Monday 30 November 2015

Anne Golaz at Delhi Photo Festival

Swiss photographer Anne Golaz invited by Delhi Photo Festival 2015 to talk about her work.

Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council in collaboration with the Delhi Photo Festival 2015 
present 
a talk by Swiss photographer Anne Golaz 
on 

"Since no one will ever return to the same place" 
on Tuesday 3 November from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 
at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts CV Mess, Janpath, New Delhi 

The talk is an outline of the main moves driving Anne Golaz's photographic practice such as escaping and returning. She will present her unreleased work Raven; a personal body of work that she has developed over the past ten years. Anne will also introduce her Finnish series and her experience in working in an artists' collective. 

For more information on Anne Golaz visit: www.annegolaz.ch 

Direction to the festival: By car: Please make sure that you enter the festival through Gate 1 or Gate 3 of IGNCA. By public transport: the nearest metro stop is Central Secretariat (Gate 2) and you can get an auto rickshaw or shuttle bus, or walk to the venue. 

For information relating to the festival visit: www.delhiphotofestival.com

Sunday 29 November 2015

The exhibition 'Le Corbusier – Mastering the image' comes to Delhi

On the occasion of the 50th death anniversary of Le Corbusier, the Embassy of Switzerland in India brings the exhibition Le Corbusier - Mastering the image to Delhi.

On the occasion of the 50th death anniversary of Swiss architect Le Corbusier, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Embassy of Switzerland in India in collaboration with the Musée des beaux-arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds presents the exhibition 

'LE CORBUSIER - MASTERING THE IMAGE' 
at the Embassy of Switzerland Nyaya Marg, Chanakya Puri, Delhi.
Opening on 6 Nov at 6.30pm 
On view until 23 Nov 2015

Entry by registration only.
Please register at ndh.events@eda.admin.ch to attend. 

About the exhibition 
Visiting the exhibition "Le Corbusier - Mastering the Image", it's over 150 black and white and colored photographs that visitors can discover through its different sections. Many of the black and white photographs have been taken by Le Corbusier himself were shown for the first time in India, enhancing also the importance of Swiss born architect in India, and one of his most important construction of his career, the urban plan development and construction of the city of Chandigarh, in collaboration with his cousin, Swiss architect Pierre Jeanneret, and British architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry.

Curated by the Musée des beaux-arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds the exhibition is a partial adaption of the exhibition "The Constructed image. Le Corbusier and Photography" curated by international specialists of Le Corbusier's work as well as photography that crossed their approach of a subject rarely studied until then. The different sections have been curated by Lada Umstätter (general curator), Tim Benton, Jean-Christophe Blaser, Veronique Boone, Catherine de Smet, Isabelle Godineau, Anouk Hellmann, Michel Richard, Arthur Rüegg, Klaus Spechtenhauser and Sophie Vantieghem. 

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one of the major figures of the twentieth century: his architectural practice and thought have profoundly influenced several generations of architects and urban planners, and his legacy still contributes in shaping contemporary environment.

Throughout his life, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) used images in a variety of ways. His travels were opportunities for him to collect a great many documents that he later used in his work as an architect, urbanist, theoretician and artist. Drawing from this vast iconographic reservoir to illustrate his writings and exhibitions, he developed innovative communication strategies. He supervised the documentation of his creation with a sharp, demanding eye, which makes him the genuine co-author of certain photographs devoted to his architecture.

Moreover, Le Corbusier also experimented with composition and lighting in his personal photographic work, which remains largely unpublished. The recent discovery of thousands of negatives now provides an opportunity to observe his creative processes and confront them with his pictorial work. For the architect, photography thus served both as a means of note-taking and as a tool for experimentation with forms. Beyond his own creative work, Le Corbusier was also one of the first to conscientiously and systematically construct his image and that of his works through the medium of photography, drawing on the work of several renowned photographers for this.

This legacy continues to stimulate contemporary photographers, who now revisit his work with the freedom that historical distance allows. 

Saturday 28 November 2015

Nik Bärtsch to tour India with zen-funk quartet RONIN

Swiss pianist & composer Nik Bärtsch will tour India this November 2015 with RONIN, a quartet that proceeds with the work on his 'ritual groove music'.

