Presentation of the exhibitors 2022

Photographer Anna Dobrovolskaya-Mints (ADM Photo - London, UK) presents her photographic project "Somewhere to Swim" (curated by Cheryl Newman). In this project, Anna Dobrovolskaya-Mints turns her lens on empty and abandoned swimming pools, breaking the familiarity of these places through the two-dimensional image. It is the absence of people that connects the hotel pools. In this silence, utopia and dystopia lie close together.
The photographs are reminiscent of Lost Places shots but experience a larger universal context through the composition of the motifs. The images challenge the viewer to come to terms with the fact that the world also exists without humans. At first glance, the works convey a playful lightness, but a closer look reveals an infinite depth and forlornness. Here, the painting creates a distance from reality in which a kind of philosophical escapism manifests itself that allows for the utopian.
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The painter Murielle Argoud (Morges, Switzerland) uses a broad base of materials for her large paintings, including stones, sand, gold leaf as well as photographs and oil paints. By combining these elements in transcendent alchemy, the artist creates images full of poetry, metaphysics and cosmogony with her own powerful colour language.
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alpengluehen art group (aag - Switzerland) uses various techniques to create a unique work of art. These include photography, computer graphics, prints, their own oil paintings, collages, lithographs and drawings in digitalised form. By combining these techniques, amazing works are created.
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Arts Crossroad Gallery (Arth, Switzerland) started 2018 with the pop-up exhibition "Armenian Art in Arth". The idea was to make Armenian contemporary art accessible to the Swiss public and to give Armenian artists the opportunity to present their artworks outside their home country. Encouraged by the success so far, the "discovery process" of Armenian contemporary art in Switzerland will be continued.
Works by Asya Haroutunian, Ekaterina Nikitina (Katyusha) and Elena Kupreeva will be shown for the first time at Art International Zurich.
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The Zurich artist Martin Kaspar Bachmann (Wolfhausen, Switzerland) will be showing photographs and sculptures from his work. Drawing, painting and modelling were, to a certain extent, ingrained in him. Growing up in a family of artists, Bachmann was confronted with artistic techniques and perspectives from an early age, which he was later able to deepen at the Lucerne School of Applied Arts.
The presentation at the Zurich Art Fair includes works from all creative periods. In addition to framed watercolours, Bachmann is also showing photographs. These show unique landscape shots taken by drones from various heights, in large format on aluminium and acrylic. The sculptures include works in bronze, plaster, plastic and metal.
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Alexandra von Burg is at home in Ticino. She brings her inspirations to various canvas formats by means of experimental acrylic painting and mixed media. Since 2001, Alexandra von Burg has been able to present her works to a wide audience at national and international art exhibitions and fairs.
In Lugano and the surrounding area, numerous wall and ceiling paintings can be discovered that the artist has created on public and private buildings since 2009. Alexandra von Burg creates her works with extraordinary creative freedom and deliberately eludes any possible traditional definition. Her landscapes show a vast, untouched nature. With intense passion, she transports the viewer into a fantastic, luminous atmosphere with a mysterious charm.
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CasaGalleria MonteGeneroso (Rovio, Switzerland) is a young and innovative art gallery in Ticino. Pop art and street art form the basis of the programme, but photography also occupies a large space. The NFT collection has its own digital space.
At Art International Zurich 2022, CasaGalleria presents Yuri Catania, Pierre Pellegrini, Lorita Preiano, Veronica Barbato, Laura Ceretti, Marshall Vernet and Marco Lupi.
Yuri Catania is a Swiss-Italian artist, photographer and video director. Catania explores the beauty of life in the small things and presents a realistic vision of time. Catania took the photo series Black Flower Secret Garden as a tribute to the flowers in his garden. He photographs them in the stillness of the night, where the colours glow intensely and seem to have sprung from a dreamlike dimension. Yuri Catania also exhibits NFT artworks in Zurich.
Marco Lupi's artworks captivate with the aspect of a dual world between dream and reality. Marco Lupi's paintings are full of stories and emotions - intense and authentic. Lupi paints figures with eclectic anatomy, full of symbolism, which become recurring elements. Various everyday things also appear in Lupi's stories, all taking place in a dreamlike atmosphere.
