GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The work of some of the world’s finest cartoonists is bringing freedom of expression into the open, literally, along the Quai Wilson in Geneva, 10 June to 10 July, with a display of some 100 posters on large panels made available by the city of Geneva. Four cartoonists from countries where major news events have occurred since the start of 2011 are included.
Cartoonists No-Rio, Patrick Chappatte, Khalid Gueddar and Kianouch Ramezani (missing: Lassane Zohoré)
The four, in Geneva at the invitation of the Geneva-based Cartooning for Peace Foundation, are meeting the public Saturday morning 11 June from 10:30-12:30 at an aperitif/public opening: No-Rio from Japan, Khalid Gueddar from Morocco, Lassane Zohoré from Cote d’Ivoire, Kianouch Ramezani from Iran who is now in exile in Paris.
Most of the posters have been published in the cartoonists’ home countries. They cover human rights, armed conflicts, North-South inequalities, climate change, censorship and taboos.
Patrick Chappatte, cartoonist for the International Herald Tribune, Le Temps and NZZ, whose work appears regularly on GenevaLunch, is the artistic director.
The Foundation for Peace, a Swiss organization, was founded in 2010 with an initial CHF50,000 grant from the Swiss Foreign Affairs Department. Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general, is the president of honour and French cartoonist Plantu is the president. Some 90 cartoonists from around the world are members.
Geneva and Cartooning for Peace to offer world cartoon prize
The foundation and the city of Geneva announced at the inauguration of the exhibit Friday that they will begin offering a “Cartoons for Peace” prize, the first of which will be awarded in the spring of 2012.
It will go to a living cartoonist for his or her exceptional contribution in the areas of human rights, press freedom, freedom of expression or related area, with particular consideration given to cartoons published in a political censorship context.
The winner will be given an individual exhibit or web site as a prize.
BERN, SWITZERLAND – AP news agency reports Tuesday 7 June that Albert Einstein and Confucius won’t be part of a joint museum exhibit in Shanghai after talks ended between the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum and Bern’s Historical Museum. The Bern museum’s exhibit on Einstein, a son of the city, is currently on tour in Hong Kong, and Shanghai was interested in hosting it next, but wanted to add to it a large exhibit on Confucius, which the Bern museum says would not be possible, given the difficulties of putting up a travelling show and the short timeframe.
The exhibit, which has appeared in Beijing and Guangdong, is the same as the one that drew 350,000 visitors in Switzerland. It was put together, according to Swissworld, to mark the 100th anniversary of the theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein was living in Bern in 1905 when he developed the famous formula E=mc2 “and thus turned our previous concept of space and time on its head” notes Swissworld.
Guided Tour in English : Step by step : The Ariana
Musée Ariana. Entrance free of charge, without reservation.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://genevalunch.com/geneva-living/2010/10/05…
Date: 24 Oct 2010
From "Esclavage domestique", portraits of domestic slaves, photos by Raphael Dallaporta, Imaginaid 2010
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Stories of household slaves make headlines only sporadically, such as this one 25 August 2010, where a Sri Lankan woman who had worked for one month as a maid in Saudi Arabia had 23 nails removed from her body. Her employer had tortured her before she escaped and returned home. The reality is often less dramatic, yet traumatic, within arm’s reach and a part of what on the surface is mundane daily life in cities like Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich.
Expect to see it all around you soon in Geneva, thanks to a public spaces exhibit, “Esclavage Domestique”, portraits (12 photos and 12 stories) of household slaves who have escaped, from 6-29 September.
Title: Exhibit: Women, earth & cosmos
Location: Geneva
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Description: Exhibition of paintings by Olga Sinclair.
Start Date: 2010-05-17
End Date: 2010-05-31
Title: Nigerian artists exhibit
Location: Geneva
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Description: Three contemporary Nigerian artists exhibit their work at the UN in Geneva.
Start Date: 2010-03-29
End Date: 2010-04-16
Title: Photo exhibit: Congo women
Location: Geneva
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Description: Congo Women: portraits of war and women.
Start Date: 2010-03-04
End Date: 2010-04-26
Title: “Modest: portraits and stories of women in the Middle East”, Int. Red Cross Museum
Location: Geneva
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Description: (free, 10-17:00 daily except Tuesdays) From one country to another the photographs taken by reporter Alexandra Boulat (1962-2006) show the world Muslim women live in, together with the differences in their status and the roles they play: war victim, refugee, political militant, academic, TV anchorwoman, teacher at the women’s police academy or oriental baby-doll. These are portraits permeated by their subjects’ everyday struggle to survive, stay healthy and feed and take care of their children.
