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Volume Number mosaicX1 Midwest Outreach for Swiss Ar t, Innovation and Culture 2011 Bank of America Chicago Marathon Swiss Cheering Station The 2011 Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Sunday, October 9, 2011, will again feature the Swiss Cheering Station at M 12.5/ K 20 at the northeast corner of Franklin and Washington in the heart of the Loop. The Swiss Cheering Station is the meeting point for everyone that wants to support the Swiss runners, share in the excitement of the Chicago Marathon and have fun cheerleading. It is organized for the seventh year in a row by the Consulate General of Switzerland with the support of the Swiss organizations in Chicago. Please bring Swiss flags, Hopp Schwiiz, Calendar Forza Svizzera and Allez la Suisse banners, cowbells and other cheering gadgets to the Wood Type, Evolved—Dafi Station. Swiss hats and T-shirts will be provided. Kühne: Exhibition at the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago, 1104 S. Wabash Avenue, Suite Face of Our Time with Daniel Schwartz 200, Chicago. From September 8 until December 10, 2011. For at UMMA more information, please visit www.colum.edu/bookandpaper Swiss photographer Daniel Schwartz is one of five contemporary photographers exhibited in Face Dressing the Monument— of Our Time at the University of Michigan Tobias Madison & Kaspar Museum of Art (UMMA) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Müller and Hannah from November 12, 2011, through February 5, Weinberger: Exhibition at the 2012 (www.umma.umich.edu). Lynden Sculpture Center, 2145 W. Brown Deer Road, The exhibition takes its title from the book “Face Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From of Our Time” (1929) by August Sander that reveals September 25 to November 27, Germany before World War II. Similarly, the 2011. For details, see photographers featured in Face of Our Time share www.lyndensculpture garden.org an interest in making pictures that capture the world as it really is. Jim Goldberg explores the 47th Chicago International topic of migration and the desire for escape on a Film Festival—Swiss Film global scale; Zanele Muholi focuses on queer black Day is Done: Documentary African identity; Jacob Aue Sobol immerses competition Docufest at AMC himself in the life of the Inuit in Greenland; and Daniel Schwartz (1955) studied photography at the River East 2, Chicago. Friday, Richard Misrach portrays the resilience of New Zurich School of Art and Design. His works have October 7, and Monday, Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. been shown internationally in numerous solo October 10, 2011, at 3:40 p.m. exhibitions, such as at the Kunsthaus Zurich (1986) For more information, please Daniel Schwartz traveled the Silk Road from 1995 and the Imperial Palace Museum in Beijing (1993), visit www.chicagofilm to 2007 seeking to understand and reveal the and in group shows at the Venice Biennale (1993) festival.com. The CIFF will take place from October 6 to 20, histories of the region along the famed road. In and in Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra (2003). 2011. “Travelling through the Eye of History” Schwartz "Travelling through the Eye of History" is his fourth presents us with a portrait of the region he refers book (www.danielschwartz.org). to as the “global heartland”. It is the region where antiquity overlaps with the contemporary world Support for the exhibition Face of Our Time with and where in the past and present the relentless Daniel Schwartz is provided in part by Pro Helvetia, pursuit of resources and military ambitions have Swiss Arts Council, Zurich, Switzerland. left their marks. MOSAIC/PAGE 2 Dafi Kühne at Columbia College Wood Type, Evolved Dafi Kühne, Swiss graphic designer and letterpress printmaker, is one of the featured artists in the exhibition Wood Type, Evolved at the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. The exhibition opened on September 8 and will run until December 10, 2011. It documents the global, burgeoning mode of activity in which contemporary artists produce artwork as they develop new printing techniques based on traditional letterpress materials— Calendar particularly wood type. Dafi Kühne (1982) is a graduate of the Zurich 2011 Bank of America University of the Arts. His thesis Wood Type Now! Chicago Marathon—Swiss explored new possibilities for the letterpress and Cheering Station: Sunday, graphic design and investigated the intersection October 9, 2011, at 9:00 a.m. between them. The thesis resulted in a magazine at M 12.5/K 20 at the and an on-line database showcasing new Kühne will give a public Artist Talk on Thursday, northeast corner of Franklin techniques. Today, Kühne is one of Europe’s most October 27, 2011, at 6:00 p.m. at the Center for and Washington in the heart of innovative and cutting edge designers and Book and Paper Arts, with a reception following. the Loop. letterpress