Exhibitions
Michel Sima – Genius in the Studio
17 February to 7 May 2017
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography
curated by Dr. Kuno Fischer & Alisa Labas
Michel Sima’s work with photographic portraits of artists
began essentially in 1946. That year Sima followed the creative process for Pablo Picasso’s La joie de vivre. In doing so he not only documented the various stages in the artistic execution (as
was his original intention), but also considered his work from the very outset as a holistic, personal representation of the artist and his oeuvre. In the following years, he portrayed nearly all
the artists at the École de Paris, artists such as Henri Matisse, François Picabia, Ossip Zadkine, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Cocteau, Tal Coat, Jean Arp, Marie Laurencin, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst,
Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, André Derain, Kees van Dongen, Le Corbusier, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, and Alexander Calder.
More about the artist Michel Sima
„Auflösung einer Basler Privatsammlung“
Mid September until mid December 2016
Art works of the 20th c., e.g. by A.R. Penck, Kees van Dongen, Paul Wunderlich, Cuno Amiet, Marino Marini, Henri Matise, André Derain and Luciano Castelli.
Alois Lichtsteiner - "MALEREI AUF DEM GRAT"
26 February until 1 April 2016
an exhibition showing four decades
in cooperation with a collector
Invitation (in German)
Talk between artist and art expert (in German)
A Swiss private collection - modern & contemporary art
13 until 27 March 2015
With works of art by Cuno Amiet, Karel Appel, Horst Antes, Francis Bott, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Paul Delvaux, Julien Dupre, Georges D'Espagnat, Hans Erni,
Leonor Fini, François Gall,George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Ferdinand Hodler, Wassily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Henri Charles Manguin, Marevna, Georges Mathieu, Henri Matisse, Joan Mirò,
Elisabeth G. Müller, A.R. Penck, James Rosenquist, Carl Spitzweg, Jean Tinguely, Mark Tobey, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Otto Tschumi, Paul Wunderlich
FISCHER at GSTAAD PALACE 2014
27 til 30 December 2014
With works of art by Joan Miró, Ben Nicholson, André Lanskoy, Fernand Léger, Maurice Estève, Sam Francis, Samuel Buri, Alois Lichtsteiner, Jean Tinguely, Mark
Tobey, Michel Sima, Maxime Maufra, Louis Valtat, Augusto Giacometti
Josef Staub - Sculptures & Collages
14 March til 30 April 2014
The exhibition shows a selection of typical, since the 1970s designed geometrical-abstract sculptures made of dressed chrome steel. Nearly every artwork is unique. Additionally it will be documentated how Josef Staub has designed and realized his sculptures with patience, perfection and with ease. In aesthetic contrast to the sculptures made of chrome steel are the drafts and collages made of several materials, which will be presented at the same time.
Fischer at Gstaad Palace 2013
28/29/30 December 2013
Lucerne Art Summer 2013 - Pascal Danz / Reto Camenisch
12 until 23 August 2013
An exhibtion during th Lucerne Festival
in cooperation with Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern
Pascal Danz in brief (in German)
Reto Camenisch in brief (in German)
Fischer at Gstaad Palace 2012
28/29/30 Dezember 2012
Exhibition of modern art with works by Pablo Picasso, Marino Marini, Joan Miró, Le Corbusier, Alexej von Jawlensky, Fernand Léger, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gino Severini, Serge Poliakoff, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Tinguely, Michel Sima, etc.
Lucerne Art Summer 2012 - International modern and contemporary
art
6 til 24 August 2012 (works by Tinguely until 5 October
2012)
with works of art by the following artists: Josef Albers, Joseph Beuys, Alke Brinkmann, Samuel Buri, Geneviève Claisse, Walter Dexel, Theo Eble, El Bocho, Rainer Fetting, Albert Gleizes, Keith
Haring, Wassily Kandinsky, Anselm Kiefer, František Kupka, Richard Paul Lohse, Elisabeth G. Müller, A. R. Penck, Dieter Roth, Theodoros Stamos, Jean Tinguely, Mark Tobey, Günther Uecker, Victor
Vasarely
By Jean Tinguely the following works of arts will be shown: „Shuttlecock“ (1988), the side cars of the seasons 1989, 1990 and 1991, two decorated racing suits, seven paintings and documentations.
James Licini - Steel art
9 December 2011 til 16 March 2012
James Licini (born in Zurich in 1937) forms abstract sculptures of steel.
James Licini in brief (in German)
Lucerne Art Summer 2011 - International modern & contemporary art - topic: NIGHT
8 til 19 August 2011
Lucerne Art Summer 2010 - International modern & contemporary art - topic: EROS
7 til 21 August 2010
With works of art by Karel Appel, Vanessa Beecroft, Erwin Blumenfeld, Pierre Bonnard, Alexander Sandy Calder, Robert Combas, Edgar Degas, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst, Franz Gertsch, Georg Grosz, Ernst Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, André Lhote, Henri Matisse, Jonathan Messe, Otto Müller, Hermann Nitsch, Max Pechstein, A.R. Penck, Pablo Picasso, Neo Rauch, Auguste Rodin, Ugo Rondinone, Dieter Roth, Niki de Saint Phalle, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Gino Severini, Michel Sima, Daniel Spoerri, Li Tianbing, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
"Welcome back home, Luciano!"
