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SWISS EVENTS

IN NEW YORK
AND IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE U.S.
for the period of October 25 November 7, 2012
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HIGHLIGHT
Saturday, November 3
7:30pm

THE VOCAL ELEMENT
US PREMIERE OF SECHS LIEDER

As a legendary oboe virtuoso, Swiss
composer Heinz Holliger naturally turns to
song. Here, his stunning, early song cycle -
recently orchestrated by the composer - is
paired with a selection of sublime Schubert
songs adapted for orchestra by Brahms and
others. Works by Faur and Mozart, two
composers celebrated for their lyrical gifts,
sing with the resources of orchestra alone.
Performance featuring soprano Heather
Buck.
Image: Heather Buck Lisa-Marie
Mazzucco
Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall
New York, NY
www.lincolncenter.org
MUSIC
Thursday, October 25
7:30pm

CLAUDE DIALLO
CONCERT

Swiss jazz pianist and composer Claude
Diallo performed all over the world and is
now back in New York to present his new
original compositions and re-arranged jazz
standards. Diallo performs together with Ari
Hoenig on drums and Curtis Ostle on bass.
Image: Claude Diallo
ShapeShifter Lab
18 Whitwell Place
Brooklyn, NY
www.shapeshifterlab.com

Tuesday, October 30
7:15pm

ELINA DUNI QUARTET
CONCERT

The Elina Duni Quartet performs at Drom
with Elina Duni (voice), Colin Vallon (piano),
Adam Hopkins (double bass) and Norbert
Pfammatter (drums).
Image: Elina Duni Blerta Kambo / ECM

Drom
85 Ave A
New York, NY
www.dromnyc.com
Monday, November 5
9pm

MANU KOCH GROUP LIVE
CONCERT

Swiss keyboardist and pianist Manu Koch is
presenting new compositions and music from
his debut album Triple Life. As performer and
participant in various genres, ranging from
Brazilian to North and West-African sonic
cultures, Manu has been on the New York
music scene and touring internationally for
over a decade and blends many influences
into one funky, jazz-inflected amalgam of
global electronic music.
Image: Manu Koch
ShapeShifter Lab
18 Whitwell Place
Brooklyn, NY
www.shapeshifterlab.com

VISUAL ARTS
Thursday, October 25
6:30pm

SWITZERLAND: CROSSROADS OF
EUROPEAN CULTURES
LECTURE

Consul General, Ambassador F. Barras
will give a lecture on Switzerland: Crossroads
of European Cultures at the Neue Galerie in
conjunction with the acclaimed exhibition by
Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler.
Image: Ferdinand Hodler, Two Women in
Flowers, 1901-02.
Neue Galerie
1048 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
www.neuegalerie.org
Thursday, October 25
6 - 8pm

MADELEINE GEKIERE
EXHIBITION OPENING

Fred Torres Collaborations is pleased to
present Madeleine Gekiere: A Lifetime of
Sketchbooks, featuring 20 sketchbooks
compiled by the artist throughout her life.
Image: Madeleine Gekiere from Sketchbooks
Fred Torres Collaborations
527 West 29
th
Street
New York, NY
www.fredtorres.com
Through October 26

ANNELISE STRBA AND ADRIAN SCHIESS
EXHIBITION

Jason McCoy Gallery is pleased to present a
collaboration between the Swiss artists
Annelies Strba and Adrian Schiess. The
project, which was originally sparked by an
exhibition at the Museum Langmatt in Baden,
Switzerland in 2011, remains ongoing.
Image: Untitled, pigment print and
watercolor.
Jason McCoy Gallery
41 East 57
th
Street
New York, NY
www.jasonmccoyinc.com
Through October 26



H.A. SIGG
THE LEGACY: A RETROSPECTIVE
EXHIBITION

H.A. Sigg's elegant abstract paintings
engage in a mysterious and mystical
dialogue between the forces of nature and
his inner meditations. A strong awareness of
the artist's hand in brushwork and gesture
places him firmly within the traditions of
Abstract Expressionism and European post-
war abstraction, recalling but powerfully
revising those practices, to fuse Asian and
Western traditions. The exhibition, curated by
Amy H. Winter, will be on view until Oct. 26.
Image: H.A. Sigg, Green Room
Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Queens College, CUNY
Flushing, NY
www.qcpages.qc.cuny.edu

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September 13.

