Art & design

Exhibition by Mathias Balzer and Barbara Heé at the Stadtgalerie

28. October 2021

The Mathias Balzer-Caspar Foundation presents the exhibition "Mathias Balzer and Barbara Heé" at the Stadtgalerie Chur from 30 October to 12 November 2021.

On display are colorful works by Mathias Balzer (1932-2012), who was awarded the Bündner Anerkennungspreis in 1982 and dedicated major retrospectives in Chur and Berlin in 2003 and 2009. Using various image carriers and sophisticated techniques, the works shown focus on alpine and forest landscapes and clouds. They were all created on the Schmittner Alp, which played an enormous role for Balzer from the 1960s onwards: as a source of inspiration of the first order, a refuge and a home. In dialogue with large-format drawings by Barbara Heé (*1957), Balzer's work is detached from its narrower Grisons environment. The St. Gallen-born artist, who was awarded the Swiss Art Scholarship in 1985, among other things, dealt with the Grisons mountain landscape in a series of photographs, particularly in 2010. She is now presenting her latest works in Chur: A Mikado of lines that made their way across wood as a natural building material and join together on paper to form organic energy fields.

The vernissage will take place on Friday, 29 October from 6 pm, with an introduction by Christian Gerber and Jürg Fritzsche in conversation with Barbara Heé, followed by an aperitif.

Opening hours of the Stadtgalerie from 30 October to 12 November 2021
Sat and Sun 10 am - 4 pm
Tue to Fri 4 pm - 7 pm

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