NAZLI KOK ART REPORTS SWITZERLAND- ISTANBUL

  OSCAR GHEZ, A PASSIONATE  ART COLLECTOR Treasures of the Petit Palais Geneva  FONDATION DE L'HERMITAGE,  Lausanne 24.January-01.June Curators;Slyvie Wuhrmann           Aurelie Couvreur         Corinne Currat Reporter; Nazli Kok Akbas Felix Vallotton,(1865-1925, France) Nu couché au tapis Rouge , 1909, Oil on Canvas.The Fondation Petit Palais, Geneva. In spring 2025, the Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland, hosts a particuarly unusual collection of impressionnist and post-impressionist masterpieces from the Petit Palais, Geneva. Tullio Garbari, (Italy, 1892-1931, Paris) The Intellectuals at La Rotonde, 1916. Oil on canvas. The Fondation Petit Palais, Geneva. In the 1950s Oscar Ghez began acquiring works that reflect his remarkably free approach to collection, with an interest in late- 19th and early 20th century painting that was not confined to the great masters. Theophile-Alexa...

  SOPHIE THUN WET ROOMS MUSEE CANTONAL  DES BEAUX-ARTS LAUSANNE    14.MARCH - 10.AUGUST   Curator; Pierre-Henri Foulon Reporter; Nazli Kok Akbas   'To reproduce oneself is to disappear and even the most basic asexualized being is rarefied by reproduction. Those who reproduce themselves do not die if, by death, we understand the passage from life to decomposition, but he who was, by reproducing himself, ceases to be what he was—because he doubles himself.'*1      Wet Rooms , refers to the darkroom in which the artist develops her photographs. She works exclusively with analogue photography, pushing the limits of its technical possibilities by creating 1:1 prints. An intimate space, marked by the presence of chemical baths essential to the unveiling of the image, it is also a space of solitude and silence in which the artist reconstructs her vision of the world. When working on her large-format photos, she uses magnets to hold the paper aganist...

  ALICE PAULI  Gallerist, Collector, Art Patron MUSEE CANTONAL  DES BEAUX-ARTS  LAUSANNE 14.February - 4.May Curator; Camille Leveque-Claudet Reporter; Nazli Kok Akbas Alice Pauli, photo was photographed by Enrico Bajon on mars in 1964. This exhibition is a tribute to the gallerist, collector and art patron Alice Pauli. It celebrates the extraordinary career of a pioneer. Enrico Baj, (1924-2003) Georges Grenville, Marquis de Buckingham , 1963.Collage on fabric. Vergiate, Archivio Enrico Baj. Enrico Baj, (1924-2003), Marie d'Orleans, duchesse de Nemours 1963. Collage on fabric. BFF Art Collection. In the 1990s, Alice Pauli was one of the first and most active supporters of the project to build a new Fine Arts Museum in Lausanne, and she continued this commitment by contributing to the financing of the new building, which was inaugurated in 2019 on the site of Platforme 10, and by donating a monumental sculpture by Guiseppe Penone for the museum's main hall. (Photogra...

  MARISA MERZ  LISTEN TO THE SPACE   KUNST MUSEUM  Bern 31 January - 1 June 2025 Curator; Livia Wermuth  Reporter; Nazli Kok Akbas Marisa Merz, Untitled, raw c lay, copper wire, tracks.    THE SUBTLE POWER OF MARIZA MERZ'S WORK   The subtle power of Marisa Merz's work is reflected in a vision that comes from within.  She believed that;   'THE EYE GUIDES THE HAND,  WHEN THE EYES ARE CLOSED,  THEY ARE EXTRAORDINARILY OPEN' . Marisa Merz, Untitiled, copper wire, tracks, canvas Her work is characterised by SILENCE, POETRY and a search for the FRAGILITY OF ART . According to Marisa Merz, this corresponds to the delicacy of life. (Photography copyright, Nazli Kok Akbas,  NKA Art Reports Switzerland-France-Istanbul Photography 2024.  All rights reserved) SILENCE AND THE MOVEMENT EVERYTHING IS SO STILL  AND IN THAT INSTANT THE LEAF MOVES MARISA MERZ Marisa Merz, Living Sculptures, 1967, Merz Collection  Marisa Merz ...