Photographic-Literary

Bern- and Geneva-based Aebi & Vincent Architects have made a name for themselves with housing designs as well as with the restoration and reconstruction of major historic public buildings in Bern and Zurich

The book offers an unusual literary–photographic encounter with the works of Aebi & Vincent Architects

Encounter with Buildings by Aebi & Vincent Architekten

For more than 25 years, Swiss architects Bernhard Aebi and Pascal Vincent have been running their practice with offices in Bern and Geneva. Housing is one of the firm’s main fields of activity, yet it has also won a number of high-profile public commissions, such as the restoration and reconstruction of Switzerland’s national parliament building in Bern, the renovation of the Swiss National Bank’s Bern headquarters, and the south wing of Zurich’s main train station.

The images by photographers Adrian Scheidegger and Alexander Jaquemet, both longtime companions of the architects, demonstrate how the spaces they created gradually and naturally integrate with their environment. Writer Gianna Molinari joined Scheidegger and Jaquemet on their expeditions to Aebi & Vincent’s buildings. Her literary snapshots supplement the images in this volume, stimulating our imagination of the inner life of these structures and their occupants.

Edited by David Khalat

Book design by Bruno Margreth, Zurich

Hardback

196 pages, 84 color illustrations

20 × 27 cm

978-3-03942-149-7

English / French / German / Italian sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00

AVAILABLE (Europe)

FEBRUARY 2024 (US)

Print Art Now

Edition VFO 1948–2023

An up-to-date survey of contemporary printmaking in Switzerland

Explores the topics of collecting prints today, technical and artistic challenges of printmaking, and the emancipation of print as a genre withing the traditional hierarchy of visual art

Includes an essay on printmaking as a collaborative art practice and its political component

Edition VFO, founded in 1948, is Switzerland’s most significant publisher of original print editions

Exhibitions: Print is a Battlefield at the Museo Civico Villa dei Cedri in Bellinzona (until August 20, 2023), and Ein Unikat in Serie at the Kunsthaus Grenchen (September 10, 2023 to January 28, 2024) ment der in den engsten Kurven gerade einmal sieben Meter breiten Fahrbahn – und damit auch die Sicherheit der auf ihr verkehrenden Gespanne gewährleistet werden. Die Chaussee verdankt ihre Festigkeit und Langlebigkeit dem bis heute erhaltenen Granitpflaster. Dank der neuen Infrastrukturen konnten im Sommer ein täglicher Postkutschendienst und im Winter ein regelmässiger Postschlittendienst betrieben werden. Mit dem Durchbruch der Axenstrasse im Jahr 1865 war liche Transit-Art als Kriterien zugrunde, so bildete die der Alpenpässe. Von 1860-1880 spielten Pässe die Rolle, die sie seit Urzeiten gespielt hatten, in einem neuen Ausmass und sie regelrechte Pässe-Kultur entstehen. Doch wie oft folgt der Niedergang kurz nach dem Höhepunkt. Sieg über den Pass: Alfred Escher und sein Werk bahnverbindung. Das erste Projekt über den Gotthard weiter modernisiert, doch weitsichtige Planer halten sie grundsätzlich bereits für veraltet, weil sie nur von Pferdewagen befahren werden können. Alfred Escher (1819-1882) hatte dies deutlicher erkannt als alle anderen: Langsam aber sicher baute er das «System Escher» auf, das wichtige Ämter und Funktionen, Politik und Wirtschaft zusammenschloss.

Edition VFO, Verein für Originalgraphik (Association for Original Prints) was established in 1948 to pursue the goals of publishing contemporary art and making collecting affordable to broader audiences. The Zurich-based, much-recognized non-profit institution remains committed to the dissemination of contemporary art, and is now the largest of the few remaining publishers of original printed editions in Switzerland.

Print Art Now marks Edition VFO’s 75th anniversary. It brings together three exhibitions in Switzerland, at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, the Museo Civico Villa dei Cedri in Bellinzona, and the Kunsthaus Grenchen, all curated on the occasion of the jubilee. They respectively explore the topics of collecting prints today, the technical and artistic challenges of printmaking, and the emancipation of print as a medium within the traditional hierarchy of visual art. The featured artworks demonstrate how print is constantly evolving as an artistic technique and has become equal to painting, photography, sculpture, or video. The beautiful volume also offers an up-to-date survey of printmaking in Switzerland and highlights its relevance in contemporary art practice.

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Edited and with photographs by Richard von Tscharner

Book design by Bernard Stackelberg, Sixty Six Communication Design, Carouge

Hardback approx. 264 pages, 50 color and 84 b/w illustrations

32 × 32 cm

978-3-03942-162-6 English

978-3-03942-156-5 German sFr. 79.00 | € 77.00 | £ 75.00 | $ 85.00

OCTOBER 2023 (Europe)

MARCH 2024 (US)

The French edition is being published by Infolio editions, Gollion

English German