On the occasion of the exhibition Painting and Jugs and Frieze downtown night, SI welcomed the inimitable musician John Wiese. We’re delighted to share with you a clip of his performance.

For us, Frieze is still crisp in mind,  mostly due to the great events hosted concurrent to the fair. Sunday evening we welcomed  experimental sound musician John Wiese. He helped us celebrate the closing of Amy Yao’s Potlucks of Destruction Café (installed in the lower gallery), a project developed with Kaleidoscope magazine.

Gianni Jetzer, Clément Delépine, Meret Kaufmann, and Thomas Julier

Amy Yao with fabrics by Adele Roeder and flowers by Anicka Yi

John Wiese-mo-sphere

We’re proud to bring you the next webisode of SI Channel, featuring Painting and Jugs, the exhibition of Bastien Aubry – Linus Bill – Dimitri Broquard – Adrien Horni. Take a peek, and then stop by and see the show in real.

Monday evening we opened Painting and Jugs with a little help from our friends Fabienne Stephan, Lawrence Weiner, Ethan Wagner, and Thea Westreich. They launched the Friends of Swiss Institute USA, and the  folks at Kreëmart  kicked off the event in style.

Alexander Hertling, Host Ethan Wagner, Host Thea Westreich, and David Lewis

Host Fabienne Stephan and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn

Heidi Lee and Friends

Kreëmart's Raphaël Castoriano, Princess Marina Pignatelli, and Host Lawerence Weiner

FOSI US Member Philip Handschin, SI Chairwoman Fabienne Abrecht, Marta Llorente, and Charles Abrecht

Mary Heilman and SI Boardmember Emma Reeves

Kreëmart-mo-sphere

Some flyers spend their trip kicked back,  watching the latest flick or two, others catch up on their book backlog. These artists used their free in-flight moments to create something special. Headed to New York from Zurich to install their forthcoming exhibition Painting and Jugs (opening this Wednesday, May 2), Bastien Aubry, Dimitri Broquard, Linus Bill, and Adrien Horni  capitalized on their free moments to create SWISS inspired artworks— Bill captured a shot of Horni mid-collage, while Aubry and Broquard tried their hand at a post-meal digestif drafting session. In-flight entertainment below. 

Adrien Horni, mixmaster, mid-collage, photo by Linus Bill

SWISS Collage-style

Bastien Aubry, Digestif Drafting, photo by Dimitri Broquard

Aubry Digestif Drawing, photo by Dimitri Broquard

Fresh off the plane, Linus Bill/Adrien Horni and Bastien Aubry/Dimitri Broquard are set to work, readying for the opening of their exhibition Painting and Jugs on Wednesday. See you soon!

Dimitri Broquard and Bastien Aubry

Adrien Horni and Linus Bill

Not all art transports are created equal. Take a sneak peak at the works that will be on display at Swiss. You won’t want to miss this opening of Bastien Aubry/Dimitri Broquard and Linus Bill/Adrien Horni. See you Wednesday, May 2!

Bill + Horni, P. 353, 2012

Bill + Horni Unpacked

Aubry + Broquard, Les Cruches

Painting and Jugs Invite

As part of the exhibition Heart to Hand, MPA and MV Carbon teamed up to perform Lettered Address, conceived of specifically for the exhibition. Here is a snapshot of the performance, which the artists took to the street.

MPA is a feminist and exhibitionist following a living art practice. Her solo and collaborative works focus on performance often in combination with photography, film, text and sculpture.

MV Carbon is a painter and musician living in Brooklyn, who frequently incorporates visuals from her paintings and films into live performance.

To close the exhibition Heart to Hand, MPA and MV Carbon treated viewers to an energy filled sound and movement performance. They called upon and deconstructed the strategies of happenings and fluxes, leaving the gallery and taking the audience with them to the streets. 

MPA

MV Carbon

MV Carbon

Address-mo-sphere

Take It To The Street

Hanna and Klara Liden

Michael Bilsborough and Alex Hudson

Zoe Leonard and Collier Schorr

How is consumer response and artistic action tied to corporate branding? Professor Sonia Katyal visited Swiss Institute and explained how the overarching reach of government influences the relationship between art, commercial speech, and trademark law within the First Amendment. Katyal is the Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where she teaches in the areas of intellectual property, property and civil rights.

You can listen to her lecture below. 

Pati Hertling, Sonia Katyal, and Alfred Steiner

Nina Fasoulidou and Adina Popescu

Gianni Jetzer, Mika Tajima, Howie Chen