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Carl Bucher (1935 - 2015) The Swiss painter and sculptor Carl Bucher was a traveller, working in his own duty to explore and liberate humanity and its surroundings. He dedecated most of his artistic career to visualize the idear of humanism. He belonged to the Swiss avantgarde during the 1960ies and 1970ies, later he became a zeitgeist, being present and compassionate about the current domestic and international political events. From today’s perspective his works became universally valid and in its own sense they form part of a cosmic whole. A healthy relationship between humans beings, earth and all creatures has been very important for Carl Bucher, as he was terrified by injustice.
| Carl Bucher | |
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| Born | Carl Bucher
1935
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| Died | 2015 (80)
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| Nationality | Swiss / Canadian |
| Education | Studied Law at the University of Zurich |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Spouse(s) | Heidi Bucher 1960 ending in divorce in the late1970s |
| Website | carlbucher.com |
Biography edit
After important solo presentations in the USA and Canada, among others in the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, 1971 and in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1972, Carl Bucher’s work was also shown in two exhibitions in the Kunsthaus Zürich, i.e., in a major solo exhibition 1975 and prior there to in 1967. At that time his concise „Landings“ were in the focus, the maturation of which is portrayed in the works of the current exhibition developed Carl Bucher’s fossilized figures may be found in the museum of the Red Cross in Geneva and in front of the European Court for Human Rights in Strassburg. Recently, Carl Bucher was prominently represented in the exhibition „Swiss Pop Art“ exhibition in the Aargauer Kunsthaus in 2017.
Solo exhibitions edit
1962 Club Bel Etage, Zurich
1963 Galleria d’Arte Santacroce, Florence
1966 Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
1968 Galerie im weissen Haus, Winterthur
1968 Galerie Bernhard, Solothurn
1969 Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
1970 Galerie d’Art Moderne, Basel
1971 New Smith Gallery, Brussels
Gallery Moos, Toronto, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Rothman’s Art Gallery of Stradfort, Ontario, Canada
1972 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
“Landings”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1973 Ester Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
1975 Kunsthaus Zurich
1976 Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (together with Rolf Iseli and Urs Lüthy)
1978 Galerie Schlégl
1979 Galerie Numaga, Auvernier
1981 “Stadt und Skulptur. Carl Bucher”, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany (retrospective)
1982 Galerie Maurer, Zurich
1984 Galleria del Naviglio, Milan
1988 Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich
1992 “Art 23 ‘92”, Galleria del Naviglio, Milan
Galleria del Naviglio, Milan
1995 Art Room, Lengnau AG, exhibition to mark Carl Bucher’s 60th birthday
1997 “Carl Bucher. Versteinerte Lebenszeichen”, Galerie Andy Jllien, Zurich
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Schaan, Liechtenstein
2001 Galeria La Villa, Teguise, Lanzarote
2002 “Carl Bucher”, Galerie Andy Jllien, Zurich
2005 “Carl Bucher. Skulpturen, Bilder”, Galerie Christine Brügger, Bern
“Carl Bucher. Zum 70. Geburtstag”, Galerie Andy Jllien, Zurich
2011 “Carl Bucher. Skulptur und Malerei”, Schloss Greyerz, Gruyères, Switzerland
2015 “Carl & Heidi Memorial Exhibition”, Curuna Ardez, Ardez, Switzerland
2016 “Hommage à Heidi Bucher und Carl Bucher”, Kulturort Galerie Weiertal, Winterthur, Switzerland
2019 “Early Works and Hope”, PLUTSCHOW GALLERY, Zurich
Selected group exhibitions edit
1961 “Zürcher Künstler” at Helmhaus, Zurich
1964 “Perspectiven”, Galerie Handschin, Basel
1964 “6 Artists of Galerie Suzanne Bollag”, Molton Gallery, London
1967 “Unter 40. Schweizer Maler, Bildhauer und Gestalter in zwei Ausstellungen”, Galerie d’Art Moderne, Basel Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
1968 “Wege und Experimente. 30 junge Schweizer Künstler”, Kunsthaus, Zurich “Wege und Experimente. 28 junge Schweizer Künstler”, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Linz, Austria, and Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria “Zürcher Künstler im Helmhaus Zürich. Abstrakte und nichtfigürliche Richtungen”,
Helmhaus, Zurich
Pulchri Studio, The Hague
“Collection Peter Stuyvesant”: le Musée dans l’usine, Cultureel Centrum Maastricht, Holland
“Neue Tendenzen”, Galerie Wengihof, Zurich
1969 “Dimensionen 1969”, Galerie d’”Art Moderne, Basel
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
1971 “The Swiss Avant-Garde”, The New York Cultural Center, New York
1972 / 75 “Terre des Hommes”, Montreal
1973 “Group of Sculptures”, Vancouver Art Gallery
1975 6th Swiss sculpture exhibition, Biel
13th São Paulo Biennale (together with Rolf Iseli and Urs Lüthi).