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Through October 27

QUATTRO
EXHIBITION

Phoenix Gallery presents Quattro, a group
show including Swiss/American artist Marie-
Louise McHugh.
Phoenix Gallery
210 11
th
Avenue
Suite 902
New York, NY
www.phoenix-gallery.com
Image: Painting by Marie-Louise McHugh
Through October 27

ROBERT FRANK
EXHIBITION

Danziger Gallery is pleased to present the
first exhibition of Robert Frank photographs
from the Pennwick Foundation Collection.
Selected from a group of over 1,000 prints
acquired in 1978, the works are part of one of
the earliest and most comprehensive
collections of this most important figure in the
history of the medium, focusing on the
seminal images created by Frank in London,
Paris, and America from 1949 to 1962.
Image: Robert Frank, Paris, 1951.
Danzinger Project
527 West 23
rd
Street
New York, NY
www.danzigerprojects.com
Through October 28

JOHN ARMLEDER
EXHIBITION

Swiss Institute proudly presents Selected
Furniture Sculptures 19792012, the first
New York solo show of John Armleder in
eight years. The exhibition features highlights
of an open chapter in the Swiss artist's
oeuvre, showcasing the breadth and vision of
the furniture sculptures from 1979 to the
present. Curated by Gianni Jetzer.
Image: John Armleder, Untitled, 1990
Swiss Institute
18 Wooster Street
New York, NY
www.swissinstitute.net


Through October 28

NIC HESS
INSTALLATION

Commissioned by Swiss Institute, Nic Hess
has designed a site-specific mural which
begins on faade and extends outward to
encompass the rolling screen shutter. This
strategy maximizes all possible surface area
and presents viewable art during the daytime
as well as evening hours.
Swiss Institute
18 Wooster Street
New York, NY
www.swissinstitute.net


Through November 3

TIMELINE: WORK IN PUBLIC SPACE
EXHIBITION

Dia Art Foundation will present a new work
by Thomas Hirschhorn, Timeline: Work in
Public Space at the site of the future
Dia:Chelsea project space. Timeline, a large-
scale collage of images, written statements,
and text excerpts, chronicles the artist's
interventions at urban and rural sites. It will
be presented in anticipation of Hirschhorn's
Gramsci Monument, the fourth and final
project of Hirschhorn's Monument series, that
Dia will present in summer 2013 in New
York.
Image: Thomas Hirschhorn, Plan Moi
Dia:Chelsea
541 West 22nd Street
New York, NY
www.diaart.org

Through January 7, 2013

FERDINAND HODLER
EXHIBITION

Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity is the
largest American exhibition ever devoted to
this major Swiss artist. Hodler was admired
by such Austrian artists as Gustav Klimt and
Egon Schiele, whose work is essential to the
Neue Galerie collection. The organizing
curator for the Neue Galerie is Jill Lloyd, a
distinguished scholar who has assembled
several important shows for the museum,
including Van Gogh and Expressionism. The
exhibition is co-organized by the Fondation
Beyeler, Basel, where it will be on view from
January 27 to May 26, 2013.
Neue Galerie
1048 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
www.neuegalerie.org
Image: Ferdinand Hodler, The Grammont,
1917.
ARCHITECTURE
Tuesday, October 30
12pm

ARCHTOBER BUILDING OF THE DAY:
MARINERS HARBOR NEW BRANCH
LIBRARY
Lorenzo Pagnamenta, AIA and Anna
Torriani, AIA, of Atelier Pagnamenta Torriani
Architects Planners LLP will lead a tour of the
Mariners Harbor New Branch Library. Please
note that the library will be in the final stage
of construction. Hardhats will be provided
and sturdy footwear is required.
Mariners Harbor New Branch
Library
206 South Avenue
Staten Island
http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?se
ction=calendar&evtid=4758