printmakers. Working out of his studio He will conduct workshops at Columbia College babyinktwice (www.babyinktwice.ch) near Zurich, Chicago between October 25 and November 4, 47th Chicago International Film Festival—Swiss Film Switzerland, he produces letterpress posters, 2011. For more information, visit Goodbye Mandima: Short postcards, brochures and magazines for music, www.colum.edu/bookandpaper or see Calendar. film at AMC River East 2, art, theatre and film projects. His interest in Chicago. Friday, October 14, letterpress grew out of his internship in 2008 at The participation of Dafi Kühne in Wood Type, 2011, at 3:05 p.m. For more Hatch Show Print in Nashville (Tennessee). Evolved is in part supported by Pro Helvetia (Swiss information, please visit Arts Council), Zurich, Switzerland. www.chicagofilmfestival.com Swiss Sculptor Jean-Jacques Porret at Willis Tower: European Architecture at the Instituto Exhibition in the Willis Tower Lobby, 233 S. Wacker Drive, Cervantes Chicago Chicago. From mid October The exhibition 2011 European Union Prize for contribution of European professionals in the until the end of the year 2011. Contemporary Architecture—Mies van der Rohe development of new concepts and technologies. Also see www.jjporret.com Award is presented by the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago and will run from October 25 to In 2011, Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi was November 11, 2011 (www.chicago.cervantes.es.) It one of the six finalists for this prestigious is the first time that Europe’s premier prize for European Union award for contemporary contemporary architecture is on display in Chicago. architecture with the new Acropolis Museum in The exhibition is accompanied by a lecture series Athens, Greece (also see www.tschumi.com.) featuring prominent European and Chicago architects. The event is organized by Instituto Cervantes and MAS Studio in collaboration with the Fundació The Mies van der Rohe Award is an initiative of Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona, the Consulate the European Commission and organized by the General of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona (Spain). Consulate General of France, the Alliance It is a biennial prize to commend architectural Française and the Goethe Institut of Chicago and excellence and draw attention to the important with the support of the Consulates General of Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and Greece. MOSAIC/PAGE 3 European Jazz Meets Chicago with Hans-Peter Pfammatter Hans-Peter Pfammatter, piano, will perform at Wednesday, November 2, 2011 @ The Chicago the festival European Jazz Meets Chicago with cultural Center the Hans-Peter Pfammatter Trio together with Chicago musicians Keefe Jackson (reeds) and 6:30 p.m. Hans Peter Pfammatter Trio Jason Roebke (bass). The trio will open the festival (Switzerland) at the Preston Bradley Hall at Preston Bradley Hall in the Chicago Cultural 7:15 p.m. Gerard Lebik Group (Poland) at the Center on Wednesday, November 2, 2011, at 6:30 Claudia Cassidy Theater p.m. A total of ten performances with musicians 8:00 p.m. Franz Hautzinger Group (Austria) at the from ten different European countries will be Preston Bradley Hall presented on November 2 and 3, 2011. All 8:45 p.m. Sophia Domancich Trio (France) at the concerts are free and open to the public. This year Claudia Cassidy Theater marks the fifth edition of European Jazz Meets 9:30 p.m. Ab Baars Quartet (The Netherlands) at Chicago in concert with the Umbrella Music the Randolph St. Cafe Festival running from November 4 to 6, 2011. For details, see www.chicagoculturalcenter.org or Thursday, November 3, 2011 @ The Chicago www.umbrellamusic.org or Calendar. Cultural Center Pfammatter (1974) is a band leader, composer and 6:30 p.m. Jan Maksimowicz Group (Lithuania) at musician working with piano, synths and the Claudia Cassidy Theater electronics. He makes his home in Lucerne, 7:15 p.m. Ramon Lopez/Jim Baker Duo (Spain) at Switzerland, and frequently performs with his own the Preston Bradley Hall band or as sideman with different groups all over 8:00 p.m. Francesco Bigoni Trio (Italy) at the Switzerland, across Europe and in Asia. He has Claudia Cassidy Theater collaborated with Nicolas Thys, Fee Claasen, Tony 8:45 p.m. Sten Sandell Group (Sweden) at the Overwater, Fredy Studer and many more. In Preston Bradley Hall addition, he frequently performs solo concerts. In 9:30 p.m. Thomas Heberer Trio (Germany) at the 2009 Pfammatter was the resident of the Lucerne Randolph St. Cafe Artist Studio in Chicago. During that time, he expanded his connections with Chicago-based As part of his United States tour, Pfammatter will musicians and also joined the Lucerne Chicago also perform at Sugar Maple in Milwaukee on Connection. Pfammatter and the Lucerne Chicago November 6, 2011; at Myopic Bookstore and Connection played at the 36th Jazz Festival Williau, Hungry Brain in Chicago on November 7, 2011.