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SWISS EVENTS

IN NEW YORK AND IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE U.S. for the period of November 26 – December 10, 2013

UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTS

Film | Music | Visual Arts | Architecture | Design | Coming Soon | Meanwhile in Switzerland

Dates, locations and ticket prices are subject to change. Please confirm before visiting events!

HIGHLIGHT

Tuesday, December 10 BEAT RICHNER + GEORGES GACHOT Deutsches Haus at NYU 6:30pm SWISS TALKS 42 Washington Mews New York, NY The second edition of Swiss Talks at www.deutscheshaus.as.nyu Deutsches Haus features acclaimed filmmaker Georges Gachot and celebrated RSVP Swiss doctor and cellist Beat Richner. [email protected] Gachot and Richner will discuss the content of Gachot’s film Beatocello’s Umbrella which documents Richner’s extraordinary work as founder and head of the five Children’s Hospitals Kantha Bopha in Cambodia since 1992 where 85% of all Cambodian children are treated free of charge and where every day 3500 sick children are cared for, 400 severely sick children are admitted for hospitalization, 60 deliveries occur, and 65 surgical operations are provided. The discussion will be moderated by Thomas Schneider, followed by a wine reception. Image: Dr. Beat Richner in Cambodia.

FILM

Monday, December 2 THE MISCREANTS African Diaspora Film Festival 6pm NY PREMIERE New York, NY www.nyadiff.org Tuesday, December 10 On the order of their spiritual leader, three 6pm young Islamists kidnap a group of actors who are about to go on tour with their latest show. When the kidnappers arrive at the place of detention, they find themselves cut off from their base. Ensues a 7-day no exit situation, in which both sides are forced to live together, confront each other and challenge their mutual prejudices. Image: The Miscreants directed by Mohcine Besri, Morocco/Switzerland, 2012, 88 min, Drama, Arabic/English subt.

Friday, December 6 RETURN TO GORÉE African Diaspora Film Festival 3pm FILM SCREENING New York, NY www.nyadiff.org Wednesday, December 11 A musical road movie, Return to Gorée 9:20pm follows Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour’s historical journey tracing the trail left by Saturday, December 14 slaves and the jazz music they created. 2pm Youssou N’Dour’s challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire of his own songs to perform a concert in Gorée, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to honor its victims. Image: Return to Goree, directed by Pierre- Yves Borgeaud, 2006, 108 min. Senegal / Switzerland / Luxembourg, Musical Documentary, Language, English / French with English subt.

Sunday, December 1 OBJECTION 6 African Diaspora Film Festival 2pm EUROPE SHORTS New York, NY www.nyadiff.org Tuesday, December 10 With amazing camera work putting you in the 2:35pm shoes of the lead character, Objection 6 tells the story of a deportation that happened in March 2010, which ended with the tragic death of an asylum seeker. Image: Objection 6, directed by Rolando Colla, 17 min., Drama, Germany / Switzerland, English.

Wednesday, December 4 RAPT 7:30pm FILM SCREENING 32 Second Avenue New York, NY Anthology Film Archives is pleased to www.anthologyfilmarchives.org present the film Rapt by Dimitri Kirsanoff on Wednesday, December 4 at 7:30 pm. Based on a novel by C.F. Ramuz, Rapt tells the story of ethnic, cultural, and religious tensions that divide a group of Swiss villagers. Besides its extraordinary visual sense, the film is known for its inspired use of sound. Image: Rapt, directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff 1934, 84 min, 35mm, black and white. In French with no subtitles; English synopsis available.

MUSIC

Mondays in November JOJO MAYER / NERVE Nublu Club CONCERTS 62 New York, NY Elecronica trio Jojo Mayer’s Nerve play www.nublu.net every Monday in November at Nublu Club in the East Village. Jojo Mayer is a Swiss drummer from Zurich who currently resides in New York City. Image: Jojo Mayer’s Nerve.

