This November (2007), The Lucerne Festival presents At The Piano, featuring an international cross section of everyone's favorite stylists and grand masters: Alfred Berndel, Maurizio Pollini, Leif Ove Andsnes (with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe), Andreas Haefliger and the Labèque sisters. Also on hand are the specialists: András Schiff (Haydn); miniaturist Marino Formenti and the improvisations of Fazil Say.
It is a prestigious line-up; nonetheless the major star at the Lucerne Festival, as always, is the concert hall itself. The KKL (Kultur und Kongresszentrum Luzern), a 1,840-seat concert hall designed by Parisian architect Jean Nouvel, in collaboration with the late great acoustic designer Russell Johnson of New York, seemingly floats on Lake Lucerne. Nouvel's design comprises striking crisp lines, reflective facades: a spiky modern inflection to the city's old world charm.
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Diplomacy is mostly an intangible thing, so when Andreas Spillman—the new Director of the Landes- museum, Zurich— told his team he wanted to mount an exhibition about Swiss diplomacy, they were presented with a daunting task, "because diplomacy is not something you can actually see" says Pascale Meyer, the show's curator "and also because there are so few objects and so few pictures documenting it." They started with an historical overview. According to Meyer: " We chose different stages in history which were important diplomatic steps Switzerland took. And then we thought about creating an atmosphere which would bring it to the public."
If you click on the "Links" menu item of the Swiss Institute (New York) website, you'll find yourself at once thrust into the curatorial sensibilities of Gianni Jetzer. The links are formatted along the lines of "Top Ten Lists" and toy with the often baffling correspondences of expression found on the internet. These top ten lists also reveal a fascination with the architecture of the everyday.
Helvetica Bold met up with Gianni Jetzer to take stock of his time so far as Director of the Swiss Institute, New York.
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This November (2007), The Lucerne Festival presents At The Piano, featuring an international cross section of everyone's favorite stylists and grand masters: Alfred Berndel, Maurizio Pollini, Leif Ove Andsnes (with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe), Andreas Haefliger and the Labèque sisters. Also on hand are the specialists: András Schiff (Haydn); miniaturist Marino Formenti and the improvisations of Fazil Say.
Diplomacy is mostly an intangible thing, so when Andreas Spillman—the new Director of the Landes- museum, Zurich— told his team he wanted to mount an exhibition about Swiss diplomacy, they were presented with a daunting task, "because diplomacy is not something you can actually see" says Pascale Meyer, the show's curator "and also because there are so few objects and so few pictures documenting it." They started with an historical overview. According to Meyer: " We chose different stages in history which were important diplomatic steps Switzerland took. And then we thought about creating an atmosphere which would bring it to the public."
If you click on the "Links" menu item of the Swiss Institute (New York) website, you'll find yourself at once thrust into the curatorial sensibilities of Gianni Jetzer. The links are formatted along the lines of "Top Ten Lists" and toy with the often baffling correspondences of expression found on the internet. These top ten lists also reveal a fascination with the architecture of the everyday.