Marshall Vernet is a photographer from the USA. His photography is influenced by his fondness for French cinema and early European black and white photography. The images have a dark power that combines the look of a charcoal drawing with that of classic film noir. The photographs seem to be simultaneously anchored in the classical photographic world and in the contemporary world of computer-assisted stylistic devices.
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At Art International Zurich, Donegel' Chong is showing current paintings alongside his well-known series. His works are biographical to varying degrees - they are mainly about his preferences. Chong calls them "personal reflections of life". He has developed his own style of painting; with brushstrokes he calls "kurrrlys" or "emotional release brushstrokes". He has been using this technique continuously and with varying intensity since 2018. Donegel' Chong shows inspirations from Francis Bacon and Yayoi Kusama, Cy Twombly and Egon Schiele.
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Sculptor and paper artist Luco Cormerais (Aix-la-Fayette, France) lived for more than ten years in French Polynesia, where he developed his work as a sculptor. In 2003, he moved back to France and finally settled in a remote spot in the middle of forests in 2009. Although his works tend to bring matter out of its anonymity, it is a work of apparent calm that he presents to the viewer.
Luco Cormerais rethinks the aesthetic approach. He is an extremely prolific artist who moves quickly from stone to paper sculpture.
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Francesco Cusumano's painting lives from the incessant search. Sometimes the plan is pushed into the distance by obstacles and unexpected events. The same applies to a painting that suddenly turns out quite differently from what was planned. Improvisation leads Cusumano to the desired result. With the goal in mind, he explores the horizon in search of new directions and spaces. Colours guide the artist in this process. Shades of grey help to separate and focus the different nuances. Inevitably, he continues to paint, and eventually the canvas takes on the colour and a new path becomes visible.
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Galerie Adrienne Desbiolles (Zurich, Switzerland) presents two very different artists at Art International Zurich:
Elisabeth Sunday with black and white photographs and multicolour sculptures by Richard Orlinski. The photographer Elisabeth Sunday is known for her black-and-white portraits of indigenous peoples in Africa and Asia. Sunday photographs on negative film and does not edit her images, nor does she use digital effects. Elisabeth has developed her own analogue process, which she calls "Mirror Photography". This gives her pictures a special effect. The method enlarges her subjects and elongates their bodies, creating dreamlike, mirage-like images. She often photographs the same subjects over several years.
Inspired by pop culture, sculptor Richard Orlinski creates an ever-expanding, colourful pop universe of brightly coloured wild animals. The spectacular, oversized animal sculptures - lions, wolves, deer, gorillas or polar bears - appear proud and defiant, but also symbolise friendliness and freedom. In 2015, Orlinksi became the best-selling contemporary French artist. Richard Orlinski is inspired by the philosophy of making art accessible to all and shows his works in unexpected places in public spaces. This has become his trademark over the years.
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The artistic work of Eilbhe Donovan (Cork, Ireland) is inspired by the ever-changing rugged Atlantic coast. Her works tell of the solitude and simple beauty she documents on her journeys by sea and land. As a minimalist nature artist, she tries to capture the essence of her subject through simplicity - especially in her ink works, which predominantly depict solitary birds in flight with little or no background to emphasise their beauty and fragility. The minimal work in intaglio and ink with lots of white space gives the works a unique lightness.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in private collections in Ireland, Australia, the USA, the UK, Germany and Switzerland.
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Elevate Art gallery (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) shows works by Tiziana Federico, René Golker, Rufus Krieger, Jamari Lior, Manuel Perea del Prado and Joachim Schulz. Elevate Art stands for the promotion of new (e.g., Joachim Schulz) as well as established artists (e.g., Manuel Perea del Prado). To this end, Elevate Art is present on the digital market as well as at fairs, exhibitions and wherever art is lived. Elevate Art is aimed at collectors who are looking for new artistic personalities.
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Exit Art Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) opened as a pop-up gallery during the 2008 recession and has since realised its approach as a gallery for artists. The importance of providing a platform for artists to exhibit their work in difficult times became evident again during the Covid pandemic. Artists need a place where they can express their ideas and creativity and exchange ideas with others. The sense of community strengthens and inspires the artists of ExitArtAmsterdam. They are emerging artists, full of energy, creative and innovative. In Zurich, Silvia Strobos, Pamela Maria, Kika Notten, Arno Hoogland and Hetty Huisman present their works.
