Venues
Hauser & Wirth
© Frank Bowling, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2022, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, Photo: Alex Delfanne
Over the course of six decades, Frank Bowling has relentlessly pursued a practice which boldly expands the possibilities and properties of paint. Ambitious in scale and scope, his dynamic engagement with the materiality of his chosen medium, and its evolution in the broad sweep of art history, has resulted in paintings of unparalleled originality and power. For the artist’s first presentation at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, the exhibition presents recent abstract paintings made mostly during the lockdown in 2020. Following a period of ill health for the artist, the works trace the renewed energy and dynamism that Bowling channelled in the studio during his recovery.
Zürich
© Jack Whitten Estate, Courtesy the Estate and Hauser & Wirth, Photo: Genevieve Hanson
The first solo exhibition by the celebrated American artist Jack Whitten in Switzerland, brings attention to paintings and works on paper created during the late 1960s, many of which have never been exhibited before.
Jack Whitten is most recognized for his innovative processes of applying paint to the surface of his canvases and transfiguring their material terrains. Over the course of a six-decade career, Whitten’s work bridged rhythms of gestural abstraction and process art, arriving at a nuanced language of painting, which hovers between mechanical automation and intensely personal expression.
Zürich
© Succession Alberto Giacometti / 2022 ProLitteris, Zurich, Photo: Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs. All rights reserved
A new exhibition at Bahnhofstrasse 1, brings together the work of two of the greatest artists of the 20th century: Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso. With a selection of post-war works, the exhibition ‘Facing Infinity. Alberto Giacometti & Pablo Picasso’, curated by Dr Dieter Buchhart, opens new insights into the artists’ questioning of existence and their endless search for the relationship of figure and space. In Picasso’s late work, the aim to exorcise death becomes latent through the portrayal of emotions and sensual motifs; imbued with a sense of urgency as he paints against time. In contrast, Giacometti’s restless inquiries linger on the void between forms, the indivisibility of the human being, and the question of proximity and distance.
Zürich