quarterly report 1/2012

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Cover by Boris Rebetez. Detail of his drawing “The Antagonist” 2011

Boris Rebetez has his first show in our gallery. “L’Espace d’Après ” can be seen in CHESA from February 17 until March 10, 2012. On this occasion
Reto Thüring interviewed with the artist.

Coming up in the GARAGE is Andrew Bick’s solo show in March-April 2012. British art curator David Thorp recently had a conversation with Andrew in the artist’s studio. They talked about Andrew’s involvement in the abstract movement in Britain and how his work has developed towards less materiality.

“Untimely Men” is the title of curator Jo Widoff’s article about the recent exhibition: Turner, Monet, Twombly . Later paintings in Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
This highly praised exhibition is now going to Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and ends in Tate Liverpool.

Star director John Logan succeeded a spell-bounding theater experience with his play “Rot” about Mark Rothko. Udo Badelt reports from Renaissance Theater, Berlin where two excellent actors played the parts of the artist and his young assistant.

“The Art of Swiss Cheese” praise the variety of cheese in our country. Sue Style, food, wine and travel writer spent a whole summer traveling and testing- and wrote a book.

Magnus Thierfelder’s one year studio visit in New York has passed and Stefan wanted to know how his work has been influenced. An E-mail conversation took place.

Christian Schaernack’s Market Rumours deals with a delicate case between French artist Patrick Cariou and Richard Prince !

Our first Art scene report from Africa has been written by Fiona Siegenthaler. She spent over a year in Johannesburg and gives her impressions on art in service of urban redevelopment.

Designer Hella Jongeris has developed a livelier range of individually mixed colours as described in Meret Ernst’s powerfully written essay.

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