For the first time at Gstaad ARTHANGAR – the NewYork based curator Romeo Bucher brings together the works by three quite different but closely related artists. His grandfather Carl Bucher, his mother Seraina Feuerstein and his father, Mayo Bucher. Romeo’s legendary grandmother Heidi Bucher is currently a part of an exhibition at the Gagosian gallery in Gstaad. The works presented together give a glimpse into former epochs and two generations of prominent Swiss artists recognised worldwide.

The hangar is in daily use as a working hangar for customers of Swiss company Mount10. “Clients from all over the world travel here, and four times a year we host an art exhibition with works by artists that we love and collect ourselves”, says Hanspeter Baumann. “I met Romeo last year when he was visiting together with a Mount10 customer”. “The Landing, one of Carl Bucher’s larger works, requires a lot of space and light. I saw a big airy space, perfect architecture and in addition, it was a place where planes landed – it was the perfect fit! Hanspeter and I decided to collaborate and introduce these artworks to Gstaad and the Mount10 community”, says Romeo Bucher.

He explains, “I immediately saw that the hanger would be perfect for Carl’s work but I didn’t want to do a solo show. I kept leaning towards the space and flying theme and realised that two works of my father, Mayo Bucher, would fit: Apollo Graibh and the Wings. We now had two strong male artists with concrete shapes, I wanted to soften it up with more natural forms. As the hangar is surrounded by powerful nature and lots of green colours, I added in the natural and deep green works of my mother, Seraina Feuerstein. The art complemented each other well, and she balanced out the fundamental and concrete shapes of Mayo and Carl’s works and added some air. Non intentionally it became a family exhibition, providing a glimpse on art of two generations of Swiss artists and also telling our family story”.

“I discovered that in Gstaad there is a profound love for art and culture; in particular fine art seems to appeal to the community, so sharing the works of my family made a lot of sense. I knew that the sophisticated works by these three artists would resonate and find a new audience and fans”, concludes Romeo.

Book an appointment to see the exhibit. All the artworks are for sale and the ARTHANGAR is open for everyone by appointment until the end of December 2022. Contact Hanspeter Baumann at hanspeter.bauman@mount10.ch for a viewing. Read more about the artists and their works below.

JEANETTE WICHMANN

ABOUT THE ARTISTS @ ARTHANGAR

 The Swiss sculptor and painter Carl Bucher (1935 – 2015) was a traveller, working in his own duty to explore and liberate humanity and its surroundings. He belonged to the Swiss art avant-garde during the 1960’s and 1970’s. From today’s perspective, his works became universally valid and in their own way they form part of a cosmic whole. A healthy relationship between human beings, earth and all creatures was very important for Carl Bucher, as he was terrified by injustice. His earth-bound creations witness the physical power of their formation. They also contain and leave real traces of biographical content.

 Carl Bucher alias Carl Lander developed his legendary Landings between 1963 and 1972, inspired by the space flights of the Americans and Russians. It was the time of the space craze, and Bucher’s glossy, varnished Landings were particularly successful abroad. Landings, painted, finely graduated reliefs, which until 1970 are also varied into fully plastic. In the 1970s, he transferred the subject into fully sculptural, phosphorescent objects and wearable sculptures, which Carl created together with his wife, artist Heidi Bucher. 

 After important Solo presentations in the USA and Canada, among others, in 1971 at the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, and in 1972 at LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Twice at the Kunsthaus Zürich (1967/1975). In 1975 he is rewarded the 1. Prize of the international jury Biennale Xlll São Paulo representing Switzerland. Carl Bucher’s works can be found in numerous public and private collections worldwide — carlbucher.com

  Seraina Feuerstein finds herself on the path through the woods, mountains and branches in search of her personal landscape. Color and its nuances, light and its radiance, as well as the elements in their diverse emanations are internalized and registered as an artistic repertoire.
The dialogue between the various elements, their radiations, atmospheric and temporal changes and adjustments, she thinks in terms of mutually dependent color antipodes. She takes from nature the objects that she presents in form and coloration. The material she uses concretely serves her as a mediator between original and material. In this respect, her working method is highly experimental and driven by the curiosity of discovery. Continuously a process is pushed on. Each work conditions the next. Nuances and layers come to life on top of and next to each other, they interfere and speak to each other. The question of an inner or outer world arises. She creates an imagined reality and carries it into the corresponding dimension. In the abundance of perception she is always interested in the reduction to the essential. Knowing about the manifold possibilities of expression, her works are constantly created in the selection of variants, but constantly it is the condensate of a momentary field of vision, which she works out hard with brush, sponge and squeegee or with the bare hand. Seraina Feuerstein has also limited herself to the essentials in her choice of colors. Almost strikingly, she describes the environment in the series of works "Forest" primarily in rich green tones. The color has an emotional and associative effect. One suspects something alive, tangible. A harmonious division of the painting surface into a vertical and horizontal geometry seems intuitively given. To what extent Seraina Feuerstein envisages the merging of one's own consciousness with imagined reality remains to be seen where the nature leads to a regenerative process and to a minimalist condensed school of vision. 

  In the ARTHANGAR, the swiss-mountain born artist calls her exhibited works on paper or wood "Wallflowers", where she allows herself to break the monochrome corset by bringing visible splashes of colour and playful random forms. The series is created with recognizable lightness repetitive in the technique and individual in the single shaping. True whims of nature, inspired by the observation of life in the undergrowth, creatures are able to break the compactness of the surface, rebel and flow on the painting surface. With the traces of pigment that fan out, Seraina Feuerstein reaches for her fund of form and colour, which can be discovered in all manifestations, because just as life, the decoding of the monochrome surface is colourful. These essential beautiful and equally abstract expressionistic works are at the same time poetically filigree. The random compositions invite the viewer to let their associations run free. The experimental is in the foreground - a nature-inspired play with form, colour and light reflection. www.serainafeuerstein.ch

  Mayo Bucher main interest is to focus on the intersection of fine art towards architecture, communication and transcultural identity. The idea of the "Collage" has been an ongoing and essential part of his work. Consequently, the artist brings together images and things out of different contexts – thus creating new meanings. At the Arthangar, Mayo will be showing a completely new series of mostly large-scale, mixed-media paintings and collages. mayobucher.com