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SWISS EVENTS

IN NEW YORK AND IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE U.S. for the period of September 12 – 26, 2012

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HIGHLIGHT

Thursday, September 20 FERDINAND HODLER Neue Galerie EXHIBITION OPENING 1048 Fifth Avenue New York, NY Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity will be the www.neuegalerie.org largest American exhibition ever devoted to this major Swiss artist. Hodler was admired by such Austrian artists as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, whose work is essential to the Neue Galerie collection. The organizing curator for the Neue Galerie is Jill Lloyd, a distinguished scholar who has assembled several important shows for the museum, including Van Gogh and Expressionism. The exhibition is co-organized by the Fondation Beyeler, Basel, where it will be on view from January 27 to May 26, 2013. Image: Ferdinand Hodler, Self-Portrait, 1916.

FILM

Saturday, September 22 TINGUELY Howard Gilman Theater 4:15pm FILM SCREENING Lincoln Center 144 West 65th Street Everything is in movement—immobility New York, NY doesn’t exist. So went the credo of Jean www.filmlinc.com Tinguely, one of the most popular, and influential, sculptors of the 20th century. This long-overdue portrait of Tinguely traces his development from his boyhood in Switzerland to his crucial stay in in the early 1950s, as well as his encounters with surrealism, pop art and arte povera. Image: Tinguely directed by Thomas Thümena, Switzerland, 2011. In French, German and English with English subtitles.

MUSIC Friday, September 21 BEAT KAESTLI Somethin’ Jazz Club 7pm JAZZ 212 East 52nd Street www.somethinjazz.com Wednesday, September 26 Hear Beat Kaestli perform live at Somethin’ 8:30pm Jazz Club together with Elisabeth Lohninger, Magos Herrera, Melissa Stylianou (voice), Casa Mezcal Jamie Reynolds (piano) with a yet to be 86 Orchard Street announced special guest. You can also catch New York, NY Kaestli at Casa Mezcal with Camila Meza www.casamezcalny.com (guitar/vocals), Yoshi Waki (bass) and Felix Lecaros (drums) on Wednesday, September 26. Image: Beat Kaestli

Saturday, September 22 ELIANE AMHERD Somethin’ Jazz Club 7pm JAZZ, BRAZILIAN, LATIN 212 East 52nd Street www.somethinjazz.com See Eliane Amherd and band perform a blend of Jazz, Brazilian and Latin music at Somethin’ Jazz Club on Saturday, September 22. Image: Eliane Amherd © Thomas Andenmatten

VISUAL ARTS

Wednesday, September 12 ANNELISE STRBA AND ADRIAN SCHIESS Jason McCoy Gallery 6 – 8pm OPENING RECEPTION 41 East 57th Street New York, NY Jason McCoy Gallery is pleased to present a www.jasonmccoyinc.com collaboration between the Swiss artists Annelies Strba and Adrian Schiess. The project, which was originally sparked by an exhibition at the Museum Langmatt in Baden, Switzerland in 2011, remains ongoing. Image: Untitled, pigment print and watercolor.

Wednesday, September 12 JOHN ARMLEDER Swiss Institute 6 – 8pm OPENING RECEPTION 18 Wooster Street New York, NY Swiss Institute proudly presents Selected www.swissinstitute.net Furniture Sculptures 1979–2012, the first New York solo show of John Armleder in eight years. The exhibition features highlights of an open chapter in the Swiss artist’s oeuvre, showcasing the breadth and vision of the furniture sculptures from 1979 to the present. Curated by Gianni Jetzer. Image: John Armleder, Untitled, 1990

Thursday, September 13 H.A. SIGG Godwin-Ternbach Museum 6 – 8pm THE LEGACY: A RETROSPECTIVE Queens College, CUNY OPENING RECEPTION Flushing, NY www.qcpages.qc.cuny.edu H.A. Sigg's elegant abstract paintings engage in a mysterious and mystical Click here to RSVP for the dialogue between the forces of nature and opening reception on his inner meditations. A strong awareness of September 13. the artist's hand in brushwork and gesture places him firmly within the traditions of Click here for the online Abstract Expressionism and European post- catalogue. war abstraction, recalling but powerfully revising those practices, to fuse Asian and Western traditions. The exhibition, curated by Amy H. Winter, will be on view until Oct. 26. Image: H.A. Sigg, Green Room Thursday, September 13 THOMAS HIRSCHHORN Gladstone Gallery 6 – 8pm EXHIBITION OPENING 530 W. 21st Street New York, NY Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of Concordia, Concordia by Thomas Hirschhorn. The exhibition will feature a large-scale work inspired by the sinking of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the coast of in January 2012. Image: Thomas Hirschhorn, Concordia, Concordia