Wednesday, December 4 GREGOIRE MARET QUARTET Harlem Stage Gatehouse 7:30pm CONCERT 150 Convent Avenue New York, NY Gregoire Maret performs at Harlem Stage harlemstage.org with band Christian Sands, Ben Williams, and Terri Lyne Carrington. Gregoire Maret smashes the stereotype that the harmonica is to be played while gathered around a campfire. In the hands of this Geneva-born virtuoso, the instrument can be lyrical and lush or pungent and powerful. Maret’s soulful ballad interpretations and breathlessly swinging renditions of up-tempo favorites will certainly change the way you think about the harmonica. Maret has performed with jazz and pop greats, from Pat Metheny and Herbie Hancock to Youssou N’Dour and Meshell Ndegeocello. Image: Gregoire Maret. Monday, December 9 BEAT RICHNER Carnegie Hall 8pm BENEFIT CONCERT Weill Recital Hall New York, NY Doctor and cellist Beat Richner performs www.carnegiehall.org works by Bach, Bruch, and Casals and speaks about his work as founder and head of the five Kantha Bopha hospitals in Cambodia, where he provides free medical treatment to children. Image: Beat Richner photographed by Schweizer Illustrierte.

VISUAL ARTS

Wednesday, December 4 MAPNIFICENT! BRAC 6 – 8pm PERFORMANCE ART 305 East 140th Street # 1A Bronx, NY BRAC presents MAPnificent! Artists Use www.bronxriverart.org Maps with Swiss artists Marie Christine Katz and Viviane Rombaldi Seppey. View and interact with works created by 18 artists that feature contemporary works on paper, sculpture, video and installation performance. On Wednesday, December 4th Marie Christine Katz will begin her interactive performance Knitting, I Need You, that coincides with Bronx Culture Trolley Night. On Friday, December 20th BRAC will celebrate MAPnificent's closing with an End- of-Year Party that includes around the globe spinning by Bronx DJ Lightbolt and another performance by Marie Christine Katz. Image: Directions to BRAC on the block gallery as depicted by artist Yumi Roth.

Saturday, December 7 CONSERVATION AND ITS CONTEXT Institute of Fine Arts 10am MELLON RESEARCH CONFERENCE New York University 1 East 78th Street This session will examine the emerging New York, NY interactions between conservation and www.nyu.edu associated disciplines. Art history, archaeology, ethnography, and other RSVP disciplines are absorbing aspects of the docs.google.com theory, practice, and rhetoric of conservation while conservation does the same from those disciplines. This multi-disciplinary symposium will examine this trend in terms of present practice, as well as from a historical perspective. Speakers include Noémie Etienne, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Dr. Etienne holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Geneva and University of Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne, where she completed the dissertation The Restoration of Paintings in Paris (1750-1815).

Sunday, December 8 REMOTE CITIZEN 11am PERFORMANCE ART New York, NY www.remote-citizen.ch Up to 60 participants are directed and synchronized via wireless intercom, moving from one place to the other, guided by Christian Kuntner and Astride Schlaefli, two performance artists from Switzerland. Remote Citizen uses controlled intervention in crowded places to intensify, break, or reduce to absurdity any predominant dynamics. In this way, reality and staging seamlessly blend together. Following the successful previous 30 performances in 6 countries (Buenos Aires, Marseille, Istanbul, Munich, Yerevan, Zurich, Lucerne, Bern, Geneva...), the event is going to happen for the first time in the US!

Through December 13 HABEGGER AND PERREAZ Agora Gallery EXHIBITION 530 West 25th Street New York, NY The original work of two Swiss artists www.agora-gallery.com Isabelle Habegger and Samantha Perreaz (“SAM”) will be on display at Agora Gallery. The exhibition is scheduled to run from November 22, 2013 through December 13, 2013. The opening reception will be held on Thursday night, December 5, 2013 from 6-8 pm. Image: Isabelle Habegger, Impressions De Xi’an.

