A FANTASTIC RETURN FROM THE SUMMER BREAK!

WHAT A FANTASTIC RETURN FROM THE SUMMER BREAK!

Nazli Kok Art Reports, Geneva, Switzerland

Pat Andrea,  ' Les Caissons bleus' 2024, 

September is well known as the time of new beginnings. After a wonderful summer break, it is time to return to reality, gently yet enthusiastically. 

While discussions focus on the instability of world politics and global economic uncertainties, art fairs are enjoying considerable success and passionate collectors continue to acquire artwork. 

Despite all the rumours of catastrophe, the reality of the art world is much more interesting, particularly in autumn 2025. Almost all the institutions, foundations and art galleries in Switzerland and France are doing a great deal to open the season with magnificent exhibitions.

This is an intelligent way to cope with periods of uncertainty, and it's a wonderful celebration for the audience! 

The fact is that it's a time of transformation: those who adapt better will survive.

THE JEAN PLANQUE COLLECTION

THE JENICSH MUSEUM, VEVEY, Switzerland

Pablo Picasso, 'Woman with Hat in an Armchair', 1939, The Jean Planque Collection. (Photo courtesy of Succession Picasso/2025, ProLitteris, Zurich)

The Jenisch Museum in Vevey, Switzerland, opened the autumn season with some superb news: the magnificent Jean Planque Collection is returning to its hometown. 

Consisting of more than 300 works by masters such as Cézanne, Van Gogh and Renoir, one of Europe's most important modern art collections returns to its roots in Switzerland.

The collection Jean Planque reflects the brilliant eye of Jean Planque a painter and collector from Ferreyres the Canton of Vaud.

The arrival of the collection in Vevey to The Jenisch Museum is a part of joint initiative by local and cantonal authorities, to make the Jenisch Museum a major hub of the Swiss art scene. The Foundation declared that the strong relationship of trust created over a long period of time with the museum director, Nathalie Chaix, played a crucial role in that decision.

The entire collection will be on display starting in fall 2026 in The Jenisch Museum Vevey, Switzerland.

SALLY GABORI & FOREST BESS 

BENEATH THE REFLECTION OF THE WORLD,

THE FOUNDATION OPALE, CRANS MONTANA, Switzerland 

Until November 16, 2025, The Foundation  Opale presents BENEATH THE REFLECTION OF THE WORLD, an exhibition devoted to two outstanding figures of contemporary painting ; Australian Aboriginal artist Sally Gabori (1924-2015) and American painter Forrest Bess (1911-1977).

Sally Gabori, My father's Country, 2010 . The Foundation  Opale. (Copywright Nazli Kok Art Photograpy)  

Forest Bess, Dedication to Van Gogh, 1946. The Opale Foundation (Copywright Nazli Kok Art Photograpy)  

Two artist separated by the oceans, share a common ability to bring out the reflections of inner worlds, hidden beneath the surface of the visible.Their vibrant, symbolist works bear witness to the inseparable connection between memory, identity and landscape. Curated by Samuel Gros and featuring around fifty pieces, this exhibition reveals surprising parallels between the artists' practices through a unique dialogue.

GULIA ESSIYAD, 

THE WINNER OF THE GUSTAVE BUCHET PRIZE 2025

OTHER PLANES, 

THE CANTONAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS LAUSANNE, Switzerland

Curator: Pierre-Henri Foulon

 

Gulia Essiyad, winner of the 9th Gustave Buchet Prize, has transformed the MCBA's Espace Project gallery into a sensory and spiritual labyrinth. Using digital technologies. In a world of communication that is both codified and commercialised around the concept of physical appearance, Essiyad stages and transforms her own body, raising questions about identity and the human relationship with the body.

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A native of Lausanne, Essyad had a special connection to the museum, which she visited frequently during its period as an abandoned industrial zone.

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Other Planes exhibition explores the relation between self presentation and inner life and Gullia essiyad has transformed the MCBA escape Project gallery in to a immersive installation that evokes the labyrinth of consciousness. 

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In a society that sexualizes women with anorexia and imposes these ideals on a new generation, Gulia Essiyad's exhibition Other Planes needs to be seen. There is more to the body than just its shape!

 

FABIEN MERELLE’S ART DEPICTS POWERFULLY YET SUBTLY ALL MISFORTUNE OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.

ON THE BRANCH 

Wilde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

September 17-Octobre 30 2025

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Fabien Merelle is known with his delicate, masterfully executed ink drawings and sculptures.The  'On the Branch' exhibition  Merelle depicts a humble character protects his beloved troop from the complexities of the world. 

