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| Reto Camenisch: Grimsel/Susten I (Berner Oberland), 2005 |
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| Swiss photography in the interplay between wanderlust and homeland |
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| 20 May – 13 August 2017 |
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| Opening Reception: Friday, 19 May 6:30 p.m. |
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The Kunstmuseum Thun dedicates its summer exhibition to six Swiss photographers, who deal with the theme of leaving and returning home. In their individual narrative for-mats the works by Reto Camenisch, David Favrod, Martin Glaus, Yann Gross, Daniela Keiser and Ella Maillart provide views at the world, from daily life in Switzerland to impressions from foreign countries. The six positions, which range over a period of 80 years, are connected by their curiosity and open-mindedness. They drive the photogra-phers abroad where they also live for a long time. But the look at the homeland is also formative; here they go searching for the ordinary and the strange in their own land. The repertoire of the exhibited works ranges from landscapes to portraits of artists, as well as unknown contemporaries and everyday scenes.
Reto Camenisch (* 1958) can be described as a wanderer between worlds. His analogue black and white travel photos from abroad, as well as the mountain pictures from the Bernese Oberland, testify to his hikes for several days in the steppes of Nepal or the screes on the Grimsel Pass. The photographer as a passionate "crossover artist" can turn to a single topic for years and completely immerse himself in it. Even his portraits and photos of people radiate calmness and convey the strangely distant moment between the portrayed and the portraitist. |
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Yann Gross
Ipira Mama Santo Tomás, Peru |
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| Yann Gross (* 1981) is interested in the foreign in Switzerland and in his work Horizonville (2005–2008) finds the Wild West in his homeland. He rode through the Rhone valley on a moped to explore the living environment of a group of people who cultivate fondness for the Wild West. His recordings show people who relate to the American Wild West in various ways and thereby create a new cultural identity for themselves. They all live their own American dream, which they try to realise in the Swiss reality. The artist, who lives in the Amazon in Peru, also develops projects there with indigenous youths, thus drawing attention to the importance of belonging to a community in his work series "Jungle Book". |
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Martin Glaus
Ausflug einer Artistenfamilie, 1950
© Fotostiftung Schweiz |
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| The Thun artist Martin Glaus (1927–2006), whose estate is now in the care of the Fotostiftung Schweiz in Winterthur, in his work focussed on pictures of people, especially on portraits of artists and images of children. The son of the former director of the Kunstmuseum Thun, Alfred Glaus, always approached them with his camera at eye level to make the world visible and comprehensible from the children's point of view. He likewise loved to experiment as a press photographer, and his genre pictures show life in the big cities like Paris or Madrid, but village life in the Bernese Oberland was also part of his repertoire. He often provided his magazine and newspaper clients not only with the photographic footage, but also with the copy for the reports. |
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Daniela Keiser
Hotel Pyramide (In and Out of Translation), 2016/2017
Courtesy STAMPA Galerie, Basel |
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| Daniela Keiser's (* 1963) photographic oeuvre is a conglomeration of narratives from widely varying worlds and is created by incorporating a wide range of techniques. Besides the atmospheric view of her environment at home and abroad, dynamism and the processual play an important part in her work. This often results in interactive works with people in the form of photographs combined with text or audio recordings, like for instance in the multipart Cairo installation (Hotel Pyramid, 2016), which was created for Kunstmuseum Thun. |
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David Favrod
Pixel camouflage, 2013 from the series Hikari |
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| The photographer David Favrod, born in Japan in 1982, mirrors the discrepancy of his two identities as a Swiss and Japanese in his images in a sensitive way. By adding Japanese elements to his pictures created in Switzerland, he makes the contrast between his two home countries visible. In his work Favrod leaves nothing to chance. Through precise stagings and careful editing he creates intense and meaningful pictures. |
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Ella Maillard
Chez le photographe
Taschkent, Ouzbékistan, 1932 |
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| Between 1930 and 1932, the author and photographer Ella Maillart (1903–1997) travelled as a young woman in the Caucasus and the Soviet republics of Central Asia and recorded her encounters with the population in impressive pictures and travel reports. Her sensitive landscape images and photo-graphs of the population testify to her honest interest in her counterparts. After her re-turn to Switzerland in 1945, Maillart settled in Geneva and Chandolin and made an im-pressive documentation of the daily life in the background of her surroundings in western Switzerland. |
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