We are exhibiting a previously unseen series by the swiss artist Pascal Vonlanthen (*1957), who’s work was the subject of our very first exhibition at the gallery in September 2022. Over the past three years, Vonlanthen has taken large packaging cardboard and unfolded them completely, drawing on the inner parts. Playing with the different zones delimited by the folds of the cardboard flaps, he develops his famous drawn writings, creating interior landscapes and giving new life to the material.
Pascal Vonlanthen
artgenève 2024
24 – 28 January 2024
artgeneve
Booth D40
Palexpo – Genève Route François-Peyrot 30
Preview - January 24, by invitation
Public opening days - January 25 - 28
Since 2014, Vonlanthen has drawn the raw material for his work from the texts, headlines and illustrations of local and international printed newspapers. As an illiterate person with cognitive dysfunctions, he interprets printed typography, advertisements, weather reports and other illustrations by hand. Unlike advertising copywriters who produce data in an attempt to capture our attention, Vonlanthen writes in such a way as to subvert its intelligibility. The collage and appropriation of printed newspapers has its roots in the early works of Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) or in Cubist and Dadaist works (Hannah Höch,1889-1978), and references to media by artists throughout the 20th century right up to the present day (Robert Rauschenberg,1925-2008, Martha Rosler, 1943, Sarah Charlesworth, 1947-2013, Richard Prince, *1949).
Pascal Vonlanthen has his studio at CREAHM in Fribourg, Switzerland.
About the artist
