"Grande Formato"

Galleria Gottardo Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland

07. 01. 2004 - 28. 02. 2004

Participating artists:
Marc-Antoine Fehr, Heiner Kielholz, Leiko Ikemura, Mario Merz, Peter Roesch, Franz Wanner


Selections from the Banca del Gottardo Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland


The Japanese artist Leiko Ikemura (Tsu Mie, Japan, 1951), has been living in Switzerland since 1979 and belongs to the generation of neo-expressionist artists. Referring back to the historical avant-garde of German Expressionism and Fauvism, she brings back the violent deformation of the image through the use of the chromatic symbol or contrast. The work for this exhibition, Mamma Buddha from 1986 (oil on canvas) is an example of her style. In the painting, Ikemura portrays the dichotomy between two religious truths by depicting two figures, the Buddha and the Virgin Mary, reaching out towards each other in a coming together of consciousness. Leiko Ikemura has been a professor at the Universitaet der Kuenste in Berlin since 1991.


The “Swiss Art 1960-1990 The Young Generation” collection of the Banca del Gottardo
includes a detailed catalogue of the same title, published in 1992 (Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich)


Galleria Gottardo, a cultural foundation of the Banca del Gottardo
Banca del Gottardo, Institutional Patron of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

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Exhibition dates 7 January - 28 February 2004
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