Exhibition
Millennium Art Gallery is pleased to welcome the exhibition and sale "Painting the Sky" by the Franco-Colombian artist Carlos Nariño until May 6th, 2024.
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We are delighted to welcome you to our exhibition space and share our passion for art with you. Come explore new artistic frontiers and discover an inspiring world where each exhibited piece tells a unique story, within the modern and welcoming setting of our gallery.
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Ongoing exhibition
Peindre le ciel
Carlos Nariño
The exhibition "Painting the Sky" presents an exceptional selection of recent works by the Franco-Colombian artist Carlos Nariño, who specializes in the depiction of landscapes. Known for his large-scale works capturing with strength and emotion the immensity of the skies, Nariño is compared to great masters like Turner, Corot, Boudin, and Monet.
Born in Bogota in 1957 and settled in Paris since 1985, Carlos Nariño is an artist-painter trained at the Bogota School of Fine Arts and then at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Having worked at the Louvre as a restorer of masterpieces by artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Carlos Nariño has exhibited in numerous galleries and salons in France, Colombia, and the United States. His works are part of several public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in Bogota, which considers him the "new painter of clouds." Carlos Nariño is represented in Switzerland and Europe by Millennium Art Gallery
Dates: February 19th to April 19th 2024
Vernissage: Wednesday, March 13, from 5pm - free entrance
Favorites
Millennium Art Gallery is pleased to present several favorite artists whose works have been the subject of temporary exhibitions.
From New York City to Switzerland
Charles Fazzino
Fazzino is one of the most popular 3D artists in the world. For over thirty years, he has captivated private collectors, galleries, auction houses, and contemporary art enthusiasts with his vibrant, playful, and sparkling relief representations.
His works shine a spotlight on iconic cities, starting with his own, New York, which he depicted from the early days with a playful eye and great attention to detail. He has also created works featuring celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Alfred Hitchcock, Walt Disney characters, sporting events, and other popular subjects.
As the founder of the 3D Pop Art movement in the late 1970s, Fazzino is renowned for his innovative style, unique technique, and distinctive sense of composition.
Face à face
Luna Ribes
The "Face à Face" exhibition by Swiss artist Luna Ribes features portraits of young women inspired by various artistic styles, merging pop art and naïve art with vibrant colors and bold perspectives. Her female figures also evoke the work of Margaret Keane, but Luna Ribes brings a unique energy and humor to her portraits. These young women, famous or anonymous, express their personalities through hairstyles, outfits, and accessories adorned with Swarovski crystals.
Luna Ribes developed her artistic talent in England and at the School of Fine Arts in Milan, exhibiting worldwide from Saint-Tropez to New York, with an unmistakable style and a dazzling color palette.
Dualities
Marie-Amélie Chéreau
Marie-Amélie Chéreau is a painter and author.
The "Dualities" exhibition showcases a collection of her latest works and highlights themes that are dear to the artist, such as the search for light, the reconciliation of dualities, and the quest for meaning in life.
Her creative process is highly impulsive, primarily using a palette knife to create thick and dynamic textured works, where the abstract mixes with figurative elements. Her favorite subject is the journey from darkness to light, somewhat akin to a healing process.
Marie-Amélie Chéreau makes the invisible visible in her paintings, bringing unity to disintegration and creating a positive vision of life that she aims to convey to the viewer through her works.
Millennium fait son cinéma
History of the Cannes Festival
« Millennium fait son cinéma » exhibition offers you the opportunity to discover or rediscover iconic photographs of cinema stars who have left their mark on the history of the Cannes Film Festival.
The exhibition presents a collection of iconic photographs of Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Jean Paul Belmondo, Romy Schneider, Catherine Deneuve, and many others. These photographs capture the golden age of French cinema, immortalizing the eternal beauty of these celebrities through official (or stolen!) snapshots, notably collected by Daniel Angeli, known as the "King of Paparazzi."
Many photos that made magazine covers will be on display, offering an immersion into a world of glitz that the photographer captured over a career spanning nearly sixty years.
It's spring
Yatchi
Yatchi is a contemporary artist of Japanese origin, residing in French-speaking Switzerland since the 2000s.
Yatchi is known for her mastery of various painting techniques, including watercolor, acrylic, and oil, and her style blends traditional and contemporary elements of Japanese culture. In her work, a constant dialogue between audacity and tradition, lightness and depth, slowness and dynamism unfolds.
Her works are marked by an exploration of nature and meticulous attention to detail. Her paintings reflect the diversity of landscapes in the Lake Geneva region and the natural scenes that surround it. Flowers, Lake Geneva, and the mountains are recurring motifs, revealing both her love of nature and her wonder at the fleeting and ephemeral beauty she finds there.
