DISTORTED BODIES

Galerie Knoell presents Distorted Bodies, a group exhibition with five Swiss women artists: Miriam Cahn, Sonja Sekula, Meret Oppenheim, Irène Zurkinden and Eva Aeppli. Entitled Distorted Bodies, the exhibition assembles selected paintings, drawings and sculptures by the artists, which deal in depth with the fantasies and aporias of the corporeal in their oeuvre. The works range from the post-war period to the late 1990s. One exception is an early, exceptionally rare composition of two reclining bodies by Irène Zurkinden from 1933. With her casually - almost carelessly - thrown brushstroke, the painter, who was barely 30 at the time, demonstrates how quickly she was able to adopt the modernist aesthetic of interwar Paris and transform it into an independent artistic expression.