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september 18, 2020 - Masi Lugano

HANS JOSEPHSOHN, the sculptures made between 1950 and 2006 at MasiLugano


HANS JOSEPHSOHN

19.09.2020–21.02.2021

Curated by Ulrich Meinherz and Lukas Furrer

The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Kesselhaus Josephsohn in St Gallen, pays tribute to #hansjosephsohn, one of the foremost sculptors of the second half of the 20th century, on occasion of the centenary of his birth. It focuses on a series of brass sculptures made between 1950 and 2006, without claiming to offer a retrospective of the sculptor’s career. The works presented at MASI esemplify the central role played by the human figure in Josephsohn’s art and document all the types that the artist himself used to classify his work: standing, seated and reclining figures, half-figures and reliefs. While real models (mainly female, sourced among his circle of friends and relatives) were the starting point for his sculptures, Josephsohn’s work eschews a realistic approach, favouring spontaneity and liveliness, emphasizing anatomical features and aggregating several viewpoints that make it difficult to identify the frontality of the sculpture. The exhibition layout, designed by the Kesselhaus Josephsohn in St Gallen, has an intentionally provisional, unfinished look, which complements the characteristic spontaneity of Josephsohn’s work.

Until the 15 November 2020 the Museum zu Allerheiligen presents the exhibition «Hans Josephsohn – Schauen ist das Wichtigste» www.allerheiligen.ch

Piazza Bernardino Luini 6, 6900 Lugano 

Press conference Friday September18 10.30 AM

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