean-Paul Hévin, au Salon du Chocolat de l'Isetan à Tokyo (2012) et a présenté son travail au Palazzo Salis, Soglio della Biblioteca Engiadinaisa, Sils Maria (2102), ainsi que de nombreuses expositions à la Buchmann Galerie de Lugano et à la Galleria Stampa à Bâle.

* Expositions avec catalogue.

BUCHMANN LUGANO

Via della Posta 2, 6900 Lugano

www.buchmanngalerie.com

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11-02 / 27.05.2023

Felice Varini @ Buchmann Gallery, Lugano

Felice Varini 

Buchmann Galerie, Lugano 

Through 31 December 2021

Buchmann Lugano presents new works by FELICE VARINI (Locarno *1952), internationally renowned artist from Ticino.

On display are large lacquered steel sculpture made for the occasion and a pictorial intervention in situ. The latter is displayed as it was conceived only from a certain point of view. The visitor is able to have unlimited decomposed and unforeseen versions of it simply by moving his gaze.

Felice Varini "invades" the space directly involving the spectator, called to trigger in first person the mechanisms of perspective and spatial deformation prepared by the artist.

Felice Varini's public works distinguish entire landscapes and architectures among them are: La Seine Musicale, Ile Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris (2020), Galeries la Fayette Mall, Shanghai (2019), Shanghai Yang Pu Waterfront (2019), Château et Remparts de la Cité de Carcassonne (2018), Yerevan Central Railway Station, Yerevan, Armenia (2017), Kunsthalle in Osnabrück (2017), MAMO, Cité Radieuse, Marseille (2016). In the space of MASI - Palazzo Reali there is one of his mural paintings. Three works made for the LAC parking garage in 2012 became the first acquisitions for the opening of the new cultural center of Lugano. A large pictorial intervention of his has been realized, moreover, in the headquarters of the Banca Stato del Canton Ticino in Bellinzona. The artist has already been collaborating with the Buchmann gallery for many years. In 2013 with the work Zig Zag of triangles for the pillar has inaugurated the space Buchmann Lugano.

BUCHMANN LUGANO

Via della Posta 2, CH-6900 Lugano

www.buchmanngalerie.com

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Martin Disler @ Buchmann Lugano

Martin Disler
Buchmann Lugano
Through 29 June 2019

The exhibition space Buchmann Lugano presents a solo show by the Swiss artist MARTIN DISLER (1949-1996). The gallery, since 2012 curates the Estate of Disler and presents on this occasion a selection of works on paper and pottery.

Born in 1949 in Seewen, Martin Disler began to exhibit in Switzerland and abroad since the 1970s. His first solo show at the Kunsthalle Basel in 1980 entitled Invasion durch eine falsche Sprache, marks a turning point in the artist's career. The same year he took part at the Venice Art Biennale, in 1982 at Documenta 7 in Kassel and in 1984 in a group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York gaining popularity internationally.

Martin Disler, self-taught artist, driven by an incessant and frenetic creativity, has investigated themes such as death and life, frequently represented in an almost obsessive way. A gestural painting, sometimes impulsive, others more controlled and soft, characterizes his entire work.

He lived in New York, Amsterdam, Milan, Zurich, Lugano and Les Planchettes. Disappeared at only 47 years old, he leaves behind a rich artistic production including: sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints, poems and writings, preserved today in his archive in Basel.

Recently Die Umgebung der Liebe created in 1981 for the Stuttgarter Kunstverein, and acquired in 2006 by the Gottfried Keller Stiftung,  was exhibited for the first time in its entirety at the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur (until 26 May 2019).

Tony Cragg's Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden has also recently opened a Disler’s exhibition of bronze sculptures by the Häutung und Tanz group, made in 1991/92 in the Besso atelier at that time and merged into the sub-foundries, (until 16 June 2019).

BUCHMANN LUGANO
Via della Posta 2, CH-6900 Lugano
www.buchmanngalerie.com

Véronique Arnold @ Buchmann Galerie, Lugano - Ou elles volent, ou elles tombent

Véronique Arnold  

Ou elles volent, ou elles tombent 
Buchmann Galerie, Lugano 
8 September 2018 - 26 January 2019 

The exhibition space Buchmann Lugano presents the artist Véronique Arnold (Strasbourg, *1973).