Arno Hoogland combines modern production techniques of woodworking with traditional crafts and model making. By experimenting with movement, light, form and texture, his work explores the behaviour of people in spaces and to objects.
Paméla Maria makes collages and reliefs using different materials and techniques such as photography, paint and yarn. With reference to the Dutch landscape, she explores the relationship between nature, urban space and abstraction. The colours and detailed textures are characteristic of her translation of reality and determine the character of the works.
Kika Notten is an expert in egg tempera painting, a technique with as many possibilities as limitations. The process of painting is slow, working with egg tempera requires patience. The paintings are built up with endless soft strokes and transparent layers of paint. The artist has developed an unconventional way of working those surprises her again and again.
Silvia Strobos' main theme is people and the different ways in which they are connected. Her paintings are cheerful and very colourful. It is a search for a way to visualise human interactions using paint and canvas as a medium.
Hetty Huisman's zinc sculptures are fascinating both because of their form and their material. Her sculptures have an extraordinary personal style that is recognisable in their extremely smooth surfaces and combination of curves and sharp lines. Huisman represents reality through simplicity and minimalism.
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The works of the young artist Sina Faccioli (Aesch, Switzerland) reflect the interplay of colours influenced by nature. Using spatula and brush techniques, she applies different layers of colour in an abstract manner, which merge into each other and create a wide variety of colour moods. Rough, raw and unadulterated, like nature itself, her paintings also shine in extraordinary colour nuances. Faccioli's largest series to date - Second Glance - focuses on the abstraction of form through large, superimposed layers of paint that blend into each other, creating a new texture and hue with each additional layer applied. The interplay of form and colour creates its own moods, new environments and realities, some of which only become apparent at second glance.
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Daniela Gauch (Küssnacht a.R., Switzerland) has been working as a freelance artist since 1998. Her mostly large-format acrylic paintings combine representational precision with powerful and idiosyncratic abstraction. The artistic expressiveness of her paintings often results from the contrast between direct representation and free painting. The authenticity of the paintings is convincing, colour and composition are coherent and never random.
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Urs Bischof (Gold Art - Zug, Switzerland) has been working as a freelance goldsmith and artist since 1973. He has shown his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. The focus of his work is on unique jewellery objects and sculptures, but his repertoire also includes art on buildings, fountains and special funerary art. Urs Bischof is a master at integrating his imaginative visions into jewellery and sculptures.
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Harang Gallery (Seoul, South Korea) specialises in advising Korean artists and strengthening the position of Korean art in the international art scene. It has two goals: to promote emerging and established Korean artists internationally and to introduce international artists to the local art scene. Harang Gallery has a strong presence at art fairs and forges close relationships with collectors, curators and art professionals around the world. This year, the gallery is showing works by Soo-In Lee as well as numerous other artists in Zurich.
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Sandy Iseli (Will, Switzerland) grew up in Las Vegas and studied at the University of New Mexico and the School of Interior Design in Scottsdale, Arizona. In her paintings she reflects the beauty of nature, its colours and forms. The works invite us to linger, to consciously see and experience. With her nature paintings, Sandy Iseli creates contemplative works full of reverence for the beauty of the landscape with dazzling colours and a clearly recognisable line.
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Verena Kirchlechner (Zug, Switzerland) has devoted herself entirely to the animal world in her works. Driven by her fascination for animals, Verena Kirchlechner captures many impressions from personal contact and impressive situations in portraits or cut-outs. By effectively bringing out the characteristic charisma of the portrayed animals in large-format paintings, the viewer is enchanted by the beauty and individuality of the animal world. The consistent and sophisticated technique on the one hand and the high-contrast, two-dimensional background on the other create tension and are an important recognition feature.
The artist lives and works in Zug, her studio "Animalia" is in the centre of the old town.
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Gabriele Kulstrunk (Baden, Switzerland) has been creating her works in the form of drawings, watercolours, acrylic paintings and objects for more than 40 years. Under the motto "Perceiving the noise of the present and putting it on canvas with colour", she takes the viewer into a world full of discoveries. Human fates, nature and the environment are her sources of inspiration.
Her works have been shown at many exhibitions at home and abroad and numerous collectors at home and abroad appreciate her works.
