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Latifa Echakhch studied at the art academies of Grenoble,
Paris-Cergy, and Lyon. Now based in Switzerland, Eckakhch is
concerned with the concept of culture as well as personal and
collective memory in between the poles of social and political
debate. Her work often features installations that make use of a
wide variety of materials, such as brick and raw earth, which she
mixes with ink. This book is part of the new On Words series that
presents conversations with contemporary women artists. Through
them, readers come to understand the sources from which they draw
inspiration, the themes in their work, and their view of the world.
Edited by Julie Enckell, Federica Martini, and Sarah Burkhalter and
bringing together a wide range of viewpoints, the On Words series
adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history as told by those who
actively shape it. Text in English and French.
Swiss artist Silvie Defraoui, born in 1935, is a pioneer of video
art and art education in Switzerland. Beginning in 1975, she worked
in collaboration with her husband Chérif Defraoui (1932–1994).
Together they developed the Archives du Futur, a reflection on
images, their status, and potential for memory and the future. The
two artists also founded the legendary Atelier Médias Mixtes at
Geneva’s École supérieure des Beaux-Arts (now HEAD—Genève).
Since 1995, Defraoui has pursued a practice using various forms of
expression, including projection, installation, ceramics, and
serigraphy. This book is part of the new On Words series that
presents conversations with contemporary women artists. Through
them, readers come to understand the sources from which they draw
inspiration, the themes in their work, and their view of the world.
Edited by Julie Enckell, Federica Martini, and Sarah Burkhalter and
bringing together a wide range of viewpoints, the On Words series
adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history as told by those who
actively shape it. Text in English and French.
Isabelle Cornaro, based in Paris and Geneva, holds degrees in art
history and visual arts. She has a strong interest in experimental
cinema and devotes herself to the narrative, symbolic, and economic
origins of things. In her work she assumes an anthropologist-type
manner to investigate people's seemingly fixated attachment to
emotionally charged, even fetishised objects, creating large stage
installations and short movies. This book is part of the new On
Words series that presents conversations with contemporary women
artists. Through them, readers come to understand the sources from
which they draw inspiration, the themes in their work, and their
view of the world. Edited by Julie Enckell, Federica Martini, and
Sarah Burkhalter and bringing together a wide range of viewpoints,
the On Words series adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history
as told by those who actively shape it. Text in English and French.
Swiss photographer Rene Burri (1933-2014) has been wherever history
had been played out. A member of the famous Magnum Photos
cooperative since 1955, he photographed in the Middle East in the
1950s and 1960s, recording the Six-Days and Yom Kippur Wars, as
well as the Vietnam War during the 1960s. His many travels took him
to Japan and China, across Europe and the Americas to report
sharply many of the 20th century's major events. His extraordinary
sense for people and their personalities helped him create
portraits of celebrities such as architects Le Corbusier, Oscar
Niemeyer, and Luis Barragan; or artists Alberto Giacometti, Pablo
Picasso, and Jean Tinguely. His iconic picture of Che Guevara with
cigar, shot in 1963, is one of the world's most famous and widely
reproduced photographic portraits ever. Burri had a close
relationship with Lausanne's Musee de l' Elysee and in 1987 the
museum staged a first exhibition of his work, entitled The Ruins of
the Future, followed by his first major retrospective in 2004. The
museum also hosts the Fondation Rene Burri, which the artist
established in 2013 as a home for his estate. Published to coincide
with a new exhibition at Musee de l'Elysee in spring 2020, Rene
Burri: An Eye Explosion draws from this vast collection. It brings
together for the first time Burri's entire body of work,
photographic and non-photographic. Black-and-white and colour
photographs feature alongside previously unpublished archival
documents as well as book designs, exhibition projects, travel
diaries, collages, watercolours, and other multiple objects he
collected. It offers a new, multi-faceted and uniquely intimate
view of one of the world's greatest photo reporters.
Alain Huck, born 1957, lives and works in francophone Switzerland.
Following his degree in Fine Arts at the Ecole cantonale des
beaux-arts Lausanne (ECAL) he became a founding member of the M/2
artists collective in Vevey in 1987, with whom he worked for four
years. He has been working on his own since 1990, creating a body
of polymorphous works in a variety of media: painting, photography,
drawing, video, often using text as well. In 2006 Huck started to
work on an extensive series of very large-scale charcoal drawings,
titled Salons noirs. This corpus now comprises nearly 80
compositions, in which the artist has superimposed different
images, combined and confused within a mobile, blurred vision that
is occasionally reiterated. This new book for the first time
presents the entire series, completed by a selection of other
recent works by Alain Huck. Julie Enckell Julliard's essay examines
the 'Salons noirs' and suggests ways of approaching them, and also
refers to the various relations of Huck's work to that of other
artists, such as Albrecht Durer, Arnold Bocklin, Robert Longo, or
Gerhard Richter.
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