Category: Switzerland
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Dissected and compounded
Dissected and compounded A breast, a breast with arm, a head, a neck, black hairdo … the figure of a woman put together of its constituent parts. The artist has done a decent job, at least for the portion we see in the picture, which was the part of the sculpture most to my liking when I…
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Dryads
Dryads Are they wounded, these stately wood nymphs with their heavy breasts? The red-lined cuts over the full length of their bodies lead one to suspect this is the case. Maybe the god of thunder and lightning has violated them and left his marks. Many years ago, during a walk on the island of Corsica,…
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Encounter in the forest
Encounter in the forest Two weeks ago I showed you a photo of nature as art. Here we have a case of art in nature. Art and nature … they often go well together. Two ladies in the forest, facing each other. Their upright, elegant figures in wood with metal dress stand still like the trees.…
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A plunge into the unknown
A plunge into the unknown “Voici le temps du vertige et son délicieux effroi. Encore un instant maître, suspendu à la loi, et puis la chute aillée dans le vivant abîme.” (Hans Thomann – Himmel) Ready for the New Year? Photo of the week: Sculpture “Himmel” by Hans Thomann, 8e triennale de sculpture contemporaine Bex &…
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Floating fish
Floating fish The fish in this ‘aquarium’ without water aren’t floating, just like the birds in last week’s post weren’t flying. They are artificial, man-made and suspended in the air. While the birds were flying through the world of advertising, the fish are floating in the world of art. The two worlds have in common that…
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Still no sign of spring?
Still no sign of spring? When is this snow finally going to melt so that the world will wake up from its winter sleep? We are dying to graze again in the sun on the green mountain slopes! That’s what these chamois seem to think while staring into the cold white distance. Photo of the week: Chavannes, Villars-sur-Ollon,…
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There’s a story for you
There’s a story for you “They love each other, marry, in order to love each other better, more conveniently, he goes to the wars, he dies at the wars, she weeps, with emotion, at having loved him, at having lost him, yep, marries again, in order to love again, more conveniently again, they love each…
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The time trail
The time trail At the start of this millennium, the Swiss city of Neuchâtel created a trail through time in the nearby woods – Le Sentier du Temps. The starting point was intended to mark the formation of our planet Earth, and the end point our present day. Each one-metre step represented one million years,…
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Kind-hearted nationalism
Kind-hearted nationalism Swiss alpenhorns are relics of the past. Just like the smoke signals of Red Indians, they once were used to communicate swiftly with inhabitants of nearby valleys and mountain slopes, long before the invention of the telephone. But their main purpose seems to have been for herdsmen to call their free-grazing cattle back…
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