December 2009 til February 2010
Luciano Castelli is one of the most important contemporary Swiss artist. All works presented in this exhibition come from a Swiss private collection.
Luciano Castelli in brief (in German)
Lucerne Art Summer 2009 - Modern & Contemporary Art
13 til 23 August 2009
in cooperation with Barr & Ochsner GmbH and Silvan Faessler Fine Art GmbH
International modern & contemporary art including works of art by Hans Arp, Georg Baselitz, Georges Braque, Heinrich Campendonk, Luciano Castelli, Martin Disler, Lyonel Feininger, Alberto Giacometti, Giovanni Giacometti, Ferdinand Hodler, Alexei von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Jannis Kounellis, Fernand Léger, Lucebert, Henri Manguin, Joan Miró, Gabriele Münter, Emil Nolde, A.R. Penck, Pablo Picasso, Daniel Spoerri, Not Vital, Marianne von Werefkin, Tom Wesselmann, Walter Kurt Wiemken, Ossip Zadkine
MICHEL SIMA - Artistes en Atelier, Geneva
2 April til 2 May 2009
in cooperation with Galerie Latham
for more information check the previous
exhibition
Michel Sima - Artists in the studio, St. Moritz
6 December 2008 til 24 January 2009
in cooperation with Galerie Bergmann & Bauer
Michel Sima’s work with photographic portraits of artists began essentially in 1946. That year Sima followed the creative process for Pablo Picasso’s La joie de vivre. In doing so he not only documented the various stages in the artistic execution (as was his original intention), but also considered his work from the very outset as a holistic, personal representation of the artist and his oeuvre. In the following years, he portrayed nearly all the artists at the École de Paris, artists such as Henri Matisse, François Picabia, Ossip Zadkine, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Cocteau, Tal Coat, Jean Arp, Marie Laurencin, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, André Derain, Kees van Dongen, Le Corbusier, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, and Alexander Calder.
Christoph Steinemann STONEMAN - Comic Abstraction
1 til 11 July 2008
Christoph Steineman's work can be divided into digital paintings, moving paintings and sculptures. His digital paintings are a fusion of photography, digital image editing, painting and drawing.
In a work-intensive process photographs are fragmentized, re-edited and put together again in a new screen like a kind of collages. The final layer in the process, the abstract figures, play a
central role as to comment and communicate with the background. This intuitive process transforms the photographs out of their digital image anonymity into something very personal, condensing
reality, chaotic emotions and design austerity into archaic multilevel dimensions. The seemingly decorative and flat picture pulls the viewer into its depths pulsating with stories of lives and
desires.
Steinemann created his first moving paintings in 1992. They are painted on a sliding, continuous canvas he specifically developed. So, like a conveyor belt, they move by the viewer, displaying
ever-changing, new images and colour compositions. His moving paintings' main features are the colours - intense, striking and expressive.
Stoneman specifically uses limits, lines and regular areas to transpose the drawing, the line, into plastic paintings. He bends a line into the third dimension by sheer physical force sometimes.
Clearly that's what happened to his colour stick figures; they are bent steel tubes, figures out of stoneman's paintings come to life. Christoph Steinemann's work shows a new topology of comic
abstraction to address perplexing issues.
Christoph Steineman's works form part of several private collections and have been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Zurich, Montreux, Berlin, Milan, Florence and Bermudas (only to mention a
few).