Through December 13 LIGHTNESS OF BEING City Hall Park EXHIBITION Lower Manhattan New York, NY The exhibition Lightness of Being brings www.publicartfund.org together the work of eleven international artists. It features sculptures of very different scales and materials, as well as a weekly performance. Significant recent works by senior figures such as Daniel Buren (b. 1938) and Franz West (1947 - 2012) are shown alongside pieces by emerging and mid-career artists including Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) and Olaf Breuning (b. 1970). Image: Olaf Breuning, The Humans, 2007.

Through December 21 OLIVIER MOSSET Cultural Services of the EXHIBITION French Embassy 972 Fifth Avenue Swiss artist Olivier Mosset presents New York, NY Exposition de Groupe at the Cultural www.frenchculture.org Services of the French Embassy from October 31 - November 21 and at The The Kitchen Kitchen from October 31 - December 21, 512 West 19th Street 2013. The exhibition includes an installation New York, NY of motorcycles and paintings, as well as a www.thekitchen.org video collaboration with Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler. The artist presents what he terms a group show, underscoring how the legibility of any artwork is possible only in the context of a larger and living collectivity. Curated by Sophie Claudel, Thomas Delamarre, and Tim Griffin. The opening reception will take place on Wednesday, October 30 from 6 – 8pm at The Kitchen. Image: Panhead © Olivier Mosset, Vincent Szarek, Jeffrey Schad.

Through January 11 HELMUT FEDERLE Peter Blum Gallery EXHIBITION 20 West 57th Street New York, NY Peter Blum Gallery is pleased to present www.peterblumgallery.com Helmut Federle’s The Ferner Paintings. Federle’s latest body of work created in 2012 and 2013 all represent one form: the circle. The paintings, each measuring 19 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches (50 x 40 cm), are executed using vegetable oil to stain the raw sand colored linen, resulting in muted rings of various widths and values hovering slightly above the center of each canvas. Image: Helmut Federle, Ferner J (Der Knochen), 2013, vegetable oil on canvas 19 5/8 x 15 3/4 in. (50 x 40 cm), Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York. Through January 12 BALTHUS – CATS AND GIRLS Metropolitan Museum of Art EXHIBITION 100 5th Avenue New York, NY Focusing on Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) www.metmuseum.org finest works, the exhibition Cats and Girls – Paintings and Provocations at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is limited to approximately thirty-five paintings dating from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Never before shown in public is the series of forty small ink drawings for Mitsou, in which the eleven- year-old Balthus evoked his adventures with a stray tomcat and which were published by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1921. This is the first US exhibition of the artist's works in thirty years. Image: Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) Thérèse, 1938.

Through January 12 DICKINSON / WALSER Drawing Center EXHIBITION 35 Wooster Street New York, NY This show brings together Emily Dickinson’s www.drawingcenter.org original poem manuscripts and Robert Walser’s microscripts for the first time in an art museum setting. Rarely in literature has the manner in which words are made been so integral to the way in which they might be read. The Dickinson / Walser exhibition, which proposes the notion that art may be used to make language, is a fitting corollary to Drawing Time, Reading Time, which appears concurrently in the Main Gallery. Curated by Claire Gilman. Image: Robert Walser, Microscript 419, 1927-28.

Through January 18 CHRISTIAN MARCLAY Paula Cooper Gallery EXHIBITION OPENING 534 West 21st Street New York, NY The Paula Cooper Gallery is pleased to www.paulacoopergallery.com present an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Christian Marclay. The exhibition consists of silk-screen on painted backgrounds, featuring onomatopoeias that evoke the sound of painting actions. Image: Christian Marclay, Actions: Plish Plip! Plap!!! Plop…(No.2), 2013; screenprint with hand painted acrylic, 37 7⁄8 × 49 in.

Through February 2 ALLYSON VIEIRA Swiss Institute EXHIBITION 18 Wooster Street New York, NY The Swiss Institute is please to present The www.swissinstitute.net Plural Present by artist Allyson Vieira. The exhibition will be on view from November 22, 2013 to February 2, 2014 and an opening reception will take place on Thursday, November 21 from 6 to 8 pm. Image: Allyson Vieira, The Plural Present.