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La Gioia Ascona Arthouse (Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland) will be showing a choice selection of Michael Sazarin's new pictorial objects at the 24th Art International Zurich, including weatherproof exhibits, i.e., pictures for your own garden. Sazarin's works are based on absolute conceptual freedom. He consciously begins his work without prior planning. Sazarin finds the structures during the ongoing process. So, it happens again and again that he surprises himself. Michael Sazarins loses and finds himself in colours, forms and surfaces that seem to arise before him by chance. Again and again, he emphasises that he is not painting, but being painted. Chance serves him as an advisor, as impulse and vision at the same time. The painting is as free as music and has already overcome the head while he is still searching for concepts.
La Gioia Ascona Arthouse is also showing sculptures by Markus Lüpertz and Ai Weiwei in Zurich.
The painter, graphic artist and sculptor Markus Lüpertz (born 1941 in Reichenberg) is one of the best-known contemporary German artists. It is impossible to imagine public space without his sculptures. His Mozart interpretations in Salzburg and his homage to Beethoven, for example, are famous. The Bozettis - small studies of his monumental sculptures - often appear as editions in bronze. The sculptures are hand-painted, signed and numbered.
The conceptual artist Ai Weiwei (born 1957 in Beijing) is one of the best-known Chinese artists. The glass sculpture with the outstretched middle finger (Study of Perspective in Glass) is a famous symbol of resistance and freedom. It consists of a series of 12 colours (numbered and signed, Murano glass casting in artist's box with certificate).
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Elena Lagun (Lagun ART Studio Zurich, Switzerland) presents her new art project "Last Clouds of Dreams", large-scale acrylic paintings on wooden panels and on canvas. Elena Lagun creates abstract paintings and landscapes in unique painting techniques (oil, acrylic and encaustic). The paintings are inspired by nature and are imaginatively and emotionally completed in the picture. The landscapes are not depicted realistically but are inspired by real places.
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Gabriella Prokai alias Laprokay (Neerach, Switzerland) has developed a distinctive style for her visual language. Acrylic putty is applied to the blank canvases in several layers before the motif is painted in oil and merges with the background. In this way, the artist creates a relief-like image with different depths that appear differently in different lighting conditions. The backgrounds of the paintings are also very intricately designed, using different materials.
In her latest series, she devotes herself to wine. Here, too, she remains true to her style and mixes references to cubism with photorealism and abstract details. Laprokay creates paintings that resonate with the viewer.
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Petra Lehmann (Rotkreuz, Switzerland) describes her art as Harmonesie - harmony combined with poetry. Harmony formulates the pleasant interplay of colours and forms. Poetry an atmospheric magic that eludes everyday life. Both qualities are reflected in her stylish works. With dreamlike images and subtle texts, Petra Lehmann transports the viewer of her paintings and the reader of her books into her world of fantasy and poetry. In her paintings, she combines nature in the form of a specially created background photo with the imaginative and extraordinary creatures she has drawn by hand and pencil, which she enhances digitally in colour with great sensitivity in filigree lines and attention to detail. The works are enhanced by the high-quality fabric print and the specially made frame with LED lighting technology. Because creativity alone is more bound to reality. Coupled with her distinct imagination, however, Petra Lehmann succeeds in creating objects and images from a surreal dream world.
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Galerie am Lindenhof (Zurich, Switzerland) shows the closely collaborating artists Didier Eichenberger, Tina Itin and Dario Norelli at Art International Zurich 2022 under the exhibition theme FRIENDS.
Dario Norelli has been working on expressing questions and thoughts in forms since 1978. In his paintings, bronzes and sculptures, form and volume are as important to him as the thematic content. Using paint on canvas, bronze and steel, he creates works that address existential questions of life.
Tina Itin is an enormously versatile and imaginative artist who models and shapes thoughts, but also the lightness of life, from various materials such as steel and plastic. The results are witty and touching paintings, bronzes and installations. It is an immediate process that allows for an improvisational, expressive and sculptural openness.
Didier Eichenberger (didiE) is a master at packaging culture, trend and timelessness into something new. He uses unconventional techniques to accentuate with tongue-in-cheek details. His work seduces you into a world of wit and fantasy. One of his trademarks is the ingenious use of nails pressed into materials as decorative tools to create a compact and flat surface.
These three artists can realise original concepts - always committed to the quintessence of the material.
