The art fair dedicated to established and emerging artists from French-speaking Switzerland, with a variety of original works.
Dates : March 1 to 23
Time : Every day from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Vernissage : March 1, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Venue: Exhibition Hall - Villars Palace
The second edition of Art Fair - Rencontres Artistiques Romandes, organized by ACT 1895, brings together a selection of established and emerging artists from French-speaking Switzerland, for a show rich in discovery and emotion. The fair showcases a wide range of artistic media, from painting and sculpture to photography and digital art.
Visitors will have the opportunity to discover original and inspiring works, each artist offering a unique perspective on the world around us. This edition stands out for the quality of its works, all imbued with a strong local flavour, and for the interaction it offers with the artists during the vernissage.
Art training at the Hochschule für Kunst und Design Zurich. Atelier La Vire, Avenue de la Gare 3, Gryon (CH). Atelier Chartreuse, 23 avenue du Belvédère, La Croix Valmer (F)
The light of Provence, the scents, the sea, the clouds and the wind inspire me. I reconcile this inspiration with my emotions, letting the colors superimpose layer upon layer.
Sophie lives and works in Bex. Preferring abstraction, she nevertheless draws inspiration from the natural world around her. She blends figurative elements - mountains, forests, plants, lakes and rivers - with mists of abstract color. An alchemy that skilfully superimposes figurative and abstract geometric elements. Sometimes texture and color take over from the figurative, and a new universe emerges.
Archy is a Swiss artist who lives and works in the canton of Vaud. Born in 1988, he has been creating images and objects from pop culture since 2020. Cinema, music, television and fashion all feed the collective imagination with their icons. He recovers the signs to create new ones, formatted and standardized, while preserving their meaning and language. His minimal, unchanging graphic approach reduces these entertainment archetypes to their simplest expression. Claiming to be a Pop Art artist, Archy uses bright, contrasting colors, infusing his works with the same power of attraction as his subjects.
Her name derives from the Arabian tale of Scheherazade, the princess from “A Thousand and One Nights”. With a name like that, you can imagine how exciting her life was destined to be. It's a life where she realized that anything was possible as soon as she decided not to let fear guide any of her decisions. And that's how she came to create her ceramic brand “Jungle in the City”. Her brand is a wish for our concrete cities. A wish to see every inch of our metropolises covered with plants, flowers and trees.
As a complementary therapist for 20 years now, he has always been naturally drawn to the various forms of expression of body, mind and emotions. Painting has accompanied him for many years now, as a resource of great importance in his own personal journey of evolution and development. His paintings are quite varied in style, depending on the period in which they were created. This reflects the sensations, emotions, feelings and trials that everyone can experience and go through at some point in their lives.
Travel journal: 'I'm delighted to present an extract from my travel journal, a reflection of my artistic explorations. I've chosen to work in black and white, an aesthetic that has always appealed to me for its timelessness and timelessness. For many years, I have had the pleasure of developing my own photographs in my laboratory, which has enriched my practice. This notebook is dotted with encounters, as I attach great importance to human relationships in my daily life.'
Her work is born of inner sensations permeated by the mystery of connections. The links we forge with others, with nature, with the world around us. For 12 seasons now, She's been walking, wandering and admiring the Villars region. The exceptional panorama thrills her senses. What interests her is trying to transcribe these vibrations, letting my feelings speak for themselves, in a spirit of discovery. Pigments have been the basis of her work for several years now. The resulting materials play with depth, lightness and transparency. Pictorial gestures are invited into a musical atmosphere where the whole body can accompany them, or else only the hand evolves. Silky, shimmering strokes of oil pastels tell a fragment of a story.
A self-taught painter, Zdenka Palkovic continues a tradition that began three generations ago in her family. As a teenager, Zdenka attended the Bratislava School of Fine Arts for five years. Many years went by before the desire to paint won her over again and she took classes with various Swiss artists in Geneva and Lausanne. Since 2008, she has been expressing herself fully through painting, and her work has evolved considerably: starting with portraits, she is then captured by nature and its wonders, contemplated on her travels around the world, and finally finds a certain exaltation in abstract painting. Pencil gave way to acrylic, Indian ink to oil and finally stained glass on canvas. But her most revealing technique is stained glass on canvas.
''A self-taught Swiss painter and draughtswoman, I define myself as an explorer of possibilities and creator of atmospheres, sometimes conceptual, sometimes abstract, most often evocative. Driven by great curiosity and a quest for aesthetics, my creative process is driven by the discovery of new techniques, enabling me to evolve and offer a wide variety of paintings. My aim is to create canvases that express a message or allow the viewer to project emotions and evoke memories. Mainly inspired by nature, especially water, I conceive my works as windows to the exterior as well as to the interior. I look forward to taking you on my voyage of exploration.''
A Swiss citizen since 2008, she has lived in the canton of Vaud since 2002. In the heart of the great Scandinavian forests of Sweden, she has cultivated a gentle, sensitive and subtle contact with plants since her earliest childhood. Through plant printing, her preferred artistic practice, her art is the very expression of the unique bond she has developed with plants, on the edge of the visible and invisible worlds.
''I've always had pencils, felt-tip pens, scissors and paper in my hand. In the small villages of Venezuela, the country where I was born, the facades of the houses are full of details, colors, strange additions, sometimes nothing goes with nothing and it's beautiful! In 1990, I was delighted to discover the Vaud Alps, the landscape, the atmosphere and the people! During a visit to the Musée du Pays d'En Haut, needless to say, I fell in love with this place dedicated to decoupage. I adopt this technique, not just for the story it tells, nor for the beauty of the result, but rather because decoupage feels good!''
As a year-round open-water swimmer (at the Paquis baths in Geneva), I had the opportunity to observe the Leman swans on a regular basis. This almost daily practice of swimming has enabled me to get close to them and sometimes to anticipate their behavior. Never intrusive, I was able to produce a series of photos to present this emblematic animal, always full of poetry, playing with the very special light reflected by the lake.
Free entrance
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