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…
The Deserted Sandrine Pelletier graduated in stage design from the Centre d’enseignement professionnel in Vevey in 1999 and in graphic design at the École cantonale d’art in Lausanne in 2002. Her first works were drawings, textile art,…
Eichhörnchenkäfig (Squirrel cage) Maria Eichhorn is a Berlin-based conceptual artist whose work incorporates social, economic, environmental and political aspects and who brings a critical gaze to bear on the art world and the values it embodies. Eichhörnchenkäfig, produced…
Untitled Denis Savary initially became interested in video and drawing for their ‘practical and transportable’ side, as he explained in a 2016 interview. In the early 2000s, he began to develop an oeuvre in the two…
Das Bild im Boden (The Picture in the Floor) Das Bild im Boden is a series of over one hundred works produced between 1986 and 2015 as part of the Archives du futur project, begun in 1975 by the husband-and-wife team Chérif and Silvie…
Zénith Silvie and Chérif Defraoui began working together in 1975 on the long-term project Archives du futur, involving a range of techniques including installations, videos, and photography, among others. After Chérif’s death in 1994, Silvie Defraoui…
Conjunction XII Lynn Chadwick was a self-taught sculptor. The influence of his architecture studies before World War Two is clear in his early works, reflecting an interest in how shapes balance and integrate space. His later sculptures…