Agenda

Henry Brandt (1921-1998) was a self-taught exponent of the cinematic and photographic arts. Together with Alain Tanner and Claude Goretta in particular, he was one of the co-founders of the Swiss Filmmakers Association (ARF/FDS) in 1962.

He produced a large number of films during an active professional career that spanned some 35 years. His documentaries for the Swiss National Exposition in Lausanne in 1964 made a lasting impression on an entire generation of visitors and filmmakers.

Various events in other cities underline the quality of his work and his ability to grasp the major issues of the society of his time: education, ageing, pollution, nature, the consumer society, the Cold War and arms race and the contrast between poor and rich countries. Themes that are still relevant today.

(Further information: www.henrybrandt.ch).

The retrospective of Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) offers a new perspective on the work of this pioneer of “Art Brut”.

Although he paradoxically rejected the established art culture, movements and techniques, his work occupies an essential place in the artistic landscape of the second half of the 20th century.

The diversity of this exhibition testifies to his inexhaustible creativity. With more than ten thousand works included in the catalogue raisonné, Jean Dubuffet’s polymorphic work covers six decades of the 20th century.

The exhibition shows his most famous paintings and works on paper (drawings and gouaches).

Lill Tschudi (1911–2004), born in Glarus (Switzerland), left for London in 1929 to study at The Grosvenor School of Modern Art. In the 1930s and 1940s, she achieved widespread recognition throughout the English-speaking world. The Metropolitan Museum in New York holds a substantial collection of 118 prints. In her Swiss homeland, however, she has been all but forgotten. The exhibition presents her most iconic works.

She covered a wide range of subjects with a flash of unparalleled technical brilliance, from sport, jazz and vibrant city life to contemplative scenes of rural Switzerland and even impressions of the Women’s Auxiliary Service (FHD) during the war. She also studied in Paris Advertising and Commercials and was inspired by Fernand Léger (1881–1955). This influence also characterizes her later works as an illustrator of magazines.