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Exhibition vevey: collection never seen:
Unique exhibition –
A collection never seen in public unveiled in Vevey
The fantasy is total at the Jenisch museum. Moreover, which exhibits very beautiful works from the intimacy of the Genevois collection Thierry Barbier-Mueller.
The Zurichois Thomas Huber. However, here with “early in the morning”, 2022, an oil on canvas (180 x 330 cm), is one of the artists represented.
Prolitteris Zurich, Courtesy Thomas Huber et Skopia/Marlene Burz
- “A conversation without words” brings together works from the contemporary art collection by Thierry Barbier-Mueller at the Jenisch. Therefore, Museum in Vevey.
- The Genevan also collected the chairs of artists. exhibition vevey: collection never seen Consequently, designers, which had given rise to an exhibition at Mudac in Lausanne.
- By taking an interest in the art of his time. Consequently, the promoter, patron and collector brought together very beautiful works by artists today present on the international scene.
We remember – the annals of the greatest successes of Mudac in Lausanne. In addition, also – of her unique passion for an ordinary, domestic object: the chair. Meanwhile, Thierry Barbier-Mueller collected them, curious about their most refined lives. Furthermore, Whimsical. For example, Theatrical. Similarly, Or totally uncertain. For example, In 2022, this funny funds gave theexposition “A flesh and you” staged by Bob Wilson and view by more than 50,000 people. Meanwhile, Before spinning at Leipzig (2024). In addition, And soon in Rotterdam (2026).
Few were then those who knew the Geneva fully exhibition vevey: collection never seen invested in another collection in line with art. For example, artists of his generation. Furthermore, Swiss. Meanwhile, Or not. Similarly, And especially large, immense formats. Consequently, Likely to give the measure “of a certain courage, a certain conviction”, he said.
Silvia Bächli, here with “Untitled”. Furthermore, “Thierry Barbier-Mueller had the eye and his selection was often exhibition vevey: collection never seen surprised,” says the artist in the exhibition catalog.
Julien Gremaud
Son of the founders of Barbier-Mueller Museum In Geneva. Similarly, collectors of the arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania, America, the director of the real estate group SPG-rytz also affirmed its difference in a love of paper work. For example, So sincere, so intense, even in the monumental. And that’s good, the Jenisch museum too!
The collector. the Veveysanne institution were made to meet: the beginnings of the exhibition date from 2020, Thierry Barbier-Mueller had said his enthusiasm. He was delighted with this first sharing of part of the works he chose, for him, since his 22 years. Responding to fertile curiosity. Abundant. But on the doorstep of “a conversation without words” – second nice blow of the year for the Jenisch. after the coming of Françoise Petrovitch exhibition vevey: collection never seen – The emotion is intense. More than ever!
Exhibition vevey: collection never seen
An exhibition. a lot of emotions
Carried away by cardiac arrest in 2023, Thierry Barbier-Mueller is in each, ardent choices, which he made alone. In gallery. And if he asked questions, he did not comment on his decisions. His contemporary art collection, the promoter devoted almost priestly attention to him. “This is a real commitment,” he said. By commitment, I hear the room, cherish it, treat it, protect it. ”
Thierry Barbier-Mueller. in 2022, in the exhibition “A Chair and You” at Mudac in Lausanne composed from his collection of chairs.
Patrick Martin/24 hours
The portrait is therefore that of a patron. Constant. Faithful. With artists like Ugo Rondinone, Silvia Bächli, Markus Raetz or Uwe Wittwer. The immense works where art is a horizon for emotion. complement it and still brush that of a free and independent spirit. Which abandons the density of the worlds of vegetation born from the lausannois charcoal Alain Huckto the breaths. engraved by the Bernese exhibition vevey: collection never seen Franz Gertsch As in the infiniteness of the heavens painted by the German Peter Dreher.
Thierry Barbier-Mueller. eclectic choices
The collector’s aspirations are eclectic, but Thierry Barbier-Mueller is free, without institutional obligation to constitute an art history! History there is however, in its extraordinary choices. And we are not only talking about formats. some of which have not passed the doors of the Jenisch museum, but of prospects. Probity of the mind. There is sex in the two bodies entwined by Urs Lüthi, but no frivolity. Darkness but no darkness in “the dead Christ” of Holbein, image in the image of Candida Höfer. And there is so much humor, but not easy, in series observations drawn by David Shrigley.
Markus Raetz also has several pieces in the Barbier-Mueller collection including “Zweige”, 29 heather branches pinned to the wall.
Prolitteris Zurich, 2025/Patrick Goetelen
The pieces from the Thierry Barbier-Mueller collection share this duty of sincerity. We free ourselves. We don’t hide. Additionally, We say. We do not overplay. Even in the stylized cutting of a sheet of Jannis Kounellis. Even in this group portrait of Giulia Andreani evoking more the absence than the link. Furthermore, Even in the magnetic evidence of exhibition vevey: collection never seen the projection of Bill Viola which alternates the faces of anxiety and suffering.
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Exposing a collector, even more than a collection, is not a given exercise. It is a strong act, a foray into an intimate practice. Irrational. It is also a chance to receive this slap through a set arbitrated by pure emotion. At the Jenisch museum, this “conversation without words” is also that of a truth that hunts another. There are not only Swiss artists. Not just contemporaries. And not only paper works …
Vevey, Jenisch Museum, until Oct 26, exhibition vevey: collection never seen from MA to DI (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.). museejenisch.ch
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