In the wind opens this Saturday at 7 pm
The Stämpfli Foundation is launching a new artistic proposal: it consists of eleven flags designed by Peter Stämpfli in the 1990s and which until now had not been exhibited again in public. The exhibition is titled In the wind and can be seen in Room 3, while Rooms 1 and 2 offer around thirty works by different artists from the collection.
In the wind presents eleven flags that Peter Stämpfli designed in the 1990s for two artistic proposals with international projection. On the one hand, they are three banners that he presented in 1995 at the Art en plein air festival, in the Swiss town of Môtiers. The three flags formed an artistic ensemble called Standart and fluttered among the valleys of this small Alpine locality, on the occasion of a festival held every four years and which, after some uncertainty, will return in 2026.
The other eight flags took part in the renowned International Contemporary Art Fair of Paris (FIAC) in 1997. In this case, they were placed in a fully urban setting, in the Eiffel – Branly area, with the iconic image of the symbolic Parisian tower in the background.
The eleven flags are of the same size (200 x 190 cm) and made of the same tricot-polyester material. They come in various colors (from yellow to black) and are designed with the usual tyre tracks that characterize the work of Peter Stämpfli.
The installation will open on Saturday, 17 February, at 7 pm. The exhibition will remain on view until the end of the summer.
A sample of the general collection in Rooms 1 and 2. In addition to In the wind, the Stämpfli Foundation also offers a broad display of its general collection, with around thirty works by different artists. It is the same installation that has been on view in recent months while the Foundation has exhibited Vibrances.
Room 1 presents eight artists who took part in the Narrative Figuration movement (Gianni Bertini, Mark Brusse, Henri Cueco, Gérard Fromanger, Peter Klasen, Jacques Monory, Bernard Rancillac, Peter Stämpfli and Jan Voss) and four others (Christian Jaccard, Peter Knapp, Jean Le Gac and Claude Viallat) characterized by their ingenuity and creative capacity.
Room 2, for its part, displays works by artists with different confluences: those who chose to renew geometric abstraction or those who ventured into the paths of minimalism, conceptual art, kinetic art and the neo-avant-gardes. They include the French artists Pierrette Bloch, Philippe Cazal, François Dufrêne, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Jean-Michel Meurice, Olivier Mosset, Jean-Michel Sannejouand, Pierre Tilman, Gérard Titus-Carmel and Jacques Villeglé; the Belgian Mark Brusse, the Catalan-American Tom Carr, the Venezuelan Carlos Cruz-Díez, the Italian Marco Del Re, the Argentine Antonio Seguí, the Korean Kim Tschang-Yeul and the Serbian-French Vladimir Velickovic.
