The relationship to South Africa and its art is of great interest to the manageress of the gallery. Her friendship with the exhibiting artists makes it possible to present these artists, which are not very well known in Switzerland as yet. Worthy of being mentioned here are the artists Catherine Paynther and Jan Visser, who are not only known in South Africa, but enjoy international recognition.

 Liza Prager-Wiese, who assisted in organising this exhibition and was represented herself with various artworks, could not keep herself any longer outside the 'aura' of the art.  Her first exhibition in Equyere / South of France proved, that she doesn't only have a close relationship with music.

The Gallery offered a Christmas bazaar during the course of this exhibition. Here you could find anything from arts and crafts to Christmas decorations and may other charming goodies, which lighten up the dark days before Christmas. 

 "Vivre l'Art"

1st February to 3rd March  2001

Gianni Vasari (Switzerland)

Sculptures, Paintings, Photography and Installations 

Gianni Vasari,  born 18/03/1949 in Biel, Switzerland.

Life is a perpetual creating act. This includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, body art-performances as well as dancing and expressions through the human body. 

EXHIBITION from 9 March till 12 April 2001

Lotti Glauser

Lotti Appoloni

Two outstanding artists who love nature in a special way

 Bienne / Switzerland

Graphics, Drawings, Pastels and Mixed-Media

together with

'Creations in ceramics' 

by

Anne-Marie Maillat

Born 1952

Studio in La Neuveville

Works since 1982 in ceramics
Regular exhibitions in Switzerland

Guido Pagani

Born 1931 in Brusio / Switzerland 

Educated at the School for Art trade St.Gallen.  Lived for a long time in Iran and Portugal.
"I love border areas - the border of the desert - the coast line - the large expansion from the mountains to the sea." 

His 'World - experience' lives in his pictures, which depict in a magical way the landscapes of our Earth.  

In the press his work was described as follows:

Picturesque aerial maps without borders. The pictures of Pagani break through the opinions of the teachers and the usual perspectives of the spectator. Instead, the artist changes his viewing position, combines peripheral view and depth view and creates as such an unusual - but extremely plausible process - waking up the eyes of the spectators.

Pagani's countryside experiences are so strong that he "takes our visual senses with him on a multi-dimensional walk and shows us an unlimited cosmos total of the countryside" and simultaneously puts it onto the canvas seen from various different positions.

Visit also his WWW Pages in the 'Gallery am Goldenen Boden

Exhibition of Graffiti and Airbrush Painting

  Opening on Saturday 26th May 2001 from 16:00 - 23:00
and 'happening' Sunday 27 May 2001 from 14:00 - 20:00

Tarkin     + Sèyo

      
Exhibition:  26 May to 16 June 2001

Senoufo arts and crafts

from Korhogo/ Ivory Coast

Exhibition from 4th. till 27th. of August 2001.

The cloth pictures of Khorogo  (les toiles de Khorogo) tell stories. They mostly depict hunting scenes, birds, traditional dancers etc. in harmony in a decorative frame.

The motives are painted with very simple means onto the naturally coloured, sewn-together, home-woven cotton strips.

Various Senoufo villages specialised in these arts and crafts have joined together into co-operatives.

Pablo Picasso was once so strongly influenced  by the Senoufo art, that he brought many of their elements into his pictures, in particular in his cubistic portrayals.

EXHIBITION