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SWISS EVENTS
IN NEW YORK AND IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE U.S. for the period of October 30 – November 12, 2013
UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTS Film | Music | Visual Arts | Architecture | Theater | Design | Above and Beyond | Coming Soon | Meanwhile in Switzerland Dates, locations and ticket prices are subject to change. Please confirm before visiting events!
HIGHLIGHT
Monday, November 4 7pm
JOEL DICKER TALK & BOOK SIGNING To kick off the Swiss Series at FIAF, meet Joël Dicker, the 27-year-old Swiss sensation whose second book, La vérité sur l’affaire Harry Quebert kicked Fifty Shades of Grey off the bestseller list of Amazon.fr, and has won three major literary prizes, including the novelist’s award from the Académie française. Dicker will speak in French about his bestselling novel, a classic whodunit murder mystery set in New York City. The talk will be moderated by journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian and followed by a book signing by the author. Presented in partnership with the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York and Vacheron Constantin, the oldest manufacturer of Swiss luxury watches. Image: Joël Dicker © Jeremy Spierer.
FIAF, Le Skyroom 22 East 60th Street New York, NY www.fiaf.org
FILM
Saturday, November 9 6:30pm
THE END OF TIME NEW YORK PREMIERE Known for his work capturing the northern lights, Peter Mettler offers the New York premiere at White Light Festival of his stunning new film The End of Time, which encourages viewers to ruminate on the nature of time, on our constantly evolving universe and bodily transience. This ephemeral journey moves from scientists probing the attributes of time at a particle accelerator to volcanic eruptions, funeral rites, deteriorating urban landscapes, and an observatory that can see ten billion years into the past. Image: The End of Time directed by Peter Mettler, Switzerland / Canada, 2012.
Walter Reade Theater 165 West 65
th Street
New York, NY www.whitelightfestival.org
Tuesday, November 12 9pm
GARIBALDI’S LOVERS FILM SCREENING Il Comandante e la cicogna (2012) by Silvio Soldini will open the New Italian Cinema Festival in New York, after having recently been acquired by the NYC-based Film Movement to be distributed throughout the United States with the title of Garibaldi's Lovers. The film's leading actress Alba Rohrwacher (Days and Couds, Giovanna's Father, The Man Who Will Come, Good Morning Heartache, The Solitude of Prime Numbers, A Street in Palermo) will attend and introduce the screening of the film at the Tribeca Cinemas on November 12 at 9:00 p.m. Image: Il Comandante e la cicogna by Silvio Soldini, 2012.
Tribeca Cinemas 54 Varick Street New York, NY www.nicefestival.org
Through October
JEAN-LUC GODARD RETROSPECTIVE AT NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Beginning in the second week of the 51
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New York Film Festival and continuing through the end of October, Film Society of Lincoln Center presents a retrospective of one of the greatest artists at work in any medium, Jean-Luc Godard. Image: Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie. Image courtesy of Films de la Pleiade / The Kobal Collection.
New York Film Festival Film Society of Lincoln Center New York, NY www.filmlinc.com/nyff2013
MUSIC
Thursday, October 31 8pm
Saturday, November 2 8pm
SYLVIE COURVOISIER CONCERTS Swiss composer and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier performs with Mark Feldman at Skidmore College on Thursday, October 31 and with Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen at the Greenwich House on Barrow Street on Saturday, November 2. Image: Sylvie Courvoisier.
Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY www.calendar.skidmore.edu Greenwich House 46 Barrow Street New York, NY www.greenwichhouse.org
Friday, November 1 7:30pm
GLASS FARM ENSEMBLE CONCERT Glass Farm Ensemble performs Riot with music by Jonathan Harvey, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Yvonne Troxler, Drew Krause and Michael Jarrell. Margaret Lancaster, flute, Amy Advocat, clarinet, Sophie Shao, cello and Yvonne Troxler, piano Image: Glass Farm Ensemble.