Friday, September 14 ALEXANDER HAHN Harvestworks 7 – 9pm OPENING RECEPTION 596 Broadway # 602 New York, NY Based in New York and Zurich, Alexander (212) 431 – 1130 Hahn is a pioneering electronic media artist. www.harvestworks.org Hahn’s video Cao Chang Di Road On November 24, 2009 I Stood There Waiting and other works will be on view at the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center until September 16th, 2012. Image: Alexander Hahn, ON

Saturday, September 15 TIMELINE: WORK IN PUBLIC SPACE Dia:Chelsea EXHIBITION OPENING 541 West 22nd Street New York, NY Dia Art Foundation will present a new work www.diaart.org by Thomas Hirschhorn, Timeline: Work in Public Space at the site of the future Dia:Chelsea project space. Timeline, a large- scale collage of images, written statements, and text excerpts, chronicles the artist’s interventions at urban and rural sites. It will be presented in anticipation of Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument, the fourth and final project of Hirschhorn's Monument series, that Dia will present in summer 2013 in New York. Image: Thomas Hirschhorn, Plan Moi

Saturday, September 15 THOMAS HIRSCHHORN + HAL FOSTER Dia:Chelsea 6:30pm ARTIST TALK 541 West 22nd Street New York, NY In conjunction with Thomas Hirschhorn’s www.diaart.org Timeline: Work in Public Space, a conversation between art historian Hal Foster and the artist will relaunch Dia’s Discussions in Contemporary Culture series. This ongoing series will invite distinguished and diverse artists, scholars, journalists, and historians to engage in a critical debate on current conditions, preoccupations, and explorations occurring in contemporary artistic practice that parallel the culture at large. Dia had previously presented Discussions in Contemporary Culture from 1983–95 in Chelsea. Image: Thomas Hirschhorn, La Série des Antalgiques (Spedifen), 2005

Through September 16 RESTRUCTURING SIGNS AND SYMBOLS Thompson Giroux Gallery EXHIBITION 57 Main Street Chatham, NY Thompson Giroux Gallery is pleased to www.thompsongirouxgallery.com present a new exhibition featuring the works of Marcel Bova, John Cleater, Michael McKay, Carleen Sheehan, Ned Snider, and Swiss artist Helen Suter. Image: Helen Suter, Shadow Hourglass an American Mandala Through September 30 GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE New Museum EXHIBITION 235 Bowery New York, NY Ghosts in the Machine surveys the constantly www.newmuseum.org shifting relationship between humans, machines, and art. Occupying the Museum’s three main galleries, the exhibition examines artists’ embrace of and fascination with technology, as well as their prescient awareness of the ways in which technology can transform subjective experiences. Featuring artists Fischli & Weiss, Karl Gestner and many more. Image: Henrik Olesen, The Body is a Machine, 2010.

Through October 28 NIC HESS Swiss Institute INSTALLATION 18 Wooster Street New York, NY Commissioned by Swiss Institute, Nic Hess www.swissinstitute.net has designed a site-specific mural which begins on façade and extends outward to encompass the rolling screen shutter. This strategy maximizes all possible surface area and presents viewable art during the daytime as well as evening hours.

ARCHITECTURE

Through January 28 BORN OUT OF NECESSITY MoMA EXHIBITION 11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019 The project www.architectureandvision.com

DesertSeal from the permanent collection of the MoMA New York is on display again this year in the show Born out of Necessity. DesertSeal is an iconic by Architecture and Vision, an architecture and design practice established by the Italian architect Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect . The exhibition is organized by , Senior Curator, and Kate Carmody, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design. Image: DesertSeal

COMING SOON

September 28 - 30 THE NY ART BOOK FAIR MoMA PS1 BOOK FAIR 22 – 25 Jackson Avenue Long Island City Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Queens, NY Fair is the world's premier event for artists’ www.nyartbookfair.com books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by more than 250 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from over twenty countries. Check the official NY Art Book Fair website for a complete list of Swiss publishers. Image: MoMA PS1, NY Art Book Fair

MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND BASEL ARTE POVERA. THE GREAT AWAKENING SEPTEMBER 9 – FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Kunstmuseum Basel presents Arte Povera. The Great Awakening featuring works by Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, and Michelangelo Pistoletto. The hallmark of their art is the use of simple means and humble materials like soil, glass, tree branches, neon lighting, or wax. Their works contrast with, and articulate a critique of, an environment ever more dominated by technology and the production mechanisms of mass culture. Image: Mario Merz, Igloo, 1984 and 1992 www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch

ZURICH ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 20 – 30, 2012

The Zurich Film Festival began in October 2005 and quickly became firmly established in the national and international festival landscape and continues to grow rapidly. In 2011, more than 50'000 visitors and 507 accredited journalists attended the screenings. This year’s guests of honor include Richard Gere, John Travolta, producer Jerry Weintraub and director Tom Tykwer. For a complete list of film screenings please visit the Zurich Film Festival website. Image: Richard Gere in American Gigolo. This film will be shown during the Zurich Film Festival. www.zff.com

Contact :

Contact: Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, Cultural Department: [email protected]

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