| | | | | | | | | Werner Bischof, Girls, St. Moritz, 1948, 50 x 50 cm, Gelatin Silver Print, Edition 8, stamped and signed by the son of Werner Bischof, director of the Werner Bischof estate, © Werner Bischof Estate / Magnum Photos | | | | | WINTER IN SWISS PHOTOGRAPHY | | | | | | | St. Moritz: 2 – 21 February, 2019 | | | Opening: Saturday 2 February, 5:00pm
Group show curated by Mirjam Cavegn and Daniel Blochwitz | | | | | | Forum Paracelsus Plazza Paracelsus 2, (Hotel Kempinski) | St. Moritz
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| | | | | | | | | | Albert Steiner, Winter landscape near Samaden, undated, signed Vintage gelatin silver print toned, 16.5 x 23 cm / 6.5 x 9 in. (size print), signed and titled on recto, ©Bruno Bischofberger, Meilen-Zürich | | | | | | Once again the gallery Bildhalle is hosted at the Forum Paracelsus in St. Moritz this year and presents a group exhibition of important positions in classic and contemporary Swiss photography on the topic of "Winter".
Winter as a photographic subject has a long tradition in Switzerland. Snow and cold almost completely transform a landscape, concealing many of its characteristics and often reducing them to contrasts, planes and textures. Winter thus invites us to look at a place in a new and different way, to surrender ourselves to the play of light on this blank canvas and to trace the fresh traces. Many artists and photographers feel inspired by this side of winter. | | | | | | | | | | Philipp Giegel, Horse race on the frozen Obersee, Arosa, Switzerland, 1955, signed Gelatin Silver Print, 49 x 59 cm, Artist Print, only available print in this size, 1 smaller print available in 30 x 40 cm, © Philipp Giegel, Esther Woerdehoff Paris | | | | | | | A highlight of the exhibition are the vintage prints by Albert Steiner (1877-1965) from the Kaspar Fleischmann Collection, never shown publicly before and unmatched in their quality and uniqueness. Steiner is followed chronologically by winter pictures of important exponents of Swiss photography: Werner Bischof (1916-1954), René Burri (1933-2014), Arnold Odermatt (*1925), René Groebli (*1927) and Philipp Giegel (1927-1997) and the Swiss-French photographer Sabine Weiss (*1924), who lives in Paris. | | | | | | | | | Douglas Mandry, Mountains St. Moritz, from the series „Monuments", 2018
Lithography, stone print on used Geotextile,114 x 130 cm, Unique Piec, ©Douglas Mandry | | | | | | These icons of Swiss photography are juxtaposed with more recent positions: for example, Douglas Mandry's unique photographic specimens (photographic lithographs on a glacier cloth) or Sandro Diener's landscapes (*1975).
The exhibition is rounded off with photographs by established Swiss photographers: Robert Bösch (*1954), Guido Baselgia (*1953), Daniel Schwartz (*1955), Willy Spiller (*1947) and Bernd Nicolaisen (*1959). They all know how to translate the breathtaking beauty and existential boundaries of alpine regions into exceptional photographs. | | | | | | | | | | Sabine Weiss, Porte de Vanves, Paris,1951, 40 x 50 cm, signed Gelatin Silver Print, open edition, ©Sabine Weiss | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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