Agenda

The museum presents the artist Joann Sfar (1971) in a large-scale overview exhibition with over 200 original drawings, watercolours, paintings and film clips, while focusing on his latest works. Today, his oeuvre includes over 160 publications in the French-speaking world alone. His books revolve around Judaism, touch on issues pertaining to spirituality, faith and philosophy, respond to political and societal events, or address love, sexuality and his own life. The series “The Rabbi’s Cat”, which began in 2001, currently encompasses eight volumes and is keenly followed by hundreds of thousands of readers.

The National Museum in Zurich presents a new permanent exhibition on the history of Switzerland. The exhibition focuses on the development from a loose confederation of 13 cantons in 1501 to a federation of 22 cantons in 1848 and in the 20st century.The exhibition is an interactive journey through these centuries. The exhibition is organised chronologically and starts with the 15th century and end with an open discussion about the future of the 21st century. (Further information: www.nationalmuseum.ch).

 

When Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered Cubism in the early years of the twentieth century, they set off a revolution in visual art. The new style’s fragmented forms signal a fundamental change in how painting relates to the visible world. The Cubists rank as one of the most influential movements in art history; their works are adventures for the eyes even today, challenging our habits of perception.  The show traces Cubism’s evolution from 1908 to the years after World War I, surveying its enormous stylistic range and highlighting the revolutionary energy it imparted to later tendencies in twentieth-century art. Combining chronology with thematic foci, the exhibition opens with a section that throws the growing influence of folk art and archaic sculpture as well as Paul Cézanne’s oeuvre in Picasso’s and Braque’s paintings into relief.