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2014The Finissage of the “Beauty In Hell” Exhibition will be held at Fondazione Ghisla, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art. Also, 2 photographs in unique copy will be delivered to become part of this incredible international collection.
I am honoured and extremely proud to announce that on October 18 – 2014 from 17.30 the 18 photographs from my “Beauty In Hell” Project will be exhibited in the 8 rooms of the Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection (Via Ciseri 3, Locarno, Switzerland), spread between the works of great artists such as: Picasso, Mirò,Basquiat, Castellani, Fontana, Lichtenstein, Magritte, Mathieu, Christo, ecc: http://www.ghisla-art.ch/artists/
Also, during the Event 2 photographs in their unique copy (a 42×28” Fine Art Giclèe Print) will be handed over to become part of the Ghisla Collection. The 2 images purchase by the Museum are show here below.
If you would like to come to the event, please contact us and confirm your attendance: info@ghisla-art.ch – (+41) 91 751 01 52 – www.ghisla-art.ch
FONDAZIONE GHISLA ART COLLECTION
The nonprofit Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection was founded in April 2014, with the aim of making an artistic holding of international value available to the public, to be shared with all those who recognise art to be an indelible asset.
The collection has been created by the Ghislas, a husband-and-wife team impelled by a growing and eclectic passion for artistic expressiveness. The collection occupies a futuristic building that has just been built as a project by the Moro & Moro architectural studio of Locarno; it is located in the centre of the town just a few metres from the marina.
ARTISTS AND ARTWORKS
The works in the Fondazione Ghisla are laid out in eight rooms over three floors. Their layout is not determined by chronological rigour or by a division by the movements and trends that have characterised the art from the late 20th century up to today. Anyone entering these spaces immerses himself in the taste of Pierino and Martine Ghisla, who over the past thirty years have gathered perfect masterpieces from the Pop Art, Arte Informale, Conceptual Art, Abstract Art and New Dada movements… together with emerging artists who are perhaps less well-known to the general public. Their approach has been as though they were welcoming guests into their own home. Thus in the first room, one sees a Frank Stella in close dialogue with a Christo, while in the third room, Pierre Alechinsky and Karel Appel convey their “cobra” style to the candid geometric rigour of a large canvas by François Morellet, which in turn hangs next to two “organic” compositions by Jan Fabre. And so on. A way to draw the visitor actively into a reading and into the history of these works and their juxtapositions.
IMAGES IN THE MUSEUM COLLECTION
Contrasts: Curiosity & diffidence, desperation & indifference | Through the streets of Mathare Slum (Nairobi). The contrast between the innocent beauty of the young girl, the vivid diffidence of the boy behind her, the finality of the desperation shown by the man on the ground and the indifference of the people passing by. This is the ensemble of feelings that runs through these slums every day.
Africa, where are you going … | A young girl playing on the railway that runs through Kibera (the second largest slum in the world – Nairobi). All you can see in the background is Kibera with over one million people. While I was taking this picture my mind kept thinking about what kind of future awaits the African countries.
