Gardiens du silence

A beautifully designed and inspiring, visual-poetic walk into the world of trees and forests in art Artistic representations of trees from the 16th to the 21st century are complemented by poems written especially for this book

Exhibition: Gardiens du silence : évocation poétique des arbres at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, Switzerland (June 21 to October 29, 2023)

Trees and forests are often described as guardians of silence, sentinels of humanity, and wonderful representatives of the plant world. What makes the fascination of trees? How have artists of the past depicted them, and how do women artists represent them today?

This French-language book takes an unusual look at these indispensable creatures of nature. Artistic representations from six centuries—including paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and photographs—demonstrate their beauty and magic. The images are complemented by poems written especially for an exhibition at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, Switzerland, and for this coinciding, beautifully designed volume. Together they form a visual-poetic walk, enabling the reader to experience the forest as a mirror, a refuge, and a source of almost unlimited material and metaphorical inspiration.

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Edited by Beat Stutzer

Book design by Benoit Chevallier, Geneva

Hardback

216 pages, 182 color illustrations

21.5 × 28 cm

978-3-03942-148-0 French / German sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 55.00

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ISBN 9783039421480

First monograph on Swiss artist Ladina Gaudenz, featuring her work of more than three decades

Highlights the painterly finesse, poetry, and empathy that characterize Ladina Gaudenz’s art

Illustrates how Gaudenz’s work is shaped by the poles of periphery (her native Engadine valley) and center (her residential city of Geneva)

Ladina Gaudenz

La face cachée de l’instant

From the outset of her career, Swiss artist Ladina Gaudenz, born in 1962, has been dealing with the close yet fragile relationships between mankind and nature, the environment, and technology. She explores facets and states of these relationships via convincing creative means, resulting in sensual, densely atmospheric paintings, while the boundaries between individual memory, references to tradition, and social commitment remain fluid.

This bilingual French–German book is the first comprehensive survey of Ladina Gaudenz’s work of more than three decades. While painting is at its core, she has also created drawings, murals, and installations. Five essays by Françoise Jaunin, writer and art critic, Rainer Michael Mason, scholar of art history, Seraina Peer, art historian and researcher, Karine Tissot, art historian and educator, and the book’s editor Beat Stutzer discuss the evolution of Gaudenz’s artistic themes, the techniques she employs, her public displays, and the reception of her oeuvre as a whole, placing it in the context of contemporary Swiss art.

Edited by the Federal Office of Culture FOC

Book design by Ard.works, Lausanne /

London

3 booklets in box

144 pages, 49 color and 48 b/w illustrations

22 × 30 cm

978-3-03942-157-2

English / French / German / Italian sFr. 35.00 | € 35.00 | £ 30.00 | $ 40.00

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FEBRUARY 2024 (US)

Swiss design and designers in all fields are highly regarded throughout the world

This is the latest volume in the annual series of books on the Swiss Grand Prix of Design, tracing the history and development of contemporary design in Switzerland

The series forms a continuously growing collection of illustrated portraits of Swiss designers