GLACIER(S)
Exhibition of works by Bernard Garo and Jacques Pugin
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 18:00.
Vernissage on 4 February at 17:30, featuring film screenings and a panel discussion with the artists, Claude Haegi (moderator), and a distinguished glaciologist.
In collaboration with the FEDRE (Fondation pour l'Economie et le Développement durable des Régions d'Europe).
Organised by Isabelle Muller, GLACIER(S) is an extraordinary exhibition that brings together and interweaves the works of two remarkable artists, Bernard Garo and Jacques Pugin. It centres on their mutual fascination and concerns with landscapes, mountains, and glaciers—their beauty, but also their inevitable transformation due to climate change and the human role in it.
The exhibition explores their artistic and aesthetic universes, their ways of seeing and interpreting the world, and how they share their sensitivities and emotions. It also aims to be a space for raising awareness and fostering a critical eye—a time and place to reflect on fundamental, existential, humanist, political, and vital questions. Powerful and visionary, GLACIER(S) seeks to inspire both thought and action.
Alongside, the young artist Albatros will present works created specifically for this occasion, giving the mountains a voice through his paintings...
Cover: Jacques Pugin, Rhonegletscher (Glaciers series), 100x133cm, 2015