Berne museum stages exhibition on media and art

The Museum of Communication in Berne is staging a joint exhibition with the Berne Art Museum on the artistic relationship between old and new media.

The Museum of Communication in Berne is staging a joint exhibition with the Berne Art Museum on the artistic relationship between old and new media.

The “Pixels, Prints, Pigments” exhibition juxtaposes “old” media, such as painting, graphic reproduction and photography, with more modern media, including video and computer-generated images.

A panorama of landscapes — ranging from 19th century paintings to computer-generated urban scenes – highlights artistic forms of expression then and now.

Among the exhibits are a video installation by Luc Courchesne, digital photographies by Bohdan Stehlik and virtual reality art projects.

Paintings based on photographic models, which characterises the work of Franz Gertsch, are good examples of artistic crossover and mixed forms.

The Berne Art Museum is mainly displaying works from its own collections, which in the context of the exhibition are placed in new and surprising relationships.

The graphic representations, collages, paintings, photographs and videos take as their central theme the interaction between content, its representation and the medium used by the artist.

Amongst the artists represented are Camille-Jean Baptiste Corot, Paul Cézanne, Paul Klee, Franz Gertsch, Markus Raetz, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Donald Judd and Nan Hoover.

The exhibition runs until September 26 at the Museum of Communication. The Art Museum exhibition lasts until October 31.

From SRI staff.