(INDEX)

Jean-Marc Meunier
Sapins de Noël, 1988-1989

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Exhibition from May 31 to July 14, 1990
Opening May 30, 1990
Jean-Marc Meunier, <em srcset=
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Jean-Marc Meunier is foremost landscape photographer: in 1984, his first important series is devoted to the transformation of neighborhoods in south-east London, offering whole landscapes under construction, half savage, half industrial. He then focuses on vegetation, particularly vegetation accreditation suburban areas and residential areas, and its intermingling with architecture and public facilities. His series on Christmas trees, carried out between November 1988 and January 1989 in the Geneva area, continues that theme. (Olivier Lugon, extract from the press release)

Andreas Hofer
Sans titre

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Andreas Hofer, Sans titre, box containing 6 perforated discs, covered with enamel front and back, on aluminium, colour and black/white, with an impressum on cardboard in a tracing paper envelope. With two colour photographs of the installation. 52.5 × 52.5 cm, edition of 20, numbered and marked with a dry stamp « H » at the bottom of the box. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1990.
CHF 1’800.–

Anne Pesce
Pêcheur, c’est lui qui devient un poisson

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Exhibition from March 30 to May 12, 1990
Opening March 29, 1990
Anne Pesce, <em>Pêcheur, c’est lui qui devient un poisson</em>, 1990
Anne Pesce, Pêcheur, c’est lui qui devient un poisson, 1990

Anne Pesce tries to find a definition of painting in the nihilistic context of the recent years. Avoiding to get confused with the movements “neo” and other post-modernism that never end to kill painting, Anne Pesce tries to take it up through a more poetic and philosophical. It creates metaphorical links between painting, words, critical thinking and the world: “I like to paint to stop thinking, think to paint is only an aping of the big tide of the spirit. “

Anne Pesce, Pêcheur, c’est lui qui devient un poisson, artist’s book with a text by the artist, offset on laid paper Conqueror 100 g/m2 and 220 g/m2, 21 × 19 cm, edition of 150 plus 20 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1990.

Anne Pesce
Pêcheur, c’est lui qui devient un poisson

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Anne Pesce, <em>Pêcheur, c'est lui qui devient un poisson</em>, 1990
Anne Pesce, Pêcheur, c’est lui qui devient un poisson, 1990
Anne Pesce, Pêcheur, c’est lui qui devient un poisson, artist’s book with a text by the artist, offset on laid paper Conqueror 100 g/m2 and 220 g/m2, 21 × 19 cm, edition of 150 plus 20 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1990.
CHF 50.–

Andreas Hofer
Installation – édition

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Exhibition from February 12 to March 24, 1990
Opening February 10, 1990

Presentation of the edition and installation in the Parc de Malagnou in front of the Centre, of the six double-sided panels (remained in place from 1989 to 2000)

In the park in front of the Centre, will be installed a series of panels similar to those used for road signs, except that the discs do not present the conventional acronyms, but abstract signs, perforated or enamelled. Planted following each other, these six panels will turn into a succession of targets, bringing confusion on the actual function of the set and an ironic dash to omnipresence in our cities of the signs and its procession of prohibited. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Andreas Hofer, Sans titre, box containing 6 perforated discs, covered with enamel front and back, on aluminium, colour and black/white, with an impressum on cardboard in a tracing paper envelope. With two colour photographs of the installation. 52.5 × 52.5 cm, edition of 20, numbered and marked with a dry stamp « H » at the bottom of the box. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1990.

 

Roman Signer
Installation hélicoptère 1990

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Roman Signer, <em>Installation hélicoptère 1990</em>, 1990
Roman Signer, Installation hélicoptère 1990, 1990
Roman Signer, Installation hélicoptère 1990, pilot: Armin Caspari, Video: Simon Lamunière, Edition: Video U-Matic and VHS, 5 min, sound, colours, Pal. U-Matic: edition of 10 plus 5 H.C., numbered and signed. VHS: edition of 20 plus 4 H.C., numbered and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1990.
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Emmett Williams
Multiples

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Silkscreen-prints (1978-1979)
From September 18 to October 28, 1989
Emmett Williams, <em srcset=
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Presentation of the edition and silkscreen-prints.

Emmett Williams, La dernière pomme frite et autres poèmes des fifties et sixties, 112 lino engravings on ivory satin cardboard 240 g/m2, black and red, presented in a black box, 32.5 × 24 cm, edition of 20 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1989.

Henri Michaux
Encres, gouaches, aquarelles, lavis

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Exhibition from June 1 to July 15, 1989
Opening May 31, 1989
Henri Michaux, view of the exhibition, 1989
Henri Michaux, view of the exhibition, 1989

During the exhibition: presentation at the Centre of the film Images du monde visionnaire of Henri Michaux, directed by Eric Duvivier (1963).
The June 14, 1989 in the evening: Concert of New Quartet of Geneva, 5th quartet of Giacinto Scelsi dedicated to Henri Michaux and the works of H. Villa Lobos and Anton Webern

Today, it seems important to report by texts of the will of producing and experimenting of Michaux, always with the same honesty facing the sign in movement and the abstract sign, as well as its points of cinematographic view, given to see, in their profusion, like a picture book.

Henri Michaux, catalogue: Introduction d’Anne Patry et Paul Viaccoz, textes de Jean Starobinski, Alfred Pacquement, Alain Jouffroy, René Micha, Raymond Bellour et biographie de Geneviève Bonnefoi, cinquante-deux pages, 32 x 24 cm, offset sur papier Biber 65 mat 150 gm2, seize ill. noir/blanc et deux ill. couleurs, sept-cent exemplaires, imprimés par Victor Chevalier Imprimerie Genevoise SA, édités par le Centre, Genève, 1989

 

Andreas Gursky
Photographies

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Exhibition from April 6 to May 20, 1989
Opening April 5, 1989
Andreas Gursky, view of the exhibition, 1989
Andreas Gursky, view of the exhibition, 1989

Photographs from 1984 to 1989.

The landscapes of Andreas Gursky are soccer fields, swimming pools, mountains, artificial lakes, play areas, intermediate areas between town and country, the Sunday walks. Man is at the center of these photographs, although the landscape is omnipresent.

Mori Shigeru
Estampes

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Exhibition of 18 November 1988 to 14 January 1989
Opening November 17, 1988
Mori Shigeru, <em srcset=
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The Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, in 1985, had exposed several works of young Genevan artists from the School of Visual Arts in Geneva. Without being in the hunt for young talents, the Centre would like to show that etching is still a field of investigation for new formal and conceptual preoccupation. Shigeru Mori, was born in Japan in 1952, student of the engraving workshop of the School of Visual Arts in Geneva since 1985, he works with a traditional technique, particularly spectacular – black aquatint – he uses in a “modern” perspective with reports of abstract and minimal forms. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

 

Cinq pièces avec vue

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Cinq pièces avec vue, 1987
«Cinq pièces avec vue», 1987

Cinq pièces avec vue, Gerd Belz, Silvie and Chérif Defraoui, Gary Hill, Jacques-Louis Nyst and Marcel Odenbach. Texts by : Véronique Bacchetta, Bel Veder, Heike Melba-Fendel, Denys Zacharopoulos, Raymond Bellour, Eric de Moffarts, Anne-Marie Duguet. Edited in collaboration with Saint-Gervais for the second « Semaine Internationale de Vidéo », 1987. 28 x 21 cm, 15 illustrations, black&white, 32 pages
CHF 20.-