Symphony Space Leonard Nimoy Thalia 2537 Broadway at 95
th Street
New York, NY www.glassfarm.org
Sunday, November 3 9pm
CHRISTOPH ERB CONCERT Swiss tenor saxophone, bass clarinet player Christoph Erb performs with Keefe Jackson, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, with cellist Tomeka Reid and Nate Wooley on trumpet. Image: Christoph Erb © Dragan Tasic.
Ibeam Brooklyn 168 7
th Street
Brooklyn, NY www.ibeambrooklyn.com
VISUAL ARTS
Thursday, October 31
OLIVIER MOSSET EXHIBITION OPENING Swiss artist Olivier Mosset presents Exposition de Groupe at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy from October 31 - November 21 and at The Kitchen from October 31 - December 21, 2013. The exhibition includes an installation of motorcycles and paintings, as well as a video collaboration with Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler. The artist presents what he terms a group show, underscoring how the legibility of any artwork is possible only in the context of a larger and living collectivity. Curated by Sophie Claudel, Thomas Delamarre, and Tim Griffin. The opening reception will take place on Wednesday, October 30 from 6 – 8pm at The Kitchen. Image: Panhead © Olivier Mosset, Vincent Szarek, Jeffrey Schad.
Cultural Services of the French Embassy 972 Fifth Avenue New York, NY www.frenchculture.org The Kitchen 512 West 19
th Street
New York, NY www.thekitchen.org
Saturday, November 2 12:30pm
CAHN, MULLER, MARSHALL IN CONVERSATION Swiss Institute is pleased to invite you to a conversation between Miriam Cahn, Ulrike Muller, and curator Piper Marshall. The three will discuss the exhibition Descartes' Daughter as well as their practices. Croissants and light refreshments will be served.
Swiss Institute 18 Wooster Street New York, NY www.swissinstitute.net
Through October 31
MALIN ARNELL ACTION For the three-day action I am not quite sure. This is an arduous terrain Malin Arnell has invited nine lives to each spend an hour in silence in the foyer of Swiss Institute. I am not quite sure. This is an arduous terrain is part of the group show Descartes’ Daughter. Curated by Piper Marshall.
Swiss Institute 18 Wooster Street New York, NY www.swissinstitute.net
Through November 2
JOHN ARMLEDER EXHIBITION Nahmad Contemporary is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the Swiss artist John Armleder. The exhibition spans the last two decades of artist’s career, showing a number of pieces for the first time in New York. Image: John Armleder, Chabasite, 2008.
Nahmad Contemporary 980 Madison Avenue 3
rd Floor
New York, NY www.nahmadcontemporary.com
Through November 3
DESCARTE’S DAUGHTER EXHIBITION Swiss Institute is pleased to present the exhibition Descartes' Daughter, featuring works by Malin Arnell, Miriam Cahn, John Chamberlain, Hanne Darboven, Melanie Gilligan, Rochelle Goldberg, Nicolàs Guagnini / Jeff Preiss, Rachel Harrison, Lucas Knipscher, Jason Loebs, Ulrike Müller, Pamela Rosenkranz, Karin Schneider, Sergei Tcherepnin, Charline von Heyl. Curated by Piper Marshall. Image: Detail of Hanne Darboven, Urzeit/Uhrzeit, Fisch und Vogel, la, lb, 1986.
Swiss Institute 18 Wooster Street New York, NY www.swissinstitute.net
Through November 13
REGIS COLOMBO EXHIBITION S Artspace is pleased to announce the selection of Regis Colombo Transparencies at the kick-off party of the 16th edition of the Affordable Art Fair at the Times Square W Hotel New York. This exhibition will focus on New York's love for fashion, travel and design. On view until November 13. Image: Woody Allen by Regis Colombo
W Hotel Times Square 1567 Broadway 7
th Floor Living Room
New York, NY www.regiscolombo.com
Through November 24
I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR EXHIBITION The School at ICP presents I’ll Be Your Mirror: Navigating Interaction in the Digital Age, a photographic exhibition examining contemporary forms of contact and communication in an ever-changing media landscape. Featuring works by Swiss photographer Andreas Rentsch and other alumni of the Full-Time Programs, the exhibition critiques various modes of representation and consumption in the digital era. Image: Andreas Rentsch, from X-Ray Series, 2012.
