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Almine Rech

Visages

Feb 12 — Mar 16, 2025 | Gstaad

Opening on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 from 5 to 8 pm

Almine Rech Gstaad is pleased to present ‘Visages’, a group show on view from February 12 to March 16, 2025.

Karel Appel, Georg Baselitz, Miriam Cahn, Nina Childress, Genieve FiggisGünther Förg, Françoise Gilot, Marie LaurencinPablo PicassoRichard PrinceKenny ScharfClaire Tabouret, Francesco Vezzoli, and Andy Warhol.

In this show of portraits—each work different from its neighbor, in each artist’s distinctive style—the group of faces assembled produces a scattershot crowd that suggests a tentative community, a speculative international public that is at turns discombobulated, bawdy, dispassionate, flirtatious, disfigured, fierce, chic, brooding, haunted, energetic, and absurd. One beautiful—or anguished, joyful, sleepy, withdrawn, thoughtful—face can contain the whole world within its bounds. And it is beautiful, a face is always beautiful the way animals are all beautiful through the force of their existence: that unique material mass and presence, with all its textural and chromatic detail, is a true representative of breeding and evolutionary lineages—real, in the flesh, alive. There are no ugly animals, not really. Existence, in and of itself, is beautiful.
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— Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, writer, curator, and publisher

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Selected artworks

  • Miriam Cahn,                                      Körperdichte, 1997-2001

    Miriam Cahn Körperdichte, 1997-2001

    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm
    20 x 36 x 1 in

  • Karel Appel,                                      Portrait of Machteld , 1966

    Karel Appel Portrait of Machteld , 1966

    Oil on canvas
    160 x 130 cm - 63 x 51 in (unframed)
    164 x 132 x 4.5 cm - 64 1/2 x 52 x 2 in (framed)

  • Georg Baselitz,                                      Willem de K., 2018

    Georg Baselitz Willem de K., 2018

    Oil on canvas
    166.4 x 101 cm - 65 1/2 x 40 in (unframed)
    167 x 102.2 x 4.1 cm - 65 3/4 x 40 1/4 x 1 5/8 in (framed)

Artists