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<title>Expatica - Swiss What's On</title>
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<title>Rajasthan – Könige und Krieger (King and Warriors), 15/05/2009 - 10/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Museum Rietberg Park-Villa Rieter, Zurich | Exhibition about Rajasthan the &amp;amp;lsquo;Land of Kings&amp;amp;rsquo;, situated in the Indus Valley in the northwestern part of India, telling the story of its great warriors and their chivalry. The Hindu courts in Rajasthan had no choice but to forge an alliance with the Muslim Mughal rulers that had invaded India in the 16th century. The artists working in the workshops at the royal courts of Bundi, Kota, Udaipur, Jaipur and Jodhpur were thus confronted with the stylistic innovations of painting in the Mughal capitals. The artists were stimulated by the new trends in painting and mostly produced religious series of paintings which combined their local style of painting with the more naturalistic approach of the Mughal artists.]]></description>
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<title>Post Mortem. Ten creators rethink the funerary urn , 31/07/2009 - 31/12/2009</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Muse de Design et dArts Appliqus Contemporains, Lausanne | Exhibition presenting modern design funerary urns by ten designers, exploring - via the prototypes conceived by the artists - the way in which creation approaches cremation. All the urns on show are produced by Matteo Gonet, a Swiss glass artist and designer. Death is omnipresent yet people avoid direct contact with those lifeless corpses which confront us with our own fragility. The funerary urn, an object made to preserve the deceased ashes and dissimulating them in a neutral container, belongs to our diversionary tactics: over-elaborate ritualisation or, on the contrary, an aseptic and depersonalised relationship. ]]></description>
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<title>Geneva a la Force de l’eau  , 28/08/2009 - 12/04/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Musée d'histoire des sciences , Geneva | Exhibition about the working of the hydraulic forces in Geneva, focusing on the watermills on the river banks of the Rhone and l’Arve as well as in the city itself, that where important for the industry in the 19th and 20th century. ]]></description>
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<title>Help! Social Appeals in Posters, 28/08/2009 - 10/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Plakatraum - Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich | Exhibition of international posters created since 1980 which remind us to assume responsibility for humanity and for our planet. The show highlights various visual strategies and the rhetorical communication of social messages in the poster. Whereas the non-commissioned artists&amp;#039; poster is committed to enlightenment, posters from human rights, environmental protection and aid organizations aim directly to change the actions of individuals. However, in recent years businesses have also discovered social and ecological commitment as a marketing tool to cultivate their image. Due to its social effectiveness, the poster has always been an ideal medium to direct appeals of global explosiveness and an ethical dimension towards the public.]]></description>
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<title>Michel Comte , 30/08/2009 - 03/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich | First survey exhibition of the work of the Swiss advertising, fashion, and society photographer Michel Comte (b. 1954) showing the diversity of an oeuvre encompassing the glamorous world of superstars, advertising and photo journalism from the poorest regions of the world. Comte was discovered by the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, and received commissions to work for brands such as Ungaro, Dolce &amp; Gabbana, and Nespresso. Self-taught, he now runs studios in Los Angeles, Paris, and New York. Numerous famous advertising campaigns are based on Comte’s photographs. In addition, he has been photographing figures from the worlds of art, film, and show as Sophia Loren, Tina Turner, George Clooney, Louise Bourgeois or Carla Bruni.]]></description>
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<title>Monica Bonvicini / Tom Burr , 05/09/2009 - 03/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel | Exhibition of the work of the Italian-born contemporary artist Monica Bonvicini (b.1965) and the American artist Tom Burr (b. 1963). They both share an interest in the functional purposes of social spaces and their psychological, social and gender-specific conventions. This mutual interest manifests itself in very different types of photographs, drawings, sculptures and installations. Common to the work of both artists is the question of the dynamics of power reflected in architecture, behaviour and action. Enthusiasm for the almost libidinous quality of surfaces and materials is a further bond between Bonvicini and Burr’s artistic output. The juxtaposition of their works brings out both the similarities and the contrasts between their aesthetic strategies. ]]></description>
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<title>Treasures from Ancient Gandhara, Pakistan , 06/09/2009 - 03/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Werner Abegg Gallery-Museum Rietberg, Zurich | Major exhibition of Gandharan art, focusing on stone reliefs depicting the life of the Buddha. On show are some 270 objects such as stone sculptures, highly detailed reliefs, precious coins and elaborate jewellery – introducing the visitor to the art of the ancient kingdom from the 1st to the 5th century AD. The presentation highlights the multifaceted artistic production of Gandhara under Kushan rule and explores the rich artistic heritage of the region, a melting pot of many different cultures. The show places Gandharan art in a wider context, from the establishment of Greek culture in the region to its legacy in Central Asia and present-day Afghanistan. This legacy garnered worldwide attention when the gigantic rock-cut Buddha sculptures of Bamiyan were destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001 (travelling exhibition earlier in show in Bonn and Berlin). ]]></description>
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<title>Fury and Grace. Guercino , 22/09/2009 - 22/11/2009</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern | Monographic exhibition about the work of the Italian Baroque painter and draughtsman Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), who was called &quot;Il Guercino&quot; by his contemporaries because of his squint. The show comprises a selection of 50 sheets from all periods of his oeuvre and all genres - figure and compositional studies, landscape and genre scenes - and 42 drawings by his workshop staff and successors. In addition to many well-known masterpieces the exhibition also includes numerous sheets that have as yet never been published or shown. In order to give an artistic context, the exhibition is complemented by a small selection of drawings by those Bolognese artists who influenced Guercino, namely, Ludovico and Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni and Domenichino. ]]></description>
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<title>Paul Wiedmer – Fire and Iron , 22/09/2009 - 24/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Museum Tinguely, Basel | Exhibition of the work of the Swiss artist Paul Wiedmer (b. 1947) who has worked as a sculptor since the Seventies. Fire and iron are his main means of expression. In 1968 Wiedmer met Jean Tinguely in Paris  and from 1969 on collaborated with him, Daniel Spoerri, Niki de Saint Phalle and many other artists on the immense surreal walk-in sculpture ‘Cyclop’ in the woods of Milly-la-Forêt. In 1973, he took part in the realisation of Tinguely’s work Chaos No. 1 in the USA. Interaction with the viewer, movement, the reuse of scrap materials characterise Wiedmer’s work. ]]></description>
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<title>Modestes , 23/09/2009 - 24/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Musee International de la Croix-Rouge  et du Croissant-Rouge , GRENOBLE | Exhibition of portraits and stories of women in the Middle East: Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Syria, Gaza and the West Bank, presenting photographs by the by the French reporter Alexandra Boulat (1962-2006). The pictures feature 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. ]]></description>
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