Expo Dennis Nona, Art aborigène d'Australie à Môtiers, Suisse

Waii. L’oeuvre gravée de Dennis Nona, Iles du Détroit de Torres, Australie 

Musée d’art aborigène australien La grange, Môtiers, NE, Suisse 

3 juin - 28 octobre 2012

La Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture expose au sein de son musée d’art aborigène australien « La grange » à Môtiers, pour la première fois en Suisse, l’oeuvre de DENNIS NONA, artiste aborigène, né en 1973, originaire des Iles du Détroit de Torres en Australie et internationalement reconnu pour son art. Plus de 50 eau-fortes et linogravures sont exposées dans le musée "La grange". 

Dennis Nona

DENNIS NONA, Gauatau Ural, eau-forte, 2007, planche 93 x 80 cm

Collection Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Môtiers, Suisse

(c) Dennis Nona / AAPN - www.artsdaustralie.com

Depuis son ouverture en 2008, « La grange », musée d’art aborigène australien, unique en Suisse, a présenté deux expositions. La première, Treasures of the Spirit, avait pour vocation d’introduire les visiteurs à la conception spirituelle des peuples aborigènes. La seconde, Visions aborigènes, voulait souligner, ainsi que son nom le suggère, la façon particulière qu’ont les aborigènes de percevoir leur environnement, tout en mettant l’accent sur la diversité des cultures aborigènes australiennes.

Dennis Nona

DENNIS NONA, Guthath Au Ulakalal, 2005

Linogravure coloriée à la main, éd.32/45, 53 x 45 cm 

Collection Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Môtiers, Suisse

(c) Dennis Nona / AAPN - www.artsdaustralie.com

Cette année, le musée présente une exposition monographique d’un artiste dont l’oeuvre et la culture d’origine (Iles du Détroit de Torres) sont à la croisée de deux mondes : l’Australie et la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée. A travers le compositions de Dennis NONA, le visiteur est emporté dans le monde exotique des îles du Détroit de Torres. Ses oeuvres permettent de connaître et de comprendre l’histoire ancestrale de son peuple, ses légendes, son environnement végétal, minéral et animal.

Dennis Nona

DENNIS NONA, Mamoose, eau-forte, éd. 22/45, 96 x 49 cm, 2005

Collection Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Môtiers, Suisse

(c) Dennis Nona / AAPN - www.artsdaustralie.com

L’exposition Waii, L’oeuvre gravé de Dennis NONA souhaite livrer une image plus nuancée de l’Australie en présentant au public un artiste exceptionnel des lointaines Iles du Détroit de Torres, dans l’extrême nord de l’Australie. Graveur accompli et récompensé pour son art en Australie à de nombreuses reprises, Dennis NONA traduit les anciennes légendes de ses îles pour les raconter dans un style graphique aux techniques innovantes. Ses oeuvres représentent un parfait mariage entre tradition et interprétation contemporaine. Plus récemment, sa vision particulière et son talent de graveur extraordinaire ont aussi trouvé leur expression dans la sculpture qui est reçue par les amateurs avec autant d’enthousiasme que son oeuvre gravée. 

Pour rendre hommage à ses anciens et en particulier à Waii, guerrier légendaire de l’Ile de Badu, Dennis Nona a souhaité baptiser cette exposition Waii. C’est aussi un mot employé pour désigner la présence des créatures marines dans les récifs de son Ile au gré du flux et du reflux des marrées. Il y voit un parallèle avec ses oeuvres qui parcourent de longues distances dans le cadre d’expositions internationales pour revenir finalement à leur point d’origine en Australie.

Dennis Nona

DENNIS NONA, Mutura Goiga, eau-forte, éd. 3/45, 42 x 39 cm, 2007

Collection Arts d'Australie - Stéphane Jacob 

(c) Dennis Nona / AAPN - www.artsdaustralie.com

Considéré comme l’un des meilleurs représentants de l’estampe et de la sculpture australienne, Dennis Nona a reçu pour son œuvre en Australie plusieurs distinctions et prix. Ses oeuvres se trouvent dans les grands musées australiens ainsi que dans d’importantes collections internationales. En 2011, deux expositions ont été consacrées à l’artiste à Paris et à Rochefort.

