ALICE PAULI, MUSEE CANTONAL DES BEAUX -ARTS LAUSANNE, Lausanne
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.
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.
(Photography copyright, Nazli Kok Akbas, NKA Art Reports Switzerland-France-Istanbul Photography 2024. All rights reserved)
Guiseppe Penone, Luce e Ombra (Light and Shadow ), 2011. Bronze, gold, granite.
Gift of Alice Pauli in memory of her son Olivier.
Born in january 1922, second of four children, she grew up in Moutier in the Swiss Jura region. She started her professional career in 1937 as a trainee and then office worker in watchmaking industry.
Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne,besquest of Alice Pauli.
She was put in charge of the Lausanne sales office when it opened in 1943. Alice Bucher often had to travel abroad to meet with the firm's international clients.
Weaving atelier Gouble -Gatien,Aubusson, wool.
Lausanne,Fondation Toms Pauli, gift of Alice Pauli 1999.
It was a visit to the United States, London and Paris, as Alice Bucher later called it, that led this young lady from a family with a rather indifferent attitude to art to discover the pleasure of wandering around museums. As for the moment that awakened her love for tapisserie and, more specifically, for textile art.
Tissage, atelier Goubley-Gatien,Aubusson, wool
Nestle Art Collection.
In 1947 she met Pierre Pauli, whom she would marry in 1954, that convinced her to quit her job and join to him in a cultural and commercial undertaking.
Pierre Pauli was born in 1916, he was a graphic artist working for the watch company. Pierre transmitted to Alice his enthusiasm for the work of Jean Lurcat.From the very first projects they worked on together, Pierre brought to the table his sharp and spirited vision of the cultural world and his artistic sensibility, while Alice brought the art of negotiation and the business skills she had acquired in the watchmaking industry.
Alice Pauli opened her own art gallery in may 1961.The venue would close years later, after her death on 2022.
Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne,besquest of Alice Pauli.
Roberto Crippa, (1921-1972), Untitled, 1964.ink gouache and collage on paper.
Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne,besquest of Alice Pauli.
Roberto Crippa, (1921-1972), In the Miror, 1962, Painted metal plates on panel and cork.
Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne,besquest of Alice Pauli.
Driven by her passion for contemporary art, Alice Pauli regularly showed artists' prints after opening her gallery in 1961.
Rebecca Horn, (1944-2024) Zen or Raven, Crow Features, motor, electronics and steel.
Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne,besquest of Alice Pauli.
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985), the Weaver's Vision,1976, acrylic on paper mounded on canvas.Gift of morelle and James Levy,2019
Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne,gift of Alice Pauli
Pierre Soulages, (1919-2022), Painting 1965, Oil canvas. Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne,gift of Alice Pauli.
Between 2017 and 2019, moreover, Alice Pauli donated to the museum 26 works of art by great names of modern and contemporary art like Rebecca Horn, William Kentridge, Anish Kapoor, Pierre Soulages.
Pierre Soulages, (1919-2022), Painting 1965, Oil canvas. Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne,gift of Alice Pauli.
Alice Pauli was always in search of new ways of working with both the artists who lived and worked in her region and the great names in international contemporary art.
Over the years, Alice Pauli personally supported and encouraged a number of artists in the design, printing and sale of their print work.
Juan Martinez, That's it!, 1979, Acrylic and pencil on paper.
Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne,gift of Alice Pauli.
Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne,gift of Alice Pauli.
As a tribune to Alice Pauli's generosity, the exhibition celebrates the extraordinaire journey of a pioneer. Featuring leading figures of international contemporary art alongside key personalities from the Swiss art scene, the display brings together artists whose work this exceptional woman had been nager to see brought together and showcased in a single venue.
Nazli Kok Art Reports, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Art Lausanne
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