Through January 28


BORN OUT OF NECESSITY
EXHIBITION

The Architecture and Vision project
DesertSeal from the permanent collection of
the MoMA New York is on display again this
year in the show Born out of Necessity.
DesertSeal is an iconic design by
Architecture and Vision, an architecture and
design practice established by the Italian
architect Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect
Andreas Vogler. The exhibition is organized
by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, and Kate
Carmody, Curatorial Assistant, Department
of Architecture and Design.
Image: DesertSeal
MoMA
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY
www.architectureandvision.com

LITERATURE
Thursday, November 1
6:30pm

BERNARD COMMENT
BOOK SIGNING

Bernard Comment will present his book The
Shadow of Memory: A Novel Reading with a
book signing at Book Culture on Thursday,
November 1st at 6:30 pm.
Image: Bernard Comment
Book Culture
536 West 112th Street
New York, NY
www.frenchculture.org
DESIGN
Through November 17

TYPES WE CAN MAKE
EXHIBITION OPENING

The exhibition Types We Can Make is a
selection of contemporary Swiss typeface
design curated by ECAL/University of Art &
Design Lausanne (Switzerland), in
association with The Herb Lubalin Study
Center of Design and Typography. With the
explosion of digital media and international
communications, type design has attracted
new designers and artists to the field. Swiss
designers, in particular, have historically
contributed to the development of modern
type, (Helvetica was created in 1957 by a
team of Swiss designers) and their legacy is
explored in this exhibition as new designers
draw on the past. The exhibition is on view
through November 17, 2012.
Image: Typeface: Brown Regular Inverted by
Cooper Union
Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square
New York, NY
www.cooper.edu



Aurle Sack, Picture: ECAL/Luke Archer &
Reto Schmid
COMING SOON
Thursday, November 8
7 - 10pm

WE'RE STILL HERE, YOU BASTARDS!
EXHIBITION OPENING

Beginnings in Brooklyn presents the
exhibition by Geneva-based B..L.b comix
entitled We're still here, you bastards! The
exhibition will be on view through November
11, 2012.
Image: B..L.b comix
Beginnings
110 Meserole Ave
Brooklyn, New York
http://www.beginnings-nyc.com
Tuesday, November 13
6:30pm

CHRISTOPH SIMON
READING

Deutsches Haus presents a reading with
Swiss author Christoph Simon. Simon will
read excerpts from his latest novel Zbinden's
Progress (Spaziergnger Zbinden) and
speak about his life and career as an author.
The event will be bilingual; the author will
read in German, translated into English by
Donal McLaughlin. The conversation
between Christoph Simon and Donal
McLaughlin will be moderated by the
acclaimed translator Susan Bernofsky.
Image: Christoph Simon
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
New York, NY
www.deutscheshaus.as.nyu.edu
MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND
BASEL

AVO SESSION
OCTOBER 26 NOVEMBER 15

Experience the unique club-like atmosphere of the music festival AVO SESSION
Basel. This year's line-up includes big names such as Dionne Warwick, The
Steve Miller Band, Rod Stewart and many more. For a complete list of
performances, please visit www.avo.ch
Image: Dionne Warwick
ZURICH

JAZZ ON JAZZ
OCTOBER 31 NOVEMBER 3

The 14
th
Annual Zurich International Jazz on Jazz Festival presents John
McLaughlin, Anouar Brahem, Marcus Miller, Larry Carlton and US-Icon
Esperanza Spalding, as well as Funk-Bands such as Incognito, Earth Wind &
Fire Experience and Nicole Willis Soul Investigators and many more.
www.jazznojazz.ch
Image: Esperanza Spalding
Contact :

Contact:
Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, Cultural Department: nyc.culture@eda.admin.ch

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