L'exposition est ouverte les vendredi, samedi, dimanche, de 12h00 à 18h00 ou sur réservation d'une visite guidée dès 8 personnes (se reporter à la rubrique "information" du site internet de la Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture).

Musée d’art aborigène australien « La grange »

Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture

Château d’Ivernois

CH-2112 Môtiers - Val-de-Travers - Neuchatel - Suisse 

www.fondation-bf.ch

On Horizons, Photo Museum Winterthur - Set 8 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur

On Horizons - Set 8 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Curator: Thomas Seelig
Through May 20, 2012 

The photographic gaze into the horizon is a mirror for internal and external states and produces artistic interpretations and commentaries. As in other artistic genres, landscape in photography is interpreted through political and private gazes and the results go far beyond purely aesthetic experiences. Assembled from the collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, this exhibition shows how photographers since the mid-1960s have approached their imagery from a range of analytical and emotional standpoints.  

 

 Garry Winogrand
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1958
Silbergelatine-Abzug, 21,5 x 32 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
© Estate of Garry Winogrand / Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1958. This amazing photograph by Garry Winogrand is part of the exhibition organized by the Swiss museum dedicaced to the photography in Winterthur, near Zurich.

Also on view, 1970s B&W and color photographs by renowed photographers Luigi Ghirri, Shomei Tomatsu, Guido Guidi and Robert Häusser.

Luigi Ghirri
Salisburgo (Salzburg), 1977
C-Print, 23,8 x 35,5 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
© Estate of Luigi Ghirri

This photograph by Luigi Ghirri is from “Diaframma 11, 1/125 luce naturale” Aperture 11, 1/125 second shutter speed with natural day light. The exhibition also features Luigi Ghirri’s pictures from “Kodakrome” (1973).

Shomei Tomatsu
Japan World Exposition, Osaka, 1970
C-Print, 20,5 x 29,7 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
Acquired with funds from Canon (Schweiz) AG
© Shomei Tomatsu

Guido Guidi
Fosso Ghiaia, 1972
Silbergelatine-Abzug, 17,3 x 17,3 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, Schenkung Thomas Koerfer
© Guido Guidi

Robert Häusser
Relative Orientierungen, Relative orientations, 1972
Gelatin-silver print, 41 x 57 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, Gift of Robert Häusser
© Robert Häusser / FIP / Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum

Exploring unknown locations provides the creative impulse for works by three Swiss photographers Balthasar Burkhard, Reto Camenisch, and Jan Jedlicka, who express their visions in monumental individual images or in series of small-scale works.

Balthasar Burkhard
Chlönthal, 2002
Triptych Gelatin-silver prints, 244 x 306 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, Gift of Volkart Foundation
© Estate of Balthasar Burkhard

Lewis Baltz is a participant of the famous exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, which in 1975 first addressed the man-created interface between civilization and nature.

Lewis Baltz
Aus: Continuous Fire Polar Circle, 1986
Gelatin-silver print, 20,2 x 25,4 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, Dauerleihgabe Lewis Baltz
© Lewis Baltz

 

Time for looking and contemplation is the central element of Himmel [Heaven], an eighty-one image slide show by weather phenomenologist Andreas Züst. Accordingly, it shares a close bond with the hi-gloss digital video Highlights II by Dominik Hodel as well as the publication LA AIR by Bruce Nauman, which presents sunsets over Los Angeles juxtaposed with minimalist color studies.

Andreas Züst
From: Sky, 1990-2000
Slide show in 81 parts
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
© Estate of Andreas Züst

 Dominik Hodel
Headlights II, 2010
Full-HD Videoloop 2.45 min.
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
© Dominik Hodel

When Christian Schwager photographs almost innocent-looking meadows and forests in Bosnia some ten years after the civil war, the unhealed wounds, the hidden signs of violence, disturb us. Pictures of landscapes are never neutral, the exacting gaze of the photographs anchor them in a particular zeitgeist and open up additional levels of meaning.

When Robert Frank seeks visual answers to elementary questions of life in the sparse surroundings of his house in Nova Scotia (Canada), circling about his direct environment again and again, landscape becomes a projection screen for yearnings and remembrances.

 Robert Frank
For Andrea 1954-1974, Mabou, 1975
Gelatin-silver print, 49,6 x 39,8 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, Gift of George Reinhart
© Robert Frank

Also on view a triptych by the landscape photographer Axel Hütte. His last book, Towards the Woods, was published in september 2010 by Schirmer/Mosel (in english).

