Agenda

The French artist Guillaume Bruère (1976) shows his portraits and sculptures in the castle of Tarasp (Schloss Tarasp). The focus of the exhibition (What Trembles and Almost Dances) is on the ‘Memory-Drawings’ that he has been making since 2016. Bruère does not paint intimacy, but concentrates on the process and presents the development to the viewer. The portraits sometimes show several faces. The clay sculptures with the same theme further enhance the effect of the portraits.

Alongside her work as a photojournalist, Monique Jacot (1934) has been using the technique of Polaroid transfers to paper since the 1980s. These poetic images, seemingly captured from a dream, blend superimposed and duplicated motifs in delicate and vibrant variations of colour. Her research pushes her towards an aesthetic of contemplation, detail and matter. The heliograms are monochrome explorations of feather and nest motifs picked up at random on her travels. The manifestation of an introspective gaze that marries aesthetic elegance with existential reflection are the outcome of experiments that are part photogram and part heliogravure.

Two exhibitions took place in the Städtische Galerie zum Strauhof in Zurich in 1975 and 1980: “Frauen sehen Frauen” and “Saus und Braus”. Original works, archive material and film footage follow the impulses that set Zurich in motion culturally around 1980. The exhibition shows how and by whom such a cultural break with the past was possible. Women played a leading role in this cultural revolution.