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ENGADINE - THEY KEEP ON CALLING - DOUGLAS MANDRY: ZURICH & ST. MORITZ

Past exhibition
5 February - 2 April 2022
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Douglas Mandry Diavolezza III, from the series Unseen Sights, 2022 Acrylic paint on traditional C-Print 100 x 75 cm serial unique piece, Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Douglas Mandry
Diavolezza III, from the series Unseen Sights, 2022
Acrylic paint on traditional C-Print
100 x 75 cm
serial unique piece, Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
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For this exhibition, swiss artist Douglas Mandry spent two years studying the Engadine as an iconic location. In seeking to capture the singular aura of the region, he used both historical material and his own work, incorporating elements of nature and scientific data into his artistic output. An astonishingly diverse series has emerged that shows an exciting blend of experimental approaches.
 
The title of the exhibition is inspired by naturalist John Muir's (1838-1914) famous remark, "The mountains are calling and I must go." Nowadays the quotation is often cited in referring to the distinctive appeal of the mountains. It is this universe and its iconography that Mandry illuminates from a variety of perspectives in his "Monuments" series. Mandry uses the traditional technique of lithography to print early 20th-century photographs of the Engadine glaciers on used glacier protection blankets. These already shows traces of wear after one summer on the ice. The pictures conjure the golden age of tourism and testify to technological efforts to preserve a landscape destined to become extinct in the foreseeable future. 
 
Mandry's series "Unseen Sights" foregrounds the tension between reality and idealized representation. Using collage and the paintbrush, he transforms his photographs of mountains and lakes in the Engadine into atmospheric visions. Light, colour and form: Mandry pulls all the registers in representing, enhancing and estranging the region's visual features. He invokes and subverts our visual expectations that have been fueled by painting and photography. 
 
Another highlight of the exhibition is the premier of a new series of sculptural works, titled "Gravity Flow". In collaboration with the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, the artist measured the hollow cavities hidden under the ice. Using the data acquired with a 3D scanner, the artist transformed these cavities or moulins, as they are called, into massive glass objects - basically presenting an expanded interpretation of photography.

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