Reflections on Painting #3 (Jane Goodall) Yoan Mudry graduated from the Haute école d’art et de design, Geneva, in 2014. Since then, he has been developing a theory of image saturation, excess information, and the multiplication of narrative inputs that run…
Ein Freund (A Friend) Jean-Frédéric Schnyder represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 1993, exhibiting a series of 119 small-format oil paintings of views from motorway bridges (Wanderung, 1991-1992). The title of each work was the ID number of…
Untitled Francis Baudevin creates paintings, wall paintings, and prints following a process he settled on in 1987. He seeks out abstract forms in the visual realm that surrounds us, in packaging, logos, album sleeves, and the…
Portrait de Jean-Louis Barrault (Portrait of Jean-Louis Barrault) In 1940, André Gide sat down to re-read Kafka’s 1925 novel The Trial, recounting the arrest of Josef K., a bank clerk caught up in a legal nightmare and sentenced for a crime that is…
Ubu roi René Auberjonois moved to Paris in October 1896. There, he may have attended the premier of Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi, performed by the Théâtre de l’Œuvre troupe on December 10 that same year. The…
Untitled Jean Otth studied Fine Art in Lausanne from 1961 to 1963. He then devoted his early career to painting, experimenting widely with form, seeking particularly to put a new spin on classic techniques and media.
La luz (Light) Jorge Macchi’s artworks use a variety of media and strategies to play with the viewer’s perceptions. Flashes of light diffracted by a disco ball turn into slashes in the walls and ceiling (Still Song, 2005,…
Franz The early twenty-first century saw Denis Savary develop a body of work hybridising references gleaned from his immediate surroundings, art history, and pop culture. The form and materiality of his sculptures gesture to fragmentary narratives…
Pause Alain Huck explored a number of creative paths before settling on drawing in the early 1990s, choosing the medium for the fragility it brought to images that were often deeply brutal in nature, echoing the…
Schiff Miriam Cahn completed a demanding graphic design course at the Basel Gewerbeschule from 1968 to 1973, finding freedom of expression in drawing with her eyes closed, straight on the ground or on large sheets of…