Flowers David Hominal mixes images from different sources and references with different arts and pictorial traditions in order to take on the great narratives of painting, and even to partake in them, with the gravity of…
Plis et replies (Folds and Re-Folds) Silvie Defraoui studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers and then ceramics at the École des arts décoratifs in Geneva. After a period working alone, she teamed up with Chérif Defraoui. Between…
Sky Chief Robert Breer began his career as a painter after studying at Stanford University, near San Francisco, in 1949. That same year he moved to Paris where he applied the principles of neoplasticism, as defined by…
Grave Don Hazlitt worked on this painting while staying at the Nota Bene art residency in Cadaqués, Spain, in 1996. It is one of a series of small-format works in bright colours, influenced by the Mediterranean…
Sans titre (Untitled) Alain Huck studied at the École cantonale d’art in Lausanne from 1982 and 1986, where he was influenced by the néo-géo school and by his teachers, Jean Otth and Janos Urban. The notion of the…
The Sleepers (Antoine Gonthier, Twentieth Sleeper, and Patrice X., Twenty-First Sleeper) Propped up on a bolster and a pile of pillows and tucked under warm blankets, fourteen-year-old Patrice X. is smiling timidly at the photographer. His head is slightly tilted and his right hand is gripping…
Nichtrauch/Non-fumée (Notsmoke) Markus Raetz’s drawings, engravings and sculptures play with the viewer’s visual perception: shapes are unveiled or they shift before our very eyes as we move around the artwork, revealing the illusory nature of reality. The…
Le Major Davel (Major Davel) Sophie Calle’s work from the 1990s often stages works of art missing from museums for various reasons. Her 1991 Last Seen… series, for instance, referenced the theft of works from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum…
Nature morte aux fourchettes (Still Life with Forks) In his final years, René Auberjonois rose to international fame at the 1948 Venice Biennale and the 1955 Kassel Documenta. His unwavering commitment to figurative art and his strict formalism made him one of the…
Untitled (Dog) (from the series Four Aquatints) A woman is bending over, reaching for something we cannot see, while a dog watches her from a slight distance. The two protagonists seem to be sharing a moment that is hard to situate time-wise,…