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Skopia Gallery was founded in Nyon in February 1989 by Pierre-Henri Jaccaud. From the start, it has worked with a new generation of Swiss artists, distinguishing itself through its rigorous selection of works and a large number of premières. It has exhibited at Art Basel since 1993.
In 1994, Skopia Gallery relocated to the SIP area in Geneva, a former industrial wasteland now home to the Centre for Contemporary Art and the MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art). Since its first programme, the Gallery has sought to develop contacts with internationally renowned artists, both Swiss and foreign alike.
Gilles FURTWÄNGLER
Musique douce. Disque rayé. Zut.
17.09 – 01.11.25
Vernissage 17.09.25, 18h
20.09.25, 16h
Performance Did you take the dog out? (30 min).
Nicolas Field : Percussions, Gilles Furtwängler : Voix
« Musique douce. Disque rayé. Zut. » est le titre de la nouvelle exposition personnelle de Gilles Furtwängler à la galerie Skopia.
Développant un travail artistique basé sur le texte, Furtwängler utilise les mots comme déclencheurs d’images, il les réorganise arbitrairement et poétiquement, graphiquement ou musicalement, il les scande lors de lectures performatives, les coupe et recolle, les projette et les juxtapose dans des installations, des peintures murales, sur le papier ou la toile. Chargés de couleurs, librement associés ou typographiés, hors de leur contexte, les mots deviennent objets, éléments nouveaux, supports graphiques ou sonores.
En collectant et en ré-agençant mots, slogans, textes trouvés dans notre environnement, Furtwängler réécrit et nous propose une nouvelle lecture. En changeant les contextes, en jouant avec les mots et les phrases, il remet en question sérieusement mais avec humour les messages qui nous entourent.
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“Musique douce. Disque rayé. Zut. ” is the title of Gilles Furtwängler’s new solo exhibition at the Skopia Gallery.
Developing an artistic practice based on text, Furtwängler uses words as triggers for images, reorganizing them arbitrarily and poetically, graphically or musically, chanting them during performative readings, cutting and pasting them, projecting and juxtaposing them in installations, murals, on paper or canvas. Loaded with color, freely associated or typographed, taken out of context, words become objects, new elements, graphic or sound supports.
By collecting and rearranging words, slogans, and texts found in our environment, Furtwängler rewrites and offers us a new reading. By changing contexts and playing with words and phrases, he seriously but humorously questions the messages that surround us.
Légende: Gilles FURTWÄNGLER, La langue très profond dans la bouche, 2021, acrylique sur papier coton, 46 x 61 cm © Gilles FURTWÄNGLER
