Edition Patrick Frey

30/09/2025

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«Pretenzione Intenzione - Objects of Beauty and Bewilderment from the Archive of Harald Szeemann»
By Michele Robecchi, Bohdan Stehlik, und Una Szeemann with Elsa Himmer

Pretenzione Intenzione: Objects of Beauty and Bewilderment from the Archive of Harald Szeemann draws on a selection of objects in the estate of art historian and exhibition maker Harald Szeemann (1933–2005). These objects were part of what Szeemann called his Museum of Obsessions, a mind mirror that manifested itself through Szeemann’s exhibitions as well as in the workspace and archive known as the Fabbrica Rosa in Ticino. There he gathered the numerous and diverse objects, including papers, sketches, photographs, books, exhibition catalogues, letters, works of art and ephemera. As ‚Pretenzione Intenzione‘ – the phrase from one of Szeemann’s handwritten notes that gives the project its title - suggests, a desire lies dormant in these objects. It makes itself felt intuitively while intimating a purpose that attains only passing concretion in the telling of stories. Starting from this mysterious casualness, the authors have embarked on an archaeological journey. While Hayat Erdogan, Simone Lappert, Raimundas Malasauskas, Michele Robecchi, Una Szeemann and Michael Taussig unearth, explore, describe and reimagine the object, Bohdan Stehlik captures their auratic presence through photography. Texts and photographs bear witness to the inspiring illegibility and secrecy of these objects, which meander somewhere between preciousness and ephemera, encouraging readers to let their own thoughts drift.

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30/09/2025

Come celebrate the release of «David Weiss and the Dream of Casa Aprile. Carona 1968-1978», this Friday, October 3, 2025, from 6 PM : Sonneggstrasse 82, 8006 Zürich.

This book brings to life the artistic and literary community that flourished in Carona, Ticino, from 1968 to 1978. Centered on Swiss artist David Weiss (1946–2012) and his circle of friends, it explores their works, processes, and the communal spirit that fueled artistic experimentation.
In the 1920s–30s, Carona attracted figures like Maria Braun, Hermann Hesse, Karl Hofer, Kurt Kläber, Niklaus Stoecklin, Lisa Tetzner, and Lisa Wenger. From 1968 to 1978, Casa Aprile became a gathering place for a new generation of artists and writers. This publication examines the utopian dreams, artistic vitality, and spirit of the era through the work of David Weiss, Esther Altorfer, Anton Bruhin, Maria Gregor, Penelope Margaret Mackworth-Praed, Matthyas Jenny, Urs Lüthi, Meret Oppenheim, Iwan Schumacher, Peter Schweri, and W***y Spiller.
Through essays by peers, curators, and critics— drawing from archival materials and oral histories—the book illuminates the artistic community’s legacy, historical context, origins, and evolution while presenting new scholarly findings. The Dream of Casa Aprile reconstructs this collaborative network in a visually rich, playful way, capturing the period’s essence.

With texts by Bice Curiger, Stephan Kunz, Virginia Marano, Andreas Schwab, and Stefan Zweifel, and a preface by Tobia Bezzola. Co-published with MASI Lugano in conjunction with the exhibition David Weiss. The Dream of Casa Aprile: Carona 1968–1978 (Sept 28, 2025–Feb 1, 2026). This publication is available in an Italian/German and an Italian/English edition.




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24/09/2025

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«ALL EYES ON ME»
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«All Eyes On Me» is a long-term project, born of the passion of Paris-based photographer Maï Lucas. Shot between 1990 and 2010, her photographs capture the hip-hop and street culture of New York’s African-American and Hispanic communities, from Jones Beach to the Bronx, via Harlem and East New York. These were the years in which New York’s African-Americans and Caribbean Latinos were able to deploy a singular creative power, forging an identity of their own, free from dominant codes and norms. This expression, deeply rooted in the margins, carried a new aesthetic and energy, still untouched by commercial logic. Long before it was taken up and re-configured by the fashion and branding industries — spaces in which this culture has now been diluted, if not deliberately projected — it affirmed a fiercely independent symbolic sovereignty. By approaching her subjects with respect, empathy, and love, Maï Lucas creates photographs of palpable authenticity, imbued with grace and deep humanity. She reveals the beauty of a youth whose creativity is expressed as much in everyday clothing and family life as in ecstatic dance and celebration. Lucas’s protagonists shine with pride in her portraits.

Born in Paris in 1968 to a Vietnamese mother and a French father, began photographing in her teens when her father gave her a camera. Since then, photography has become her preferred artistic medium. Swept up as a young girl in the exhilarating whirlwind of Paris’s emerging hip-hop scene, she documented the birth of this movement and her circle through the lens of a Nikon FM2. Several of the young hip-hop artists she immortalized at the time went on to become major figures in the French music and film scenes, whose aesthetics and lifestyle are now omnipresent.

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23/09/2025

Wir freuen uns, euch auf die Buchvernissage «A Naked Chair» von Dieter Hall bei an diesem Donnerstag, 25. September ab 17 Uhr aufmerksam zu machen.

Wir freuen uns auf euch!

