Schweizer Skulptur seit 1945

A massive survey

For the first time, the exhibition and catalogue provide a comprehensive overview of the wide range of sculptural work in Switzerland since 1945, with 230 works by 150 artists from all parts of the country. It begins with the advanced positions of the immediate post-war period, such as those of Jean Arp, Max Bill, Alberto Giacometti and Germaine Richier, but also presents "traditionalists" such as Karl Geiser and Remo Rossi, who were still decisive for the Swiss art scene at the time. From the post-war period, the differentiation of the diverse trends in art of the 1960s is then traced. Parallel to the pronounced development of iron sculpture, the new avant-gardes emerged at this time, such as "Nouveau Réalisme", which was decisively characterised by Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle and Daniel Spoerri. The plurality of styles continued to increase in the 1970s: construction, abstraction, conceptual dematerialisation, expressivity or inwardness - everything was now possible until, with an initial peak in the 1980s, the everyday broke into art and Fischli / Weiss or, subsequently, Sylvie Fleury conquered the international art scene with their works. Two different attitudes can be observed in the youngest generation: the (postmodern) desire to create out of the liberating realisation that all forms of sculpture have existed before, and a new interest in the material and its craftsmanship.

Artists:
Eva Aeppli, Maia Aeschbach, Hans Aeschbacher, Jürg Altherr, John Armleder, Jean Arp, Otto Charles Bänninger, Paolo Bellini, Raffael Benazzi, Ueli Berger, Daniel Berset, Max Bill, Vanessa Billy, Rudolf Blättler, Walter Bodmer, Serge Brignoni, Heidi Bucher, Carl Bucher, Valentin Carron, Davide Cascio, Julian Charrière, Claudia Comte, Louis Conne, Carlo Cotti, Martin Disler, Herbert Distel, Angel Duarte, Latifa Echakhch, Franz Eggenschwiler, Anton Egloff, Olivier Estoppey, Urs Fischer, Fischli / Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Annemie Fontana, Corsin Fontana, Urs Frei, Gunter Frentzel, Karl Geiser, Giovanni Genucchi, Charlotte Germann-Jahn, Alberto Giacometti, H.R. Giger, Stefan Gritsch, Michael Grossert, Mariann Grunder, Fabrice Gygi, Peter Hächler, Eric Hattan, Barbara Heé, Christian Herdeg, Thomas Hirschhorn, Gottfried Honegger, Schang Hutter, Leiko Ikemura, Hans Josephson, Zoltan Kemeny, Isabelle Krieg, James Licini, Walter Linck, Ingeborg Lüscher, Bernhard Luginbühl, Urs Lüthi, Christian Marclay, Rémy Markowitsch, Nicole Martin-Lachat, Sara Masüger, Silvio Mattioli, Jean Mauboulès, Christian Megert, Wilfrid Moser, Josef Felix Müller, Otto Müller, Robert Müller, Yves Netzhammer, Edit Oderbolz, Josef Maria Odermatt, Marianne Olsen, Meret Oppenheim, Flavio Paolucci, Erica Pedretti, Mai-Thu Perret, Carmen Perrin, Fred Perrin, Antoine Poncet, Gilles Porret, Václav Pozarek, Henri Presset, Markus Raetz, Augustin Rebetez, Peter Regli, Delphine Reist, Germaine Richier, Heiner Richner, Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Remo Rossi, Dieter Roth, Christian Rothacher, Nelly Rudin, Christoph Rütimann, Marguerite Saegesser, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Katharina Sallenbach, Lucie Schenker, Klaudia Schifferle, Albert Siegenthaler, Roman Signer, Kurt Sigrist, Matias Spescha, Daniel Spoerri, Jürg Stäuble, Anselm Stalder, Doris Stauffer, Gerda Steiner/Jörg Lenzlinger, Rosa Studer-Koch, Hugo Suter, André Thomkins, Jean Tinguely, Ben Vautier, Not Vital, Isabelle Waldberg, Aldo Walker, Hugo Weber, Thea Weltner, Gillian White, Oscar Wiggli, Eva Wipf, Andrea Wolfensberger, René Zäch, Beat Zoderer, Pierre-Alain Zuber and many more.many more

Exhibition:
Aarauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, 12/6 - 26/9/2021