School of the International Center of Photography 1114 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY www.icp.org
Through December 4
ROMAN SIGNER EXHIBITION For the High Line, Roman Signer presents his celebrated 8mm film Kayak. In the short work, Signer sits in a blue kayak clad in a black leather motorcycle jacket and a white helmet. Rather than commence his journey in the water, a truck tows Signer on a dry road as the bottom of the kayak is slowly scraped away. As Signer is dragged along a Swiss country road, a herd of dairy cows gallop alongside him, as if captivated by the surreal scene. By decontextualizing the familiar, Signer expands, in a humorously subversive and poetic vein, our view of the world. Image: Roman Signer, Kayak, 2000. Video Still.
High Line Seating Steps at W. 22
nd Street
New York, NY www.art.thehighline.org
Through December 13
LIGHTNESS OF BEING EXHIBITION The exhibition Lightness of Being brings together the work of eleven international artists. It features sculptures of very different scales and materials, as well as a weekly performance. Significant recent works by senior figures such as Daniel Buren (b. 1938) and Franz West (1947 - 2012) are shown alongside pieces by emerging and mid-career artists including Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) and Olaf Breuning (b. 1970). Image: Olaf Breuning, The Humans, 2007.
City Hall Park Lower Manhattan New York, NY www.publicartfund.org
Through January 12
BALTHUS – CATS AND GIRLS EXHIBITION Focusing on Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) finest works, the exhibition Cats and Girls – Paintings and Provocations at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is limited to approximately thirty-five paintings dating from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Never before shown in public is the series of forty small ink drawings for Mitsou, in which the eleven-year-old Balthus evoked his adventures with
Metropolitan Museum of Art 100 5
th Avenue
New York, NY www.metmuseum.org
a stray tomcat and which were published by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1921. This is the first US exhibition of the artist's works in thirty years. Image: Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) Thérèse, 1938.
Through March 16, 2014
2013 CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION Presented every 3-5 years at Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie International is among the leading exhibitions of contemporary art worldwide. Featuring hundreds of works by artists from around the globe, the 2013 International is a catalyst for new ways to present, experience, and think about art. The exhibition is organized by Swiss curator Daniel Baumann along with associate curators Dan Byers and Tina Kukielski and includes two workshop-based projects by Swiss artist Tobias Madison. Image: Tobias Madison, process documentation for the making of Workshop, 2013, video and installation. Photo: David D'Agostino.
Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA www.cmoa.org
ARCHITECTURE
Through February 2, 2014
CHRISTIAN WASSMANN EXHIBITION Studio Christian Wassmann presents an architectural structure in the form of a star tetrahedron as part of the New York-based fashion collective threeASFOUR’s latest project MER KA BA, an otherworldly installation that fuses avant-garde couture, architecture, and video projections. Image: threeASFOUR, in collaboration with Bradley Rothenberg; rendering of 3D-printed weave for MER KA BA, 2013 © threeASFOUR.
Jewish Museum 1109 5
th Avenue
New York, NY www.thejewishmuseum.org
THEATER
Tuesday, November 12 – Sunday, November 17
DISABLED THEATER JÉRÔME BEL AND THEATER HORA Disabled Theater is a powerful performance by critically acclaimed French choreographer Jérôme Bel in collaboration with Theater HORA, a Zurich-based theater company of professional actors with learning disabilities. An extension of Bel’s sensitive portraits of dancers that reveal the intertwinement of professional careers and personal lives, the performance offers a rare glimpse at lives laid bare on the stage in a manner that is both compassionate and vulnerable. Disabled Theater is a Performa Premiere and presented with New York Live Arts. Image: Photo by Michael Bause.
