n the exhibition entitled "Spaces", Zur Stockeregg Gallery features two outstanding Swiss photographers: Christian Vogt and Daniel Schwartz. The works of both artists are explored from an angle of spatiality - the term "space" being used in a broader sense, thus comprising both nature and interiors as well as adhering to spatial and temporal extension.
Christian Vogt and Daniel Schwartz - how different are both their pictorial languages and their choices of motives! Yet, in one aspect, the oeuvres of these two photographic fixed stars are congruent, after all: both result from the extensive examination of a particular field of photographic interest. Vogt and Schwartz take the time to find the perfect setting; neither would press the release button repeatedly on the same subject to select the best p...
Daniel Schwartz - Travelling through the Eye of History
Views from the Hinterland of War
The exhibition "Travelling through the Eye of History" at the Helmhaus Zürich is breathtakingly topical. For it takes us to Central Asia, to the "global heartland". This region is constantly in the news as the scene of both interminable warfare and latent conflict. Yet this has not made it any more familiar to us. In this exhibition, and in his two books Travelling through the Eye of History and Schnee in Samarkand. Ein Reisebericht aus dreitausend Jahren [Snow in Samarqand. A Travelogue of Three Thousand Years], internationally acclaimed Swiss photographer and author Daniel Schwartz sets out to understand this geographically heterogeneous and politically complex entity both from the inside and from the ...