09.22.2022-02.12.2023
THE MOUNTAIN IN PERSPECTIVE
For a long time kept at a distance, the Alps have become a subject of study and their own pictorial subject ever since the first expeditions in the late 18th century.
This exhibition pays homage to the artists, their approaches varying depending on personality and period. They continuously reorient our perception. Surveyed from every angle, sometimes unchanging and almost eternal, other times fragile and threatened, the mountain is ascended from different perspectives. It reveals itself as dizzying or peaceful, at times surprising, always moving.
Ranging from iconic to surprising, the paintings, engravings, photographs, videos and objects exhibited investigate both the mountain’s wild and tamed character and, in the present context, where climate questions are at the centre of public debate, they reevaluate its indestructible nature.
Curated by Sylvie Aballéa and Mayte Garcia, assistant curators
Image
Pierre-Louis DE LA RIVE (Genève, 1753 – Presinge, 1817)
Le Mont Blanc vu de Sallanches au coucher du soleil, 1802
Huile sur toile, 129 x 169 cm, achat, 1969, inv. 1969-0022
©Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève, photographie : Y. Siza