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Heinz Marzohl (Reinach, Switzerland) has a profound knowledge of reprography, typography, screen printing, material and colour theory. He creates idiosyncratic and touching, profound images. They are elaborate, profound, but mostly colourful paintings on canvas. Heinz Marzohl finds his inspiration in nature. For example, lines of animal bodies, drawings of butterflies, weathered wood grain or primeval structures and cracks of rocky cliffs of storm-tossed seashores. Over the years, his struggle to create vivid lines and forms to depict touching sceneries has led to his own distinctive visual language. The works are characterised by the virtuoso play of colour tones, which unite to form common chords and thus make up the unique, enchanting sound of the paintings.
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Monika Meier-Roth (Galerie KUNST-T-RAUM, Gossau ZH, Switzerland) combines her philosophical approach to creation with a solid knowledge of materials and techniques. The large-format works are created from poured layers of paint and structural pastes. The viewer's gaze gets lost in the depth and pure harmony of these emotional worlds. The paintings fascinate through the interplay of colours and techniques, between the exact, straightforward and the wildly creative. The noble overall impression is never clouded, it appears unpretentious and elegant. As different as the works are, they appear contemporary in their celebrated diversity.
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Theres Menzi (Dinhard, Switzerland) moves in the field of tension between abstract and figurative painting. Her works are authentic and multi-layered. Transparent and opaque surfaces, coarse and watery application of paint, soft and hard transitions, expressive-gestural movements and meticulous detail work are in constant alternation. The elemental, rough and the feel of coarse layers of paint are in the foreground. She uses strong brushstrokes like rhythmic musical chords, breaks up surfaces and connects them in new ways. At Art International Zurich, There's Menzi shows expressive portraits juxtaposed with large-format panels reminiscent of landscapes. They are laid out over earthy tones in countless layers of colour that pile up to form a luminous sea of colour. The works captivate with their luminosity, immediacy and intensity.
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Dominika Pastor aka MIKA (Kempten, Germany) is a curious and experimental artist. Mika's path led her via jewellery and fashion design to drawing, sculpture and painting. Her theme is female self-dramatization, which she expresses with very different techniques and artistic means. In this way, she confronts female power and her vanity with ugliness, transience, fragility and eternity. In her current project, portraits on acrylic, she changes the backgrounds and moods of the pictures individually and leaves the completion of the pictures to the viewer.
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Jozek Nowak (Pöcking, Germany) is a wood sculptor of perfection and passion. His life-size figures, carved out of wood with a chain saw, radiate individuality, liveliness and power. The figures and compositions can touch the viewer with strong expressiveness.
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The multimedia artist Jean-François Réveillard (Engelberg, Switzerland) has created a complete virtual world, a metaverse with avatars and mixed reality artworks and NFT works for his philosophical art.
During the Lockdown, many felt cut off from the world, only a few creatives withstood it like islands and proposed new ways of looking at the world - haute couture being one of them. Jean-François Réveillard (JfR) is convinced that haute couture as an island in turbulent times can contribute to a new perspective and a new understanding of the course of the world.
After his philosophical-existentialist performance series (Zurich 2015-2021), and a performative excursion into the world of dancing avatars (Basel 2022), the video art avant-gardist shows himself in top form and presents his new cross-media installation "Fashion Landscape" at ART INTERNATIONAL ZURICH. He uses not only video clips, but also fabrics and 3D printing in a form that brings together fashion and nature in a reflection on consumption and new media.
Réveillard also presents his NFT artworks and virtual works at Art International Zurich.
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Savina Seo (Zurich, Switzerland) presents stylish paintings and bronze sculptures in which she incorporates elements of Western and East Asian aesthetics. Her works are convincing due to their careful craftsmanship and precision. In her Celestial Bodies series, the artist depicts the universe and the cosmos in equal measure, thus entering an artistic exploration of the world of primordial creation. Savina Seo captures this complex theme in her painterly and sculptural works in a fascinating way, creating veritable topographies on planets and celestial bodies.
With great expertise in a wide range of materials and techniques, the artist allows painting and sculpture to flow into one another, modifying the familiar and creating the new.
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SHOWROOM (Zurich, Switzerland) presents the famous Polish painter and filmmaker Jan January Janczak besides the renowned Czech glass designer František Jungvirt at the 24th ART INTERNATIONAL ZURICH.