New York Live Arts 219 West 19
th Street
New York, NY www.13.performa-arts.org
DESIGN
Monday, November 11 6:00 – 7:30pm
CÉCILE TRENTINI OPENING RECEPTION ArtQuilt Gallery NYC is pleased to present Daily Inspiration, an exhibition of quilts by Swiss artist Cécile Trentini. Ms. Trentini will also be teaching a workshop at The City Quilter next door to ArtQuilt Gallery on Saturday, November 9 from 10:30 - 5:30pm and on Sunday, November 10 from 10 – 5pm. Image: Daily Beauty by Cécile Trentini.
ArtQuilt Gallery NYC 133 West 25
th Street
New York, NY www.artquiltgallerynyc.com www.cityquilter.com
Through October 31
LAZY BYTES EXHIBITION As part of its effort to renew our relationship to the digital world, and under the title of Lazy Bytes, the EPFL+ECAL Lab collaborated with the Kudelski Group to invite four major design schools to rethink the remote control: the Royal College of Art in London, ENSCI-Les Ateliers de Paris, Parsons The New School for Design in New York, and the ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. Image: Twistymote, by Hilal Koyuncu, Leif Percifield, Francisco Zamorano.
Parsons The New School for Design 66 Fifth Avenue at 13
th Street
New York, NY www.newschool.edu
ABOVE AND BEYOND
Friday, November 8 12:30 pm
FLORAL ANIMATIONS IN FRENCH ART LECTURE BY CHONJA LEE
NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents L’Âme de Lotus: Floral Animations in French Art around 1900. Starting from a close reading of František Kupkas aquatint Les Nénuphars (1900), Chonja Lee from the University of Zurich will investigate ideas and images of the ensouled flower not only in Symbolist painting, but also in psycho-botanical and art theoretical discourse, dance and film around 1900. Chonja Lee is a PhD student at the University of Zurich and currently a Visiting Researcher at Princeton University. Image: Chonja Lee, University of Zurich.
NYU Institute of Fine Arts Seminar Room 1 East 78
th Street
New York, NY www.nyu.edu RSVP required. www.docs.google.com
COMING SOON
Thursday, November 15 6 – 8pm
DICKINSON / WALSER OPENING RECEPTION This show brings together Emily Dickinson’s original poem manuscripts and Robert Walser’s microscripts for the first time in an art museum setting. Rarely in literature has the manner in which words are made been so integral to the way in which they might be read. The Dickinson / Walser exhibition, which proposes the notion that art may be used to make language, is a fitting corollary to Drawing Time, Reading Time, which appears concurrently in the Main Gallery. Curated by Claire Gilman. Image: Robert Walser, Microscript 419, 1927-28.
Drawing Center 35 Wooster Street New York, NY www.drawingcenter.org
MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND
WINTERTHUR
THE WIZARD CHAMBER SEPTEMBER 7 – NOVEMBER 10, 2013 Kunsthalle Winterthur presents The Wizard’s Chamber with works by Alessandro Brighetti, Wim Delvoye, Braco Dimitrijevic, Oswaldo Macia, Geo Homsy/ Chico MacMurtrie/ Bill Washabaugh, Arnaldo Morales, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Otavio Schipper, Samson Young and curated by Lara Pan. The Wizard’s Chamber is an abstraction which finds an imaginary language between art and science. The exhibition refers to Dr Nikola Tesla’s essay The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun’s Energy and is a union of diverse projects that investigate a unique form of dialogue between art and science. www.kunsthallewinterthur.ch
Contact : Contact: Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, Cultural Department: [email protected] Swiss Links: Consulate General of Switzerland in New York: www.swissconsulatenyc.org Embassy of Switzerland and Swiss representations in the USA: www.swissemb.org General Information on Switzerland: www.switzerland.com, www.swissworld.org www.switzerlandportal.us Swiss News World Wide: www.swissinfo.org Government: www.admin.ch Tourism: www.myswitzerland.com Presence Switzerland (PRS) US-Programs: www.image-switzerland.ch ThinkSwiss: www.thinkswiss.org Swissnex- Swiss network for science and technology: www.swissnex.org Trade and Investment: www.osec.ch
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