1976 Swiss sculpture exhibition, Vira Gambarogno
“Kunstszene Zürich”, Kunsthaus Zurich
“Aspekte der Kunst der Gegenwart”, Kunsthalle Mannheim
1977 “Artistes Zurichois”, Musée Rath, Geneva
“FIiegen – ein Traum – Faszination – Fortschritt – Vernichtungswahn”,
Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen
1978 “Kunstszene Zürich 1978”, Künstlerhaus am Karlsplatz, Vienna
“lll. Biennale der Schweizer Kunst: Aktualität – Vergangenheit”,
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
“Sculpture Today / Canada”: 10th International Sculpture Symposium, Toronto
“Art 9’78”, Galerie Schlégl, Basel
1979 “Kunst auf dem Wasser”, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug
Art 10’79, special exhibition of Swiss art since Giacometti, Basel
Art 10’79, Galerie Schlégl, Basel
15th São Paulo Biennale: Special exhibition of previous prizewinners, São Paulo
1980 7th Swiss sculpture exhibition, Biel
“Espaces”, Maison de la Culture, Le Havre
“Reliefs”, Kunsthaus Zurich
“Pop Art und verwandte Strömungen in der Schweiz”, Kunstsammlung der Stadt Thun, Thunerhof, Thun
1983 “Wer zeigt sein wahres Gesicht?”, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
1990 “Passagen. Skulptur in Bad Ragaz”, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
1991 “Memento Monumenti”, Centre PasquArt, Biel
1992 “Im Bereich des Möglichen. Kunst der achtziger Jahre aus öffentlichen und privaten
Sammlungen”, Centre PasquArt, Biel
1998 “Spurensuche – Das Bild des Menschen in der Schweizer Gegenwartskunst”,
Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon (SZ), Switzerland
2000 “Bad Ragartz. 1st Schweizerische Triennale der Skulptur”, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
2003 “Bad Ragartz. 2nd Swiss Triennale of Sculpture”, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
2004 “Être. Les droits de l’homme à travers l’art”, United Nations, Geneva
2005 “Skulpturenausstellung. 48 Kunstschaffende aus der Schweiz”, Schüpfen, Switzerland
“OpenArt 05”, Roveredo, Grisons, Switzerland
2006 “Bad Ragartz. 3rd Schweizerische Triennale der Skulptur in Bad Ragaz and Vaduz”,
Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, and Vaduz, Liechtenstein
“Skulptur ‘06”, Villa Mettlen, Muri, Switzerland
“Swiss Pop”, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
“OpenArt 06”, Roveredo, Grisons, Switzerland
2008 ‘68 – Zürich steht Kopf. Rebellion, Verweigerung, Utopie”, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum,
Pfäffikon (SZ), Switzerland
2013 “Biennale Skulpturen-Symposium”, Galerie Weiertal, Winterthur
2015 "Hommage to Heidi Bucher & Carl Bucher" Curuna Ardez
2017 “Swiss Pop Art – Formen und Tendenzen der Pop Art in der Schweiz 1962– 1972”, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Awards edit
1964 / 76 Federal grants
1967 / 68 Grants from the Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation
1970 / 71 Grant from the Arts Council of Canada to fund a 15-month stay in Canada.
Lives in Montreal and Toronto.
1975 1st International Jury Prize at the 13th São Paulo Biennale