Julie Enckell Julliard Knihy

First monograph on Caroline Bachmann, one of Switzerland's foremost contemporary artists and 2022 laureate of Switzerland's Prix Meret Oppenheim for art. Text in English and French.

A founding member of Swiss artists collective M/2, Alain Huck works across media, including painting, drawing, video, and photography. The subject of critical and commercial acclaim, his ambitious Salons Noirs series consists of eighty large-scale charcoal drawings characterized by the superimposition of images atop one another, contributing to a captivating blurred effect. Alain Huck: Les Salons Noirs presents the Salons Noirs series in its entirety and alongside a selection of recent works by Huck, placing this most recent series in the context of his broader body of work and shedding light on his artistic technique and creative process. In addition to affording new ways of approaching Salons Noirs and Huck's broader body of work, the book also compares Huck's work with that of other artists such as Albrecht Durer, Arnold Bocklin, Robert Longo, and Gerhard Richter.

This lavish publication presents Nestlé's corporate art collection, which is located in Vevey and nestled in the landmark building created by Jean Tschumi in the late 1950s. Published on the occasion of the company's 150th anniversary, it brings together more than 100 works, a specially commissioned photo-reportage by Christian Riis Ruggaber on in situ pieces, several interviews with figures who were, at one point or another, associated with the collection, and a unique archive of realized and unrealized projects by Bruce Nauman, Sol LeWitt, Ulrich Rückriem, Per Kirkeby, and Ellsworth Kelly. Julie Enckell Julliard, the current curator, also traces the history of the acquisitions and compares its politics to those of other private structures, while Bernard Tschumi offers insights on how and why his father's construction was probably the first artwork of the Collection. With works ranging from Ferdinand Hodler to contemporary artists such as Ante Timmermans, Ulla von Branderburg, as well as Olivier Mosset, Guy de Cointet, and Fischli/Weiss, the Collection displays a trope of quality, formal decisiveness, and spans centuries as if they were only decades. Published with Nestlé S. A., Vevey.

Seit 2014 ist das Musée Jenisch Vevey im Besitz von über 600 Arbeiten auf Papier Ferdinand Hodlers, die es als Schenkung des Sammlers Rudolf Schindler erhielt. Dadurch ist das Museum zu einem Zentrum der Hodler-Forschung geworden. Im Sommer 2015 wird eine grosse Auswahl aus diesem Schatz nun erstmals in einer Ausstellung gezeigt. Diese gleichzeitig erscheinende Publikation präsentiert ebenfalls erstmalig einen Einblick in den Bestand dieser bisher unveröffentlichten Sammlung in Buchform. Von der schnellen Skizze bis zur im Atelier vollendeten Figurenzeichnung erlauben die Blätter einen Blick auf den kreativen Prozess des Künstlers. Zugleich verdeutlicht das Buch die zentrale Rolle, welche die Zeichnung in Hodlers Gesamtwerk spielte. Abgerundet wird der Band durch Essays ausgewiesener Experten über die Sammlung Schindler, zu einzelnen Werken Hodlers und zur internationalen Vernetzung des Künstlers.

Born in 1976, the Belgian artist Ante Timmermans, based in Ghent and Zurich, is one of the most active figures of the contemporary drawing scene. Using very simple techniques for his drawings, which are almost entirely black and white, and obsolete technology in his installations (record players, overhead projectors, etc.), he serves as an accurate eyewitness of our modern times. He notably focuses on issues surrounding the nature/culture debate, and the representation of the modern city as a ghost city, a landscape of numerous skyscrapers, a no-man's land. Both poetically ironic and disenchanted, his work is also a meditation on the pregnancy of language and words in our lives. * * Published on the occasion of his exhibitions at Musée Jenish, Vevey, and Kunstmuseum St-Gallen, this book is the first monograph on Ante Timmermans' work. It brings together emblematic drawings and installations from each series made by the artist since the beginning of the 2000s, as well as an essay by Julie Enckell Julliard, Contemporary and Modern Art Curator at Musée Vevey, and an interview with the Kunstmuseum St-Gallen curator Konrad Bitterli. *

For many decades drawing has occupied a central position within artists' practices in Switzerland. If the medium was connected to a conceptual strain in the 1970s, it was its link with painting and personal expression that made it a subject of many exhibitions in the 1980s. In the 1990s and the 2000s it both revived classic formats and developed through new techniques and spatial possibilities. * * This publication, realized with the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, an institution dedicated to the study and conservation of works on paper since the 2000s, attempts to map the new contours of this medium in the 21st century, through the presentation of contributions by more than 40 artists and ten writers, all active in Switzerland. * * Awarded in the competition „The most beautiful Swiss books 2010.“