Opening “What Remains”. The World of Cesare Lucchini

The Ticinese painter Cesare Lucchini (*1941) has made an internationally acknowledged contribution to abstract-expressionist art since the 1960s. The compositions he invents depend on enigmatic signs and characters, phantomlike manifestations, and color as sensitive agents for touching the emotions. At a practical level, Lucchini views painting as an experimental test arrangement. Between the layers of paint he concretizes his confrontation with Self and his personal investigation of reality. This artist’s oeuvre presents a world packed with pressing issues and is frangibly poetic. The exhibition discusses Lucchini’s work in the context of existential art and, with this in mind, integrates sculptures by artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Robert Müller, and Hans Josephsohn.