Start Date: 23 Oct 2009
End Date: 01 Jan 2010
Title: Exhibition: Grazia La Padula
Location: Geneva
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Description: The Italian artist Grazia La Padula will exhibit 60 illustrations in Geneva for a short period of time.
Start Date: 17 Sep 2009
End Date: 14 Oct 2009
Title: Photograph exhibit: People’s faces
Location: Thonon, France
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Description: Olivier Marchetti’s photographs of French actor and director Valère Novarina will be exhibited in Thonon, France until the end of September.
Start Date: 25 Aug 2009
End Date: 25 Sep 2009
Title: Artist Jo Meynent exhibit and sale
Location: Geneva, Salle d’exposition Jules Crozier, Palais d’Atheénée, 2 rue de l’Athénée, 1205 Geneva
Link out: Info: 076 495 0287, TPG bus No. 3 and 7 (Athénée stop)
Description: Artist Jo Meynent shows his most recent works in the Palais de l’Athenée, his second solo show in two years. Preview (vernissage) Tuesday 01 Sept after 18:00*** Brunch Sunday 06 Sept from 11:00, with concert duo “Les Frères Bouclier” (violin and accordeon) at 13:00
Start Date: 31 Aug 2009
Start Time: 13:00
End Date: 12 Sep 2009
Self-portrait with Japanese print, December 1887
Images courtesy of Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. Click on images to view larger
By Bob Evans
Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - “In landscapes, Van Gogh found the peace of mind and balance that was missing from his own life.”
Visitors to a stunning exhibition at Basel’s Kunstmuseum this summer could be excused if they found reason to quibble with this assertion from its curators as they emerge from the 70-painting survey of the Dutch artist’s frenetic 10-year career in the last-but-one decade of the 19th century.
A European cultural event of the year
But there is no doubt that the show in this 1,000-year-old art-mad city is a European cultural event of the year.
“Vincent Van Gogh-Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes” has already attracted a record for the Kunstmuseum, one of the continent’s recognized greats, with 250,000 people from around the world in the initial 90 days of its five-month run.
Billed as the first-ever exhibition to cover landscapes from every period of Van Gogh’s work, it ranges from the dark tones of the 1881-85 Brabant rural scenes through to the bright but restrained northern French country views of the frenziedly-productive three months in Auvers before he shot himself in July 1890 on a walk through the fields.
Farmhouse in Provence, June 1888
Cornfield in Provence, June 1888
In between, it covers the bright cityscapes and suburban vistas of his two years in Paris from 1886-88, the blooming orchards and deep-blue sky-and-yellow- wheat Provence harvest scenes of his eventful year in Arles, and the menacing cloud swirls and twisting trees of the 12 months he spent as a patient in the psychiatric hospital at St Remy.
Title: Exhibition: Greece, ligth and freedom
Location: Geneva
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Description: At the Voltaire Institute and Museum. A pictorial account of Greece in the Ottoman Empire.
Start Date: 01 Jul 2009
End Date: 26 Sep 2009
Title: Exhibit: Passions partagées, from Cézanne to Rothko
Location: Lausanne, Vaud
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Description: From Cézanne to Rothko, 20th century masterpieces
in private Swiss collections.
Start Date: 26 Jun 2009
End Date: 25 Oct 2009
Title: Exhibits: Celtic art and Albert Einstein
Location: Bern
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Description: Celtica art: An exhibit of some 450 Celtic treasures from all over Europe. Magnificent jewellery and richly decorated utilitarian objects made from bronze, iron, silver and gold, precious grave goods and cult objects with complex patterns or representations of fantastic beings testify to the masterly artistic creation achieved by the Celts.
In the same museum Albert Einstein’s life as a permanent exhibit. Einstein was living in Bern when he created his famous formula E=mc2 and revolutionized conceptions of space and time.
Start Date: 20 Jun 2009
End Date: 18 Oct 2009
Title: Exhibition: My homeland is within my soul
Location: Geneva
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Description: At the Palais de Nations, an exhibit of 40 paintings belonging to a private 20th-century art collection.