Michel Sima (1912-1987) - Artists in the studio
7 til 21 December 2007 & 7 til 18 January 2008
Michel Sima’s work with photographic portraits of artists began essentially in 1946. That year Sima followed the creative process for Pablo Picasso’s La joie de vivre. In doing so he not only documented the various stages in the artistic execution (as was his original intention), but also considered his work from the very outset as a holistic, personal representation of the artist and his oeuvre. In the following years, he portrayed nearly all the artists at the École de Paris, artists such as Henri Matisse, François Picabia, Ossip Zadkine, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Cocteau, Tal Coat, Jean Arp, Marie Laurencin, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, André Derain, Kees van Dongen, Le Corbusier, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, and Alexander Calder. Sima’s underlying affinity towards, and friendship with, those portrayed shone through in all of these artists’ portraits, not just in the photographs of Picasso. It expressed itself by capturing most sensitively the personality and work of each particular artist. The relationship established with both the work and the studio as part of his setup is also cleverly used to allow the portrayed artist to express himself, as it were. The result is an idiosyncratic style of (artist) portraiture using the medium of photography, a unique documentation of the artists at the École de Paris, unequalled by any other photographer in its cohesiveness and sensitivity. Dr. Kuno Fischer (The Monograph Michel Sima - Artists in their Studio (Dr. Erika Billeter/Dr. Kuno Fischer), Benteli Verlag 2007)
Mersad Berber - Recent wokrs
8 December 2001 til 25 January 2002
Karina Wisniewska - Colors and sounds
16 August til 14 September 2001
Walter Ropélé
10 June til 3 July 1999
Jungfrau, Muse Heldin - Exhibition with 20 paintings from the 17th/18th century (in cooperation
with Walpole Gallery, London)
15 January til 27 February 1998
André Derain - Bronze sculptures and works on paper
15 January til 28 February 1998
Luciano Castelli - "Le Miroir du Désir", Photography and Paintings from 1973 til
1996
23 March til 26 April 1997
Gisela Andersch - Works preseting three working phases
28 February til 10 April 1997
Hans Hartung - Antoni Tapiès
6 December 1996 til 19 January 1997
François Bocion
9 November til 20 December 1996
„Le paysage est représentatif de l’art moderne, la marque caractéristique de notre siècle“ constate en 1867 Telemaco Signorini, ami de Degas, porte-parole et figure marquante des Macchiaili, ces paysagistes qui forment à Florence un groupe d’avant-garde. Or si l’impressionnisme français tend, dans l’esprit de l’amateur, à occuper toute la scène où se joue l’histoire du paysage au XIXe siècle, une ample floraison d’oeuvres témoignent ailleurs d’une recherché analogue: partout en Europe, à des degrés divers et à des moments différents, nuance des particularismes locaux, se manifeste un vaste renouvellement de la vision picturale. Ce qui la caractérise : la volonté de rendre compte avec fidélité du réel, d’où la prééminence donnée à la pratique du plein air et le développement d’une nouvelle technique picturale, la «pittura a macchia» des Florentines, le pré-impressionnisme des Barbizonnais, la division des tons des Impressionnistes. (...) Béatrice Aubert-LeCoultre
Felix Vallotton - Woodcuts
11 September til 19 October 1996
Kiki Kogelnik
17 September til 10 November 1996
The Chicago Athenaeum / Museum of Architecture and Design
Walter Ropélé
18 August til 9 September 1996
Eine Künstlerfreundschaft: Bodmer, Huber und Kündig
Frühling 1996
Hansjörg Brunner - Paintings and works on paper
1 December 1995 til 20 January 1996
Albert Anker
Dezember 1995 bis Januar 1996
Old masters and modern paintings (Exhibition during the international music festival and the 175th
anniversary of the Kunstgesellschaft Lucerne)
Sommer 1994
Max Eichenberger - Concret works 1981-1988
11 January til 8 February 1991
Sales exhibition - Paintings, works on paper, tapestries
18 March til 9 April 1988
With works by Maria Sybilla Merian and her daughter Johanna Helena Herold, Jacques Linard, Karl Kulius von Leypold, Albert Zimmermann, Joseph Wopfner, Alois Kölbl Anton Ebert, Robert Zünd, Jakob Joseph Zelger, Félix Vallotton, René Victor Auberjonois, Rodolphe-Théophile Bossard, Albert Gleizes, August Herbin, Theo Eblé and Fernand Léger.
Abstraction Création - Meister der gegenstandslosen Kunst
Sommer 1987
Sales exhibition
Spring 1987
Pioneers of the New Swiss Art - 50 years Swiss art since 1920
9 August til 10 September 1986
"Tableaux Anciens de grands Maîtres"
23 March til 30 September 1957
Opening exhibition of the Galerie Fischer, Lucerne
August - September 1940
Paintings of the 19th and 20th century
With works of art by: BARLACH, Ernst; BÖCKLIN, Arnold; BUCHSER, Frank; CALAME, Alexandre; CORINTH, Lovis; COURBET, Gustave; DAUMIER, Honoré; DEGAS, Edgar; DELACROIX, Eugène; DESCHWANDEN, Paul; FEUERBACH, Anselm; FORAIN, Jean-Louis; FÜSSLI, Johann Heinrich; GUILLAUMIN, Jean-Baptiste-Armand; HODLER, Ferdinand; HOFER, Carl; KAUFFMANN, Angelika; KOKOSCHKA, Oskar; KÜHL, Gotthard Johann; LEIBL, Wilhelm; LIEBERMANN, Max; MACLET; MAILLOL, Aristide; MARC, Franz; MAREES, Hans von; MENN, Barthélemy; MONET, Claude; MORISOT, Berthe; NOLDE, Emil; PISSARRO, Camille; RAFFAELLI, Jean-François; RENOIR, Auguste; RITZ, Raphael; ROBERT, Léopold; RODIN, Auguste; ROHLFS, Christian; SCHUCH, Karl; SEGANTINI, Giovanni; SIEGWART, Hugo; SISLEY, Alfred; STEFFAN, Johann Gottfried; STUCK, Franz von; TASSAERT, Nicoles-François-Octave; THOMA, Hans; TRÜBNER, Wilhelm; VAUTIER, Benjamin; VOLTZ, Friedrich Johann; ZÜND, Robert