Swiss pianist, composer and producer Nik Baertsch will be in India on the invitation of Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council. Nik Baertsch will tour India with the zen-funk quartet RONIN founded in 2001. RONIN proceeds with the work on his RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC together with Kaspar Rast (drums), Thomy Jordi (he replaced Björn Meyer on the bass in 2011) and Sha (bass/contrabass clarinet).

Tour schedule:

DELHI / Thursday Nov 26th 
The Piano Man Jazz Club
Entry open to all 

KOLKATA / Friday Nov 27th 
Jazz Fest 
Entry as per Festival rules

BANGALORE / Saturday Nov 28th 
Jazz in the Garden VR Bengaluru 
Entry as per Festival rules 

GOA / Sunday Nov 29th 
GOA International Jazz Live Festival at 7:00 pm
Entry as per Festival rules

Note: Please visit www.prohelvetia.in for venue details closer to the event. 

About Ronin 
With the zen-funk quartet RONIN founded in 2001, Nik Baertsch proceeds with the work on his RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC together with Kaspar Rast (drums), Thomy Jordi (he replaced Björn Meyer on the bass in 2011) and Sha (bass/contrabass clarinet. Percussionist Andi Pupato joined the band 2002-2012). Their music consistently follows the same aesthetic vision under various instrumental guises: creating the maximum effect by minimal means. Despite the multiplicity of the band's influences, Ronin's music always possesses a strong individuality. They incorporate elements of disparate musical worlds, be they funk, new classical music or sounds from Japanese ritual music.

However, these forms are never merely juxtaposed in a post-modernist fashion but instead amalgamated into a coherent new style. Ultimately, these sounds and rhythms are highly idiosyncratic. The music consists of very few phrases and motives, continually combined and layered in new ways. Ronin thus creates a consistent aesthetic across all levels of musical expression. Composition, phrasing, sound structure, performance, and musical form all combine to form a system of interrelated elements. (Michel Mettler) 

Visit Ronin on Facebook: www.facebook.com/nikbaertschsRONIN 
For more information on Nik Baertsch: www.nikbaertsch.com 
View video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YoHk9zdK0o

Thursday 26 November 2015

Anne Golaz at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology

Swiss photographer Anne Golaz who will participate in the Delhi Photo Festival and Photo Kathmandu invited by Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bengaluru.

Swiss photographer Anne Golaz who is visiting India and Nepal to participate in the Delhi Photo Festival and Photo Kathmandu in November will deliver a lecture at the Faculty Colloquium at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bengaluru. 

Date/ venue: 29 October 2015 // Bangalore 
Faculty Colloquium at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore 

In November, Anne Golaz will be participating in the Delhi Photo Festival in India and Photo Kathmandu in Nepal. 

About the event
Swiss photographer Anne Golaz who will be in South Asia on the invitation of the Delhi Photo Festival and Photo Kathmandu will be travelling to Bangalore to participate at the Faculty Colloquium at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore. 

About Anne Golaz
Born in Switzerland in 1983, Anne Golaz graduated in 2013 from the Photography Master Program of Aalto University of Art and Design in Helsinki. She wrote her master thesis On Photobooks and Narratives. She has also studied at the Photography School in Vevey and has spent 6 months in NYC at the School of Visual Arts.

Her photographic approach deals mainly with the representation of rural communities and questions fundamental notions such as the sense of belonging to a place or the complex relation with nature.

Anne Golaz's first work Rural Scenes has been exhibited in several countries. Her series Chasses (Hunting Games) was published by Infolio in 2010 and was among the selected works for the Aperture Portfolio Prize in New York. Anne Golaz was part of the young photographers selected for the publication and the exhibition ReGeneration2.

Her Finnish series Metsästä (From The Woods) was exhibited for the first time in the Images Festival 2012 in Vevey CH and in several places since then. Metsästä was published by Kehrer Verlag and part of the selection of the best photobooks of 2012 by the Aperture Paris Photo First Book Award.
For complete bio visit: www.annegolaz.ch/bio

Partner: Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology 

For more information: 
on Anne Golaz - www.annegolaz.ch 
on Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology - srishti.ac.in/