 Axel Hütte
Furka, Schweiz, 1995
2 C-Prints, each 205 x 162 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
© Axel Hütte

 

With works by the following artists : Caroline Bachmann / Stefan Banz, Lewis Baltz, Balthasar Burkhard, Reto Camenisch, Gintaras Didziapetris, Dick Duyves, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Thomas Flechtner, Robert Frank, Dunja Evers, Luigi Ghirri, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Robert Häusser, Dominik Hodel, Roni Horn, Axel Hütte, Jan Jedlicka, Claudio Moser, Bruce Nauman, Igor Savchenko, Christian Schwager, Yoshiko Seino, Shomei Tomatsu, Garry Winogrand, and Andreas Züst.

The exhibition is organized by THOMAS SEELIG, curator of the collection at Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Accompanying the exhibition is, as part of the series of publications on the collection of the Photography Museum Winterthur, a collection brochure with works of the exhibition: On Horizons – Set 8 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, THOMAS SEELIG (ed.), Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, 2011, 32 pages, numerous color and b/w illustrations, softbound, 24,6 x 20 cm, German / English. With an essay by CHRISTOPH RIBBAT, and texts to the artists. On the cover of the brochure is a detail of the photogaph by Luigi Ghirri taken in Salzburg in 1977.

Alpi – a Film by Armin Linke
Film screening on September 28, 2011 with an introduction by Armin Linke, in conjunction with the exhibition On Horizons. The film Alpi is the result of seven years of research into how the landscapes of the Alps—spanning the borders of eight nations and four languages—are perceived and used. In the film the Alps are portrayed as an island that is subjected to numerous global transformations. The complexity of social, economic, and political relationships within the context of landscape are easily visualized by this centralized and fragile region. The screening has been concluded by a public discussion with Thomas Seelig and Armin Linke. ARMIN LINKE (b. 1966) is an artist who works with photography and film. He lives in Milan and Berlin.

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland / Suisse
Photography Museum - Musée de la photographie
CH-8400 Winterthur (Zurich)
www.fotomuseum.ch

Nobuyoshi Araki, Love and Death at Museo d’Arte Lugano

Araki, Love and Death 
Museo d’Arte Lugano
October 23 - February 20, 2010

© NOBUYOSHI ARAKI, A’s Lovers, s.d.
Courtesy the artist and Yoshiko Isshiki Office, Tokyo

 

NOBUYOSHI ARAKI ranks today as one of the most well-known and celebrated artist photographers in the world with more than four hundred publications to his name. Despite his great celebrity, Araki Love and Death is one of only a very few retrospectives dedicated to him in Europe. 

Nobuyoshi Araki's photography expresses and updates many of the themes most closely connected to Japanese culture. The Lugano exhibition bears witness to the artist's work in its many varied expressions: in addition to the autobiographical series – including Sentimental Journey/Winter Journey, which documents the relationship between the artist and his wife Yoko from the day of their marriage till the tragic illness and premature death of Yoko in 1990– urban landscapes, the suggestive images of flowers and food, the poetic series dedicated to the sky and, of course, the series of female nudes and bondage which are, more than any other of his subjects, so clearly linked to his renown. 

From this short list of subjects it is clear just how much Araki's work expresses Japanese culture, in the exaltation of the changing of the seasons, the ephemeral beauty of flowers, and of feminine sensuality. The artist's work is not limited to a simple registration of these subjects, but they make evident and almost tangible, even to a Western audience, the perturbing character that they have in Japanese culture. 

The exhibition mirrors Araki's urgency to capture the continuous transformation of reality, through a continuous photographic documentation. The display features nearly two thousand medium and large format pictures alongside an impressive installation of three thousand Polaroids taken by the artist over the years are presented in a highly dense, mosaic format. The audience is both overwhelmed and disoriented by the visual impact created not only by the single shots, but by the greater whole of the images. 

Finally, and perhaps what makes the Lugano exhibition unique, is the showing of his latest works, including the series dedicated to his beloved cat Chiro and a series of large format photographs over which the artist intervenes with calligraphy, paint and collage which is presented here to the public for the first time.

Museo d'Arte Lugano
Villa Malpensa
Riva Caccia 5
CH-6900 Lugano

www.mdam.ch