Through March 16 2013 CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL Carnegie Museum of Art EXHIBITION 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA Presented every 3-5 years at Carnegie www.cmoa.org Museum of Art, the Carnegie International is among the leading exhibitions of contemporary art worldwide. Featuring hundreds of works by artists from around the globe, the 2013 International is a catalyst for new ways to present, experience, and think about art. The exhibition is organized by Swiss curator Daniel Baumann along with associate curators Dan Byers and Tina Kukielski and includes two workshop-based projects by Swiss artist Tobias Madison. Image: Tobias Madison, process documentation for the making of Workshop, 2013, video and installation. Photo: David D'Agostino.

ARCHITECTURE

Through February 2 CHRISTIAN WASSMANN Jewish Museum EXHIBITION 1109 5th Avenue New York, NY Studio Christian Wassmann presents an www.thejewishmuseum.org architectural structure in the form of a star tetrahedron as part of the New York-based fashion collective threeASFOUR’s latest project MER KA BA, an otherworldly installation that fuses avant-garde couture, architecture, and video projections. Image: threeASFOUR, in collaboration with Bradley Rothenberg; rendering of 3D-printed weave for MER KA BA, 2013 © threeASFOUR.

DESIGN

Through December 28 CÉCILE TRENTINI ArtQuilt Gallery NYC OPENING RECEPTION 133 West 25th Street New York, NY ArtQuilt Gallery NYC is pleased to present www.artquiltgallerynyc.com Daily Inspiration, an exhibition of quilts by www.cityquilter.com Swiss artist Cécile Trentini. Ms. Trentini will also be teaching a workshop at The City Quilter next door to ArtQuilt Gallery on Saturday, November 9 from 10:30 - 5:30pm and on Sunday, November 10 from 10 – 5pm. Image: Daily Beauty by Cécile Trentini.

COMING SOON

Friday, December 13 BEATOCELLO’S UMBRELLA Quad Cinema 8pm FILM SCREENING 34 West 13th Street New York, NY Acclaimed Swiss doctor and cellist Beat www.quadcinema.com (Beatocello) Richner and filmmaker Georges Gachot present the New York premiere of Gachot’s film Beatocello’s Umbrella which documents Richner’s extraordinary work as founder and head of the five Children’s Hospitals Kantha Bopha in Cambodia. Image: Film still, Beatocello’s Umbrella, Georges Gachot, 2012.

MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND WINTERTHUR JAMES WELLING: AUTOGRAPH NOVEMBER 11 – FEBRUARY 16, 2014

James Welling (*1951) operates in the hybrid ground between painting, sculpture, and traditional photography. For over 40 years he has explored issues of presentation and abstraction in his work, and is equally esteemed by critics, artists, and collectors as a central figure of international contemporary photography. The exhibition Autograph presents Welling’s documentary-style photographs in the tradition of classical art photography, as exemplified by Paul Strand. James Welling’s relentless examination of the conceptual and aesthetic foundations that shape and define the medium of photography make him an important role model for an entire generation of contemporary art photographers. His refusal to favor any one means of production informs the multifaceted oeuvre of this Los Angeles-based artist. Image: James Welling, IMPR, 2005. www.fotomuseum.ch

LAUSANNE MAKING SPACE: 40 YEARS OF VIDEO ART OCTOBER 18 – JANUARY 5, 2014

The exhibition Making Space at Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne suggests an unusual and novel way of looking at a medium that is most frequently associated with the recording of time and the staging of a story. Artists

include Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Judith Albert, Francis Alÿs, Emmanuelle Antille, René Bauermeister, Dara Birnbaum, Paul Chan, Silvie et Chérif Defraoui, VALIE EXPORT, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, Kimsooja, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Jean Otth, Nam June Paik, Anne-Julie Raccoursier, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Salla Tykkä, and Bill Viola. Image: Nam June Paik, Global Groove, 1973 (video still). Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. Acquisition 2013. Courtesy Studio Nam June Paik and EAI, New York www.musees.vd.ch

Contact :

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

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