The quietness of this dreamlike drawings and sculptures depict the tension between fragility and strength against all absurdities of certain life moments.

In Merelle’s fourth exhibition in Geneva, entitled 'On the Branch', which is being held at the Wilde Gallery, he decided to maintain the coherence of his earlier exhibitions.

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In his drawings and sculptures in the exhibition On the Branch , he depicts his intention to protect his children from all the absurdities of the world.

At the entrance of the gallery, the huge black sculpture of a skeleton walking with determination to carry out his catastrophic intentions, holding that tiny courageous man in his hand that holding a miniature pistolet and shooting through the skeleton's head without success, skeleton completely ignores this tiny, courageous man even turns his gaze to another side! 

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In Merelle’s dream-like world, viewers will be amazed by the courage of the man in pyjamas!

HANS KUPELWIESER – RUDOLF POLANSZKY

MEZZANIN GALLERY, Geneva, Switzerland 

September 18 – November 08

Rudolf Polanszky.

RUDOLF POLANSZKY is a key figure in the Vienna art scene. Polanszky  was born in Vienne, where he grew up in the 1960s in the wake of the Viennese Actionists. In his early work, Polanszky reacted against this movement by performing his own ironic actions. The 1990s marked an artistic turning point for Polanszky. During this period, he began creating canvas-mounted and freestanding assemblages by combining salvaged industrial materials such as aluminum, mirrored foil, resin, and wire. His process is known as ‘ad hoc synthesis’ demonstrates his interest in deliberate artistic action with random chance to create a new context.

In his recent works, The Reconstructions , he  newly incorporate copper foil,  are more complex tree-dimensional structures and their negative spaces.

Rudolf Polanszky

HANS KUPELWIESER is a multimedia artist who has managed to establish an independent position within contemporary Austrian sculpture, representing a significant development in postmodernist sculpture. His work spans sculpture, photography, graphics and installation.

Hans Kupelwieser. (Copywright Nazli Kok Art Photograpy) 

Kupelwieser is the one of the most important multimedia artist of his generation. He often works at the intersection of two and tree dimensional forms. 

He is known by his sculptures using unconventional materials, metals like aluminum, steel, Plexiglas rubber so on.His work also engages light, reflection, transparency, which means the context can change how works are perceived. 

PAT ANDREA 

‘THE SURPRISE VISITE’

SONIA ZANETTACCI, Geneva, Switzerland 

September 17- November 1

 

Yes, Pat Andrea — the master of the New Subjectivity movement — was in Geneva in person! The Sonia Zanettacci Gallery has created a wonderful surprise for art lovers and collectors during Geneva Art Week!

It was a real surprise!

How could anyone not be a huge fan of Pat Andrea after discovering his masterful drawings for the Alice in Wonderland album ? Andrea is a magical realist and the master of neo figurative painting. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking- Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll is the world's most illustrated book. The character of Alice has been depicted thousands of times by different artists. Andrea's portrayal of Alice is unique in that he presents her as a time traveller, ensuring her immortality!

Pat Andrea, The Drawing from the Alice's Adventure in Wonderland Album.  Private Collection.(Copywright Nazli Kok Art Photograpy) 

Pat Andrea (1942), a leading figure in the ‘New Subjectivity’ movement alongside David Hockney and Swiss artist Samuel Buri, lives and works between Paris and Buenos Aires. Since the 1970s, the artist has cultivated a unique style, at the crossroads of Hyperrealism and Surrealism. 

Pat Andrea, Les Courtisanes, 2020. The Sonia Zanettacci Gallery, Geneva.

His works, which combine black humor, macabre visions and eroticism, question the power of images and their ability to reveal the unconscious. For Andrea, women are not just subjects: they are a sovereign force, mistresses of the enclosed or absurd spaces in which the artist places his characters.

Pat Andrea, Low moon over the etruscan coast, 2017-2018 .

The Sonia Zanettacci Gallery, Geneva.

With this exhibition, the Sonia Zannettacci Gallery shines a spotlight on an artist who, for more than fifty years, has been blurring the boundaries between dream and reality, humour and horror, seduction and unease. 

The surprise visit is not the only thing that Pat Andrea has in store for the viewer. It is also an exploration of the hidden depths of the imagination and a confrontation with the recurring images of the unconscious mind.

Nazli Kok Art Reports, Sebtember 2025