The exhibition presents new, unseen art works, realised specifically for this occasion. The central space of the Gallery in Lugano hosts a work which sits on the border between installation and sculpture. The artist started with gathering real leaves during her walks. She then dipped them in white porcelain and at a later stage, she carefully and meticulously applied extra layers of porcelain by hand. Until finally being baked in a specialized oven. The result of this slow, painted and delicate process was then laid, with particular calm and attention on a plinth expressly conceived for the city space. The leaf, symbol of fragility and lightness, recalls the transience of life, leads to a reflection of death and their profound meaning.

To complete the exhibition, on the walls: graphite drawings on canvas, which once again present leaves that seem to be moving, perhaps echoing the title of the exhibition.

In short, the work of Véronique Arnold gives intense emotions to its poetic strength, inserting natural elements into a broader and more complex metaphorical discourse, while maintaining a vocabulary that is coherent to the viewer. Fascinating works, whose genesis implies a repetitive gesture, almost a form of ritual, of which the artist takes charge and gives back to the community in a refined visual and emotional experience.

Véronique Arnold realised a personal exhibition at the gallery Stampa of Basel (2017), at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Mulhouse (2015), exhibited in a collective at the Fondation Fernet-Branca of Saint-Louis in Alsace (2015), she collaborated with Christine Ferber and Jean-Paul Hévin at the Salon du Chocolat of Isetan in Tokyo (2012) and presented her works at the Palazzo Salis, Soglio della Biblioteca Engiadinaisa, Sils Maria (2012).

In addition to this exhibition, you may find her works on paper a t the WOPART fair 2018 starting from the 20th to the 23rd of September presented in our stand B2 at the Centro Esposizioni of Lugano.

BUCHMANN LUGANO
Via della Posta 2, CH-6900 Lugano
www.buchmanngalerie.com

Japan’ Photography 1860-1910. An ineffable perfection, Villa Ciani, Lugano - Curated by Museo delle Culture (Castagnola)

Ineffable Perfection. Japan’s Photography. 1860-1910

Curated by Museo delle Culture (Castagnola)

Villa Ciani, Lugano

Through February 27, 2011

KUSAKABE KIMBEI

Woman washing her hair, 1880 ca.

Photo Courtesy of the Museo delle Culture, Castagnola

Villa Ciani plays host to Ineffable Perfection. Japan’s Photography Between 1860 and 1910. This is the largest temporary exhibition of its kind ever to be realised, worldwide. The themed path, the fruit of research carried out by the the team of the Museo delle Culture in Castagnola beginning in 2007, takes its audience on a journey of discovery into Japan's traditional image.

OGAWA KAZUMASA 

Craftsman who makes traditional Japanese sandals (geta), 1890 ca. 

Photo Courtesy of the Museo delle Culture, Castagnola   

Step by step, the visitor is introduced to a more mature vision of the encounter between Japan and the West. The principle themes focus on the representation of the landscape and nature as 'educated' by culture, the importance of photographic media in the definition of Japan's image, the taste for the exotic and the deep relationship between photography and the ukiyo-e  prints. The exhibition offers a profound analysis of the works and styles of the main Japanese and European photographers who were active in the period and features a surprising exploration of the historical and anthropological dynamics of 'travel to the East' and the 'aesthetic of the souvenir'. 

KUSAKABE KIMBEI (Studio)

Young woman reading in bed, 1880 ca.

Photo Courtesy of the Museo delle Culture, Castagnola

The photographic  albums displayed show finely lacquered and engraved covers which are, in themselves, an artistic genre of great interest. The exhibition path itself shows a particularly charming scenographic arrangement, which produces the sensation of walking through a Japanese garden. 

RAIMUND VON STILLFRIED-RATENITZ

Sumo wrestlers and referee, 1872

Photo Courtesy of the Museo delle Culture, Castagnola

The exhibition is completed by the presence of some fifty artworks and refined objects of material culture from prestigious private collections. Among these, magnificent samurai armour from the Fifteenth Century, a group of precious sculptures of religious character, a  highly refined selection of men’s and women’s clothes and a range of sixteen extraordinary Nō theatre-masks.

Villa Ciani
Parco Ciani, CH - 6900 Lugano

Ineffabile Perfezione. La fotografia del Giappone. 1860-1910.
October 23, 2010 - February 27, 2011

www.ineffabileperfezione.com