Disegno disegni

Du 8 December 2023 au 14 April 2024

Vernissage le 7 December 2023

Avec Guerchin, Novelli, Piola, Tiepolo ou encore Zuccari, le dessin italien ancien et moderne est au coeur de l’exposition Disegno disegni. Dans le sillage du legs de René de Cérenville en 1968, qui faisait la part belle à la création graphique de la Péninsule, les fonds italiens du Musée Jenisch Vevey n’ont cessé de s’enrichir au fil des années, constituant aujourd’hui l’un des noyaux essentiels du patrimoine veveysan. Plus de 100 feuilles issues d’une collection particulière déposée au musée depuis 2003 sont mises en lumière pour l’occasion, dans un dialogue fécond avec les propres fonds de l’institution.

Les pièces ainsi réunies invitent à voyager à travers les grands centres artistiques d’Italie, de Venise à Rome, en passant par Bologne et Florence. Autant d’écoles à l’origine d’une production dessinée placée sous le signe de la diversité technique et matérielle. Sujets religieux et profanes, pages d’études et dessins autonomes célèbrent la pluralité qui caractérise le médium et ses multiples fonctions, entre la fin du XVe siècle et les premières décennies du XIXe siècle.

Une exposition sous le commissariat de Emmanuelle Neukomm et Pamella Guerdat, conservatrice et conservatrice adjointe Beaux-Arts, assistées de Leïla Thomas, collaboratrice scientifique.

Exposition placée sous le patronage de son Excellence Monsieur Gian Lorenzo Cornado, Ambassadeur d’Italie en Suisse

Galerie

Vues de l'exposition

Publication

XXL – Le dessin en grand

XXL – Le dessin en grand Autors: Nathalie Chaix, Pamella Guerdat and the 32 artists Musée Jenisch Vevey Editions, 160 pages Graphic design: Dimitri Jeannottat CHF 29.-

Vertige de la couleur

This richly illustrated volume features an introduction to color prints as well as several essays covering a highly fertile period in the history of printmaking. In the late nineteenth century, Paris was home to an extraordinary love affair with prints of all kinds—many artists, publishers, and printers devoted themselves to this art. Color was suddenly everywhere, becoming a factor in the revival of lithography nearly 100 years after the technique was invented.

Uwe Wittwer. Glass is cracking silently

Uwe Wittwer. Glass is cracking silently To mark the exhibition, a publication is being released, co-published by the Musée Jenisch Vevey and Hirmer Verlag (Munich). The book contains illustrations of all the works on display in the exhibition, as well as three essays that explore the symbolic and historical significance of Uwe Wittwer’s work. The volume concludes with an interview by Jacqueline Burckhardt, in which the artist reveals more about his career, his working methods and his sources of inspiration.

A conversation without words

On the occasion of the exhibition, a publication is being released, co-published by the Musée Jenisch Vevey, the Barbier-Mueller Museum Foundation, and Scheidegger & Spiess. Reproducing all the works featured in the exhibition, the book includes an essay retracing the history of the collection, along with several exclusive interviews with artists and key figures from the art world. Silvia Bächli, Spencer Finch, Michel Grillet, Alain Huck, Pieter Laurens Mol, Uwe Wittwer, and Pierre-Henri Jaccaud share their reflections on their connection to Thierry Barbier-Mueller.

Small Handbook of the Art of Drawing

The Musée Jenisch Vevey, which mainly collects and exhibits prints, owns thousands of works of unique quality, including etchings and drawings by Ferdinand Hodler, Félix Vallotton, Max Ernst and Hermann Hesse. This book presents a small selection of these extraordinary treasures; it is an ode to the perfect use of the draughtsman's style and to the masterly representation of movement. Small Handbook of the Art of Drawing Authors : Julie Enckell Julliard, Élisa de Halleux and Emmanuelle Neukomm Scheidegger & Spiess Verlag, Zurich, 240 pages, bilingual edition (French/German), 2016 CHF 29.-

Pietro Sarto – Chemins détournés

This book, which reproduces the works on display, is accompanied by a reflection on his approach to printmaking, painting and literature, commented on with extracts from recent interviews with the artist. Pietro Sarto - Chemins détournés Autors : Pietro Sarto and Florian Rodari Coedition La Dogana and Fondation William Cuendet & Atelier de Saint-Prex, 88 pages CHF 20.-

Kokoschka. Animaux totems

Author: Aglaja Kempf Fondation Oskar Kokoschka Editions, 60 pages CHF 20.–

Impressions of Japan

In 2015, the Musée Jenisch Vevey received a bequest comprising over 2,000 colour Japanese prints (ukiyo-e), most of which were created by the most renowned artists of the Utagawa school, active between 1765 and 1930. These works, with their refined printing techniques, vibrant colours and rich detail, are distinguished above all by their exceptional state of preservation.

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Gardiens du silence

Gardiens du silence CHF 35.-

Frédéric Cordier. 2010-2022

Frédéric Cordier. 2010-2022 Against the backdrop of this remarkable artistic career, *Frédéric Cordier. 2010–2022* was published in 2023. This is the first monograph dedicated to the artist, published by art&fiction in Lausanne. Edited by Laurence Schmidlin, the book traces twelve years of graphic work and is, in itself, an object that reflects the artist’s engraved work. Bilingual in French and English, it brings together texts by Ji-Yoon Han, Sylvain Menétrey and Laurence Schmidlin across nearly 200 pages and will be available for purchase at the bookshop and gift shop of the Musée Jenisch Vevey for the duration of the exhibition Frédéric Cordier. Mécanique du paysage.

Ferdinand Hodler. Valentine

Ferdinand Hodler. Valentine Autors: Pierre Rosenberg, Vincent Barras, Diana Blome, Marine De Toro, Margaux Farron, Mélinda Fleury, Niklaus Manuel Güdel, Caroline Guignard, Cécile Oppliger, Anne-Sophie Poirot and Coralie Traube Les Cahiers dessinés, Paris, Institut Ferdinand Hodler and Musée Jenisch Vevey Editions Two volumes, French CHF 90.–

Astrid de La Forest – Figures du vivant

Neither a monograph in the strict sense of the word, nor a catalogue raisonné of the artist’s oeuvre, the book accompanying the exhibition was conceived as a conversation between two sensitivities seeking to better understand the secrets of expression thanks to the prestige of ink. This conversation relies on the words that sprang from the writer’s pen and on the images engraved and printed by the artist. Co-edition Snoeck and Fondation William Cuendet & Atelier de Saint-Prex French, 176 pages, 118 illustrations, bound, 21 x 28 cm Sales price: CHF 35.–

Art cruel

Art cruel Autors: Claire Stoullig, Luc Lang, Sophie Daull and Yves Ravey Co-edition Musée Jenisch Vevey and Snoeck Editions, Paris CHF 36.– / CHF 30.– with the museum admission ticket

Albert Chavaz. A painter’s approach

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue that follows in the footsteps of the catalogues co-published with La Dogana, devoted to Jean Lecoultre (2021) and Pietro Sarto (2022). The publication offers several perspectives on Albert Chavaz, with the main text written by art historian Louis Deltour. It paints a portrait of the artist, tracing his artistic career, his work and his aesthetic research. The exhibition's curator, Julie Eggel, looked at Chavaz's engraving work, from his first solo attempts with drypoint and linocut in the 1950s, to the aquatints and lithographs produced with members of the Atelier de Saint-Prex from the 1970s onwards. Finally, an interview with the artist's children looks at their childhood memories of their artist father and the foundation they created in his name.

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