Dieter Hall porträtiert den auf sich zurückgeworfenen Menschen, Ecce Homo. Ohne soziale Attribute, oft n***t, gleichsam in splendid isolation sucht er im Körperbild des anderen – meist Männer – das Gemeinsame des blossen Daseins: A Naked Chair, so der Titel der Publikation. Mit demselben Blick schaut er auf Dinge, Gegenstände, Gärten oder Landschaften. Seine Stillleben erinnernd an Bonnard und Matisse – ein Blick auf ein Glas, eine Blume, einen StuhI –, sind immer arrangiert. Immer wieder Stühle, leer und stellvertretend, sie wirken oft wie ein stilles Echo der Isolation und der Vergänglichkeit, verstärkt durch den dunklen Schatten der Aids-Epidemie, der sich in Halls New Yorker Zeit über sein Leben und Werk legte. Nicht im klassischen Sinne referenziell, reagiert Hall doch auf die Werke anderer Kunstschaffenden, darunter die für ihren psychologischen Realismus geschätzte Malerin Alice Neel oder Fotografen wie David Armstrong und Peter Hujar. Mit Letzterem war er befreundet, verkehrte in derselben Szene – bis zu dessen frühem Tod an Aids. Fotografie nimmt in Halls Werk eine zentrale Rolle ein – jedoch niemals als Selbstzweck. Sie hilft ihm vielmehr bei der Bildkomposition. So wählt er Details aus – einen Fuss, eine Hand –, die er ins Malerische übersetzt, wobei eine völlige Neuerfindung der dargestellten Person stattfindet. Von Isolation wie von einem tiefen Bedürfnis nach Verbindung erzählend, zeichnen sich die Werke besonders durch eines aus: radikale Intimität.

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13/09/2025

Come by today at 4 PM for the signing of «ALL EYES ON ME» at !

13/09/2025

Come by today at 4 PM for the signing of «ALL EYES ON ME» at !!

17/07/2025

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„All Eyes On Me“ is a long-term labor of love by Paris-based photographer . Shot between 1990 and 2010, her pictures capture hip-hop and street culture of Afro-American and Hispanic New York from Coney Island and Jones Beach to Harlem and East New York. Those were the years in which young people of color turned against the pre-existing codes and invented new styles in order to express their identities and their pride artistically. It’s as if they were out to supplant the established hip-hop phenomenon, which had become way too much about wealth and luxury, with a counter-culture of their own. Approaching her subjects with respect, empathy and love, Maï Lucas produces photographs of candid authenticity, grace and deep humanity. She brings out the beauty of a youth scene whose creativity finds expression in its everyday attire and family life as well as in its ecstatic dancing and partying. Lucas’s protagonists shine in her portrayals.

Born in Paris in 1968 to a Vietnamese mother and a French father, Maï Lucas began taking pictures as a teenager when her father gave her a camera. Photography has been her medium of artistic expression ever since. As a young girl caught up in the exciting and yet tender whirlwind of the nascent hip hop scene in Paris, she documented her girlhood through the lens of a Nikon FM2. A number of the young hip hop artists she portrayed at the time went on to become leading figures in the French music and movie scene, and whose aesthetic and lifestyle have become all the rage today.

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20/06/2025

17/06/2025

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„Pretenzione Intenzione: Objects of Beauty and Bewilderment from the Archive of Harald Szeemann“

By Michele Robecchi, , and Bohdan Stehlik
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22/04/2025

«Human Insights» von Michael Tummings

🍷 Buchvernissage: 30. April 2025, 18Uhr in der Edition Patrick Frey, Schlossgasse 5, 8003 Zürich.

Geheimnisse im Innern – Michael Tummings künstlerische Arbeiten enthüllen das Wunderland der Anatomie und machen seine Geheimnisse sichtbar. Diese Visualisierung der Mysterien des Körpers und seine Erforschung im Zusammenhang mit chirurgischen Eingriffen eröffnet völlig neue Aspekte unserer physischen Existenz und der modernen Medizin. Die Ästhetik der Kunstfotografie bringt uns in engen Kontakt mit unseren «Reparatur bedürftigen» Organen und lässt uns die Schönheit unseres Körpers jenseits von analytischer, rationaler und «sezierender» Annäherung erahnen. «Medicus curat – natura sanat»: Der Arzt kuriert – die Natur heilt. Diese Blicke über die Schultern der Chirurg:innen beweisen nicht nur deren Können und den technologischen Fortschritt, sondern führen uns auch vor Augen, wie wichtig die Verbundenheit mit unserem Körper im Kampf gegen Krankheiten oder auch bei Präventivmassnahmen ist. In einer Zeit künstlicher Gelenke, Organteile und Implantate müssen wir diesen Wundern unserer Biologie und Natur unsere ganze Aufmerksamkeit schenken.
– Jörg Christian Tonn

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16/04/2025

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Human Insights“ by Michael Tummings

Secrets inside—the artwork of Michael Tummings discloses the wonderland of anatomy and brings secrets in sight. The visualisation of the body’s mysterium and its exploration in the framework of surgical procedures provides new perspectives onto our physical existence and modern medicine. The beauty of art photography opens our mind for an intimate contact with our organs “under repair” and allows a glimpse into the beauty of our physical nature beyond any analytical, rationale and dissecting approach. Medicus curat—natura sanat: the physician cures but the nature heals. These views over the surgeon’s shoulder may not only display the spectrum of surgical skill and technological progress but also remind us that being connected to our physis is an important element for fighting and even prevent- ing diseases. In an era of increasing availability of artificial joints, body implants and even partial artificial organs we have to cherish the wonder of our biology and nature.

– Jörg Christian Tonn

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With texts by: Mazda Farshad, Michael Hagner and Jörg Christian Tonn

10/04/2025

N° 269 Beatrice Minger: „Hier sass er.“

Press fotos show people pointing at fields, cars or bullet holes. Captions: A man pointing at a window where a pensioner fired shots or a river where he saved a women. 124-photo collection creates a portrait of Switzerland through disasters, incidents, finds, and investigations.


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