Next

ABOUT

“To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar.“
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Essay on the Origin of Languages (1781), chap. viii.

Gowen is pleased to announce Next, a group exhibition presenting around ten Swiss and international artists. The show includes artists who have either been invited by the gallery, as well as artists with whom it has recently started collaborating along with historical artists from the gallery.

A multitude of universes and languages thrive through which the artists tell stories, conveying the viewer to unreal, ambiguous and dreamlike environments, both near and far. ‘Next’ is equally a term to express the ideaof a passage, of a change, it means ‘which comes after’, ‘the following’ andalso something ‘which is near’. The exhibition leads us on an explorationof dialogues and narratives in which past, present and future coalesce into a flow that comes and goes between fragments of memory and parallel temporal realities.

Works on loan from private collections are included.

IMAGES

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Françoise Pétrovitch , Tenir, 2022, Oil on canvas, 130 x160 cm

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Sébastien Mettraux, Ex Codice #11, 2023, Oil on canvas, 220 x 260 cm

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Sylvie Lambert, Cactus Laineux, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 150 cm. 

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Tami Ichino, Rythme (Alfalfa N.1), 2018, Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 130 cm

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Tess Dumon, Le Voyageur Contemplant une Mer d’Etoiles, 2023, Gouache sur lin, 195 x 130 cm. 

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

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Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Françoise Pétrovitch , Tenir, 2022, Oil on canvas, 130 x160 cm

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Sébastien Mettraux, Ex Codice #11, 2023, Oil on canvas, 220 x 260 cm

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Sylvie Lambert, Cactus Laineux, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 150 cm. 

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Tami Ichino, Rythme (Alfalfa N.1), 2018, Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 130 cm

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Tess Dumon, Le Voyageur Contemplant une Mer d’Etoiles, 2023, Gouache sur lin, 195 x 130 cm. 

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

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Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Françoise Pétrovitch , Tenir, 2022, Oil on canvas, 130 x160 cm

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Sébastien Mettraux, Ex Codice #11, 2023, Oil on canvas, 220 x 260 cm

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Sylvie Lambert, Cactus Laineux, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 150 cm. 

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Tami Ichino, Rythme (Alfalfa N.1), 2018, Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 130 cm

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Tess Dumon, Le Voyageur Contemplant une Mer d’Etoiles, 2023, Gouache sur lin, 195 x 130 cm. 

Next at Gowen Contemporary
Installation view: Next, GOWEN, 2023.  ©Julien Gremaud.

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