EXHIBITIONS

Till 22 September 2019 Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana celebrates one of Switzerland’s most important contemporary artists, Franz Gertsch Swiss artist Franz Gertsch was asked to work with the museum not only as an artist, but as exhibition curator. The artist accepted the invitation and added an unexpected proposal: presentation of his woodcuts in dialogue with works by the artists he considers the absolute masters of engraving at the turn of the twentieth century, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944). This pairing might at first come as a surprise: Gauguin’s and Munch’s woodcuts are small to medium by size,...