This section contains an overview of the most relevant exhibitions in Switzerland and neighbouring regions. Each item is connected to the organizing museum.
In his cinematographic art, Jean Lecoultre (1930) shows the violence of the cities.
In the face of this observation, his tools, pencil and brush, and his art show vulnerability, which reinforce the effect of his observations.
The exhibition presents lithographs, aquatints and varnishes from the Fondation William Cuendet & Atelier de Saint-Prex as well as recent drawings and paintings by the artist.
The exhibition (Moment. Monument. Aspects of contemporary sculpture) presents positions of sculpture by around 20 artists in the field of tension between duration and transience.
A monument is a man-made building or work of art. In a narrower sense, monument also means a memorial or memorial and reminds us of a historical personality or a historical event.
However, the monument always claims meaning and validity. Monument comes from the Latin verb ´monere´ to remember.
Sculpture today takes up the formal possibilities of the past, but redefines them for the present in terms of content.
Today it is less about a cultural and social revolution, about overcoming an artistic canon, but rather about redefining it in terms of content and material.
Artistic approaches no longer have to assert themselves as a radical break with tradition, but rather build on the past, combine it with the experiences of today and create works that are carried by their own sensibility.
The Fondation’s collection is connected to Olafur Eliasson’s Life exhibition and explores the relationship between nature and culture in art through selected modern and contemporary art works depicting the human, animal and vegetal realms. Landscapes, still lifes and portraits uncover a dense web of relationships with the environment.
The exhibition brings together more than 100 works from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, including masterpieces and major groups of works by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Ferdinand Hodler, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Rothko, Sigmar Polke, Roni Horn, Peter Doig, Philippe Parreno, Tacita Dean and Wolfgang Tillmans as well as rarely displayed works and recent acquisitions. Using a vast range of media – painting, sculpture, photography, drawing and multimedia installations – the works on display chart the full scope and complexity of the relationship between nature and culture.