Circles of Life
Alexia Weill
The circle is a recurring geometric shape in the work of sculptor Alexia Weill. She works it like mandalas in various materials, including stone, wood, bronze, and resin. She imparts her energy to it through her ever-renewed imagination with each creation.
This symbol is found in many cultures: Indian, Tibetan, Native American, Aboriginal, Oceanic, African, Celtic; mandalas are a symbolic representation of cosmic harmony.
Alexia's circles are always pierced at their center, revealing an opening, a window to reality, like a breath, a fixed point in a constantly moving world.
For the Millennium art gallery, Alexia presents for the first time a collection of carved and colored wooden circles in which she has engraved her emotions and sensations through various shapes: lines, curves, hollows, with each stroke being the expression of a conscious gesture, imprinted in the material like a mantra ready to deliver its message.
The colors also express vibrations from which one can capture emotion and that will transport us into the universe of its creator.rer son message.
The Joy of Marylin
Sam Shaw
Renowned American photographer Sam Shaw (1912-1999) is best known for his photographs of movie stars and the cultural life of New York in the 1950s and 1960s. He began his career as a fashion photographer, then worked for advertisements, magazine covers, and advertising campaigns.
Shaw became famous for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe, especially those taken during the filming of "The Seven Year Itch" in 1954. He also worked with other film stars such as Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, and Paul Newman. Shaw continued to photograph until his retirement in 1995. His works are part of numerous art collections, including the Library of Congress in the United States and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Superheroes
Marvel & DC Comics
Millennium Art Gallery presents an exhibition dedicated to Marvel and DC Comics superheroes. From Superman to Catwoman, Batman to Spiderman, they will all be featured in this unique expo until January 31st.
This exhibition offers a fresh perspective on the iconic characters from these fictional universes, thanks to street artists and comic book authors like Walter Minus.
The gallery offers original paintings, limited edition screenprints, art prints, and collectible figurines from iconic brands like Iron Studio and Hot Toys for sale.
Come immerse yourself in the world of your favorite heroes!
An Eye on Music
Richard Bellia
Some say he's radical, meticulous, or eccentric, but everyone recognizes his incredible talent: Richard Bellia is undoubtedly one of the world's best rock photographers. His weapon of mass subversion: a Hasselbald, the pinnacle of analog cameras.
Rock fans, you may think you've seen it all, but prepare to be surprised when you discover the black and white photographs of McCartney, Madonna, The Cure, David Bowie, James Brown, The Clash, Serge Gainsbourg, and even Nirvana... His prints have become just as iconic as the rock legends he photographed.
Born in France in 1962, it was in October 1980, at a Cure concert, that Richard Bellia decided to become a rock photographer. A specialist in the British music scene since 1985, Richard Bellia has worked for Melody Maker, New Musical Express, and later for Les Inrockuptibles, Libération, and Arte in France.
At the Millennium in Lausanne-Crissier, Richard Bellia presents his most beautiful shots, spanning 40 years of legendary concerts and encounters with the biggest figures in international rock. This collection is filled with intimate backstage portraits, photos taken on stage, and amidst the electrified fans,
Jazz tracks
Patrick Piccinelli
Born in 1959, Patrick Piccinelli is a Swiss artist. From the beginning, Piccinelli has been interested in unusual beauty, aesthetic astonishment, which forms the foundation of his artistic work.
His works reveal abstract compositions that exalt colors and materials. "A successful painting should be like a celebration, a moment of enchantment for the viewer."
Piccinelli likens his field of expression to that of jazz musicians whose music improvises from a melody and rhythm. The music of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Bley is a true source of inspiration and forms the sonic backdrop of his studio. These musicians exhibit great rigor and incredible freedom of expression that never cease to amaze him.
He explores the dialogue between structure and randomness in a constant search for balance that he calls "parasitic minimalism." Starting from a geometric composition, the artist's brush disrupts the structure, playing with it gently and joyfully, sometimes melancholically, generating tremendous creative energy.
Liquid sculptures
Murat Kunt
Murat Kunt is a Swiss scientist of Turkish origin. He is known for his research and teaching in the general field of digital image and video processing at EPFL.
Murat captures images that cannot be seen: liquid sculptures just a few centimeters in size that exist for a very short duration, on the order of one millionth of a second.
Combining macrophotography and liquid art techniques, Murat tames fluid mechanics and produces incredibly beautiful images.
His artistic approach reflects 35 years of dedication to digital signal and image processing. Murat continuously experiments with liquid-based techniques and develops his own methods to maintain his relationship with water, a central element in his life that has shaped his identity.
Drops of water dance, color themselves, meet, mix, form fountains, and crowns, creating unique liquid sculptures.
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