You must reserve in advance by calling: +41 22 917 22 94
Start Date: 11 Jun 2009
End Date: 17 Jul 2009
Title: Exhibition: Rare documents and books
Location: Lausanne, Vaud
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Description: At the Cantonal and University Library an exhibit of rare documents received in the past two years.
Start Date: 11 Jun 2009
End Date: 20 Sep 2009
Title: Swiss photography from the 1930s
Location: Prangins, Vaud
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Description: The exhibition showcases a visual confrontation between pictorialists and modernists.
Start Date: 05 Jun 2009
End Date: 25 Oct 2009
Title: Exhibition: Niki’s box of secrets
Location: Lausanne, Vaud
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Description: A hands-on exhibit for kids of all ages.
Start Date: 03 May 2009
End Date: 21 Jun 2009
Title: Exhibition: The Swiss Army knife – a tool that’s become an icon
Location: Schwyz
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Description: This exhibition examines topics such as knives and superstition, and features unusual examples such as a pistol knife and the largest and smallest pocket knives.
Start Date: 16 May 2009
End Date: 18 Oct 2009
Title: Exhibit: South of Italy in Switzerland
Location: Geneva
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Description: Artist Fiore Galati brings to Geneva the colors of Italy through his exhibit at the Cite du Temps.
Start Date: 16 May 2009
End Date: 16 Jun 2009
photo, Sophia Pereira
by Sofia Pereira and Melanie Miranda
Geneva, Switzerland (Collège Voltaire student newspaper) – In 2009 there are some important birthdays and events to celebrate them: the 500th birthday of John Calvin and the 450th anniversary of the Collège de Geneve. Can you imagine them being so old?! Let’s go back in time: during the 16th century some people, inspired by Martin Luther’s ideas, wanted to establish what would become the Protestant religion. Calvin didn’t agree with the Catholics of the day because he felt they obliged believers to pay for their salvation. He believed that salvation was a gift from God. Calvin, a French reformer, arrived in Geneva in 1536.
Title: Exhibition: La Ruche, city of artists
Location: Evian, France
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Description: La Ruche, city of artists is an exhibition encompassing 87 years of art at the heart of Montparnasse in Paris.
Start Date: 01 May 2009
End Date: 10 May 2009
Title: Exhibit: Van Gogh – The landscapes
Location: Basel
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Description: An important retrospective of Vincent Van Gogh in the Kunstmuseum of Basel.
Seventy paintings –famous and rarely seen works– will give a completely new insight into van Gogh’s body of work.
Start Date: 26 Apr 2009
End Date: 26 Sep 2009
Title: Exhibitions: Swatches, watches and masks
Location: Geneva
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Description: Three exhibitions at the Cité du Temps:
- Touch your time by Tissot
- The mask dance by Y. Shimizu
- And the Swatch collection permanent exhibition.
Start Date: 22 Apr 2009
End Date: 22 May 2009
Title: Exhibition: A question of identity
Location: Geneva
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Description: Wondering how identities are defined? Check out this site and under “vernissage” you will find pictures of the upcoming exhibition that will make you think twice about your identity.
Start Date: 22 Apr 2009
End Date: 10 May 2009
Title: Europ’art’09
Location: Geneva
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Description: europ’art’09, the international art show of Geneva, will take place from 22-26 April, 2009 in Hall 2 of Geneva Palexpo.
This vintage year of 2009 will mark the 18th edition of this event.
Start Date: 22 Apr 2009
End Date: 26 Apr 2009
Title: Exhibit: Fellini dreams of Venice
Location: Morges, Vaud
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Description: At the Alexis Furel museum a collection of never before published photographs and posters by the Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini.
The museum is open only from Wednesday to Sunday from 14:00 to 18:00 only.
Start Date: 26 Mar 2009
End Date: 02 Aug 2009
Title: Photography Exhibit: Stigmata
Location: Geneva
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Description: An exhibition organised by the Musee de l’Elysee, and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum highlighting pictures of people and places dealing with situations of crisis.
Start Date: 09 Mar 2009
End Date: 26 Jul 2009
Title: The origins of photography
Location: Vevey, Vaud
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Description: In Vevey, the first phase of the new permanent exhibition reminds visitors how exciting and innovative early photography was.
Opening reception 25 March. The exhibit will take place until 31 December 2010.
Start Date: 25 Mar 2009
End Date: 27 Apr 2009