SHOWROOM, based in Zurich, supports emerging and independent artists, craftspeople, designers and producers from around the world and provides a creative framework for art, lifestyle objects and fresh ideas.
Jan January Janczak studied painting, graphic arts and film in Krakow. In the 1960s and 70s he achieved international fame with his animated films. These were shown at renowned film festivals and awarded prizes. Alongside these successes, his painting also became the focus of public interest. After Janczak held a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, he moved to Switzerland and on to Texas and Hong Kong. Janczak received the "Flame of Peace" for his services to international understanding and his commitment to peace. Commissions in the field of "art on buildings" such as the design of stained-glass windows, religious works for churches as well as bronze sculptures for the Konsthall Landskrona bear witness to his reputation. At the age of 84, Jan Janczak looks back on a multifaceted artistic life and is still full of creative drive. The focus of his diverse artistic oeuvre is the human being and the confrontation with the unconscious; his works explore existential questions.
František Jungvirt is a glass designer and painter from Prague. After graduating from art school, František worked for international studios and world-renowned luxury brands such as Moser and Preciosa. František's work includes everyday products, gallery pieces and site-specific artworks. His unique style is deeply rooted in the classic techniques of Czech glass manufacturing. Through new perspectives and modern trends, he pushes the technical and visual boundaries of glass design. He has already received numerous awards.
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Smart Ship Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) Smart Ship has enriched Art International Zurich since 2011 with its global view of the spirit of the times. Smart Ship presents works by contemporary artists under the guiding principle that individual dignity and identity can be built and conveyed through art. Smart here stands for the promotion of creative thinking. Ship, the ship traditionally connects not only trade but also art, culture and social life of Japan with the world. In all eras, art is something created by people; its meaning lies in the unique human expression that reflects social realities. Smart Ship assumes that interest in and demands on art are rooted in elementary humanity, the longing to understand one's own self and to fill it with life, as well as to allow future generations to participate in it.
At the 24th Art International Zurich, Smart Ship will be showing the following artists: Ayaka Iida, Haruna Aoki, Hiroshi Yamazoe, Katsuyo Matsumaru, Kazuki Matsumura, Linmay Komine, Masahiko Shigyo, Masami Tanno, Taeko Tsunoda, Tomohiro Mae and Toru Teranishi.
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Kristina Sretkova (Berlin, Germany) has art collectors all over the world - in Europe, North and South America, Russia, Asia and Africa. She paints in Germany, Cyprus and Bulgaria. Kristina Sretkova has received numerous awards and has had solo and group exhibitions. Her works are colour explosions full of power and universal reach.
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Stellos Stylianou (Winterthur, Switzerland) has lived and worked as a designer and artist in Switzerland since 1980. Here he studied abstract and contemporary art and learned casting techniques and metal design. In the millennium year 2000, he created the Journal of 366 Pictures, one picture for each day. At the 24th Art International Zurich, he is showing acrylic paintings, digigraphs (digital printing), objects and bronze sculptures.
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Haiting Tang (Tolochenaz, Switzerland) comes from Inner Mongolia. After her art studies, teaching assignments and master's degree, she researched the art of the Chinese Han and Tang dynasties. After more than 20 years at Tianjin University as an associate professor and director of master's programmes, she settled into Switzerland in 2018 and focused on her professional artistic career. She creates colourful paintings of extraordinary power and depth.
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Arnold Truog (Meilen, Switzerland) knows how to bring stones to life in a unique way. His works are of a great harmony. Alabaster, marble and soapstone are his preferred materials. They are artistically accomplished sculptures, full of movement, of wonderful transparency and beautiful colour. He avoids the monumental, for he loves the fine, the elegant, the lovely. Thus, heavy stones become meditative works of art under his hands.
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Tsunshan (Niederrohrdorf, Switzerland) was born and raised in Hong Kong in 1956. He studied art and design in Hong Kong and London. Tsunshan was awarded the Anna K. Meredith Scholarship and used it to further his training in painting and sculpture in Florence. He then moved to Milan, where he worked as an artist and designer. Since 1988 he has lived and worked as a graphic designer and artist in Switzerland.
His works have been exhibited in various galleries and art museums in Europe.
