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Lebensreform • Freikörperkultur • Kunst • Veranstaltung • Expressionismus • Monte Verità Artvera’s Gallery Geneva “Monte Verità: Expressionist Utopia” 15. April - 30. Juli 2016

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Swiss gallery presents Monte Verità Expressionist Utopia

In the Swiss Geneva Artvera’s gallery opened an exhibition of European and Russian expressionists of the first half of the twentieth century”, Monte Verità expressionist utopia”. She opens the series of exhibitions dedicated to the works of artists who lived and worked on the Monte Verità, one of the points of the popular nineteenth-century tourist route of the Grand Tour.

“For me, Monte Verità is the experiment group of people, seeking alternative way of life, not a theoretical concept, namely, live practice,” said Andreas Schwab, curator of the Foundation Monte Verità in Ascona and co-author of the exhibition catalogue.

The exhibition includes works by Alexei Jawlensky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Marianne Verevkin, Arthur Segal, Andre Derain, Edvard Munch, Vladimir Baranov-Rossini, David Burliuk, Kees van Dongen and other artists. On the opening day of the exhibition dance troupe DanceLab Berlin showed dance performance El Circulo Eterno, staged by renowned choreographer Pina Bausch.

“This carefully constructed thematic exhibition — a wonderful opportunity to tell about the amazing center of artistic life, which have shaped a cultural landscape of Switzerland in the beginning of the twentieth century, the intellectual and artistic environment in which artists explored the idyllic image of Switzerland as a Paradise on earth,” said Sofia Komarova, Director of artvera’s gallery.

“Monte Verità — expressionist utopia” will run until July 30,

2016 and will be the first in a series of shows in September 2016 will open the exhibition of works by contemporary artists who have worked on Monte Verità, and in the spring of 2017 are

scheduled for installation in the Museum Casa Anatta reproducing the first is similar to the Monte Verità exhibition, 1978 on the basis of archival materials curator and art historian Harald Szeemann.

Actualmente se expone en la Galerfa Artveras de Ginebra la exhibicion “Monte Verità: Expressionist Utopia”, una muestra que refleja el estilo de vida de la legendaria Colina de la verdad

Desde el 15 de abril y hasta el 30 de julio La Galeria Artveras presenta en Ginebra la exposition: “'Monte Verità: Expressionist Utopia”, una estupenda exhibicion que celebra el trabajo de artistas cuyo proceso creativo ha sido fuertemente influenciado por sus experiencias en el Monte Verità, la mitica colonia fundada a principios del siglo pasado en la region de Ascona que albergo a artistas, escritores, pintores y demas personajes relacionados con el quehacer cultural del momento.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), Tanz zwischen den Frauen II, 1919-1926, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm 59.05 x 59.05. Foto: Artveras Gallery

En la gala de inauguración se pudo apreciar una selection del trabajo de artistas rusos y europeos de vanguardia que incluyo a Marianne von Werefkin, Alexej von Jawlensky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner y Arthur Segal. Esta es la primera exposición monografica que se enfoca en la herencia del peculiar estilo de vida del Monte Verità en la iconografica propuesta de los artistas europeos de las primeras decadas del siglo XX.

Arthur Segal (1875-1944), Bergdorf, 1916, oil on canvas, 88 x 70 cm 34.65 x 27.56 Foto: Artveras Gallery

Los verdores propios de la montana comulgan con las figuras desnudas de los espiritus libres que forjaron la historia de la colina. La danza, la libertad y la naturaleza son topicos que se repiten en la exhibicion que, bajo la curaduría de Andreas Schwab, se establece como la primera de una serie de exposiciones que continuara en octubre de este ano.

Monte Verità : Expressionist Utopia Geneva 15 April - 30 July 2016

Artvera’s Gallery is pleased to announce “Monte Verità: Expressionist Utopia”, the first in a series of exhibitions presenting major artists whose work has been strongly influenced by their experiences on Monte Verità, the utopian colony founded at the beginning of the 20th century in Ascona, Switzerland. This inaugural show, launching the exhibition cycle, will display a selection of European and Russian Avant-Garde artists such as Marianne von Werefkin, Alexej von Jawlensky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Arthur Segal. An exhibition featuring leading contemporary artists whose work draws inspiration from Monte Verità will follow in October 2016.

Founded in the early 20th century as an alternative vegeterian colony, Monte Verità quickly became a cradle of European counterculture as prominent artists, anarchists, philosophers and dancers settled there. Key themes apparent in the exhibited works are Dance, Nature and the Human Body as forms of expression of artistic and spiritual freedom. An important part of the exhibition will be dedicated to two movements that were integral to the philosophical foundations of Monte Verità: Lebensreform (“life reform”) which emerged at the end of the nineteenth, beginning of the twentieth century and Freikörperkultur (free body culture).

Artists in the exhibition include: Max Beckmann, Wladimir Burliuk, Vladimir Davidovich Baranov-Rossine, Andre Derain, Kees van Dongen, Erich Heckel, Alexey von Jawlensky Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, August Macke, Edvard Munch, Otto Mueller, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Marianne von Werefkin, Georg Tappert and Arthur Segal.

Monte Verità : utopie expressionniste Geneve 15 avril - 30 juillet 2016

La Galerie Artvera’s presente «Monte Verità : Utopie expressionniste », première exposition d’une serie qui présentera le travail d’importants artistes influencés par les colonies utopiques, fondatrices du Monte Verità a Ascona (Suisse) au début du XXeme siecle. Cette première exposition, annonçant le cycle a venir, illustrera le travail d’artistes Européens et Russes à l’exemple de Marianne von Werefkin, Arthur Segal, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner et Alexej von Jawlensky.

La colonie alternative et végétarienne au debut du XXème siècle provoqua la naissance du mythe du Monte Verità avec la présence d’artistes, d’anarchistes, de philosophes et de penseurs. L’expression des libertés artistiques et spirituelles, comme la danse, le naturisme et le culte du corps, marqueront les oeuvres de Max Beckmann, Wladimir Burliuk, Vladimir Davidovich Baranov-Rossine, Andre Derain, Kees van Dongen, Erich Heckel, Alexey von Jawlensky Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, August Macke, Edvard Munch, Otto Mueller, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Marianne von Werefkin, Georg Tappert et Arthur Segal.