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Andreas Urscheler (Zurich, Switzerland) is an artist and photographer who specialises in large-format, high-resolution, limited edition art prints. Urscheler's passion is the craftsmanship and beauty of old barns and huts in high alpine and remote areas of the Swiss mountains. His "woodcuts" focus on the cross-section of the weathered and splayed trunks at the corner joints of the old huts. Urscheler's woodcuts are not simply cross-sections of a tree, but become concrete interfaces of time, natural forces and settlement history. They are reminiscent of mandalas, a metaphor of life, and in Urscheler's subtle photographs they become figures of thought on the great theme of being, becoming and passing away.
Andreas Urscheler grew up in Zurich and Davos and studied art and humanities.
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Vijion Art Gallery presents the artists Julia Runggaldier, Josef Kostner and Egon Digon at the 24th Art International Zurich.
Julia Runggaldier draws her inspiration from the refuge of the mind. With her gaze lingering there, she explores a transience that interrupts the acceleration of our time. Julia expresses a unity with herself and others in her art and strives for universal unity. Her works speak of a life force, respecting the greatness and fragility of humanity.
Egon Digon works wood in a way that is reminiscent of something as soft as foam. He breaks the solidity of the rigid material and transforms it into a liquid mass in motion. This treatment has a symbolic character and stands for our time and the increasing appropriation by orders, which the artist wants to escape.
Josef Kostner seeks his artistic inspiration in the nature and landscape of his homeland in the Dolomites. The artist is a critical and attentive observer of contemporary society, whose loss of values and ideals is at the centre of his work and the subject of uncompromising and merciless artistic representation.
Harald Plattner's paintings explore the suggestive worlds of protection and surveillance. His paintings tell stories of young people looking directly at the viewer, returning and countering the gaze. The people depicted almost completely fill the canvas. Plattner questions the alienation as well as the self-determination of the portrayed as well as the viewer. and shows moments that reveal more than what is visible at first glance. This complex web of perception, observation and introspection plays the central role in Plattner's paintings.
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The sculptor Annemarie Waibel (Zurich-Zollikerberg, Switzerland) impresses with ever new and surprising interpretations of the human figure, especially of women in all their diversity of life. Starting from classical sculptural roots, she creates humorous, profound and socially critical creatures in a variety of techniques. With creative passion, the artist depicts current and timeless themes in small to larger-than-life sculptures made of bronze, plaster, concrete and plastic. These range from miniatures to a size of 2 metres. New interpretations and combinations with surprising and contemporary elements make the sculptures appear timeless.
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Corinne Waldmeier (Zurich, Switzerland) dedicates her current series to hidden longings and feelings, to which she lends a haunting depth with her incomparable painting style. Step by step, she works her way out of the multi-layered, dark underground into the light, as an analogy to the hidden inner world that wants to be uncovered and made conscious. Her artistic craft has developed from decades of working with a wide variety of techniques and a concern that runs like a thread through all her works: to move the viewer and invite him to turn his attention inwards.
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Chris van Weidmann (Chur, Switzerland) combines handwritten calligraphy with her view of the world, which is revealed in subtle images of nature through words. She taught herself the art of calligraphy when she was ten years old, and it remains her passion to this day. She wants to give people time again and show viewers that it is worth taking a closer look after all. In 2015, van Weidmann had her first exhibition and has since presented her unique art at more than 50 national and international exhibition venues and has also received several awards for her exceptional talent. She has been showing her art at Art International Zurich since 2016 and continues to wow visitors every year.
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YanYan (Switzerland) is a versatile painter, her works show a wide range of styles. What is particularly striking about her paintings is their true-to-life expression. It is often moments of joy or realisation in everyday life that inspire YanYan's works. Her paintings are aesthetically pleasing and of great clarity, often with a touch of humour and eroticism, and they deliberately avoid complication. YanYan studied painting in China and now applies traditional Chinese painting to Swiss motifs in her works. As an artist, she is brilliant at using the language of Eastern art to reflect her own life in the West.
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Maura Patrizia Zoller presents her latest works full of vitality and positive energy on the theme of "Golden Moments" at the 24th ART INTERNATIONAL ZURICH. In this series, different shades of colour come together in golden elegance. Above all, the colour gold dominates the expressive acrylic paintings in various nuances, shades and intensities, making "Gold" the expression of a very subtle interplay of perception, inspiration, emotion and symbolism. The paintings oscillate in lightness and power, appear elegant and noble at the same time.
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