<back tu archive		May 7 - July 11, 2003: Marc-Antoine Fehr Journal de Pressy. A Cycle of 366 Drawings
Marc-Antoine Fehr From Journal de Pressy Marc-Antoine Fehr From Journal de Pressy		In the year 2000, Marc-Antoine Fehr decided to execute a special project: every day he would make at least one drawing. This series, known as the Journal de Pressy, reflects Fehr's artistic production: portraits, interiors, landscapes. It also documents his work on the phantastic-surrealistic picture Le grand moulin. Marc-Antoine Fehr, born in Zurich 1953, has been living in Burgundy since thirty years in Pressy-sous-Dondin; in the country. The artist became co-owner of an estate with a castle. Over the years, step by step, he raised the dilapidated estate to a level of muted elegance. The visitor repeatedly is astonished at the skill Fehr and his wife have shown in furnishing the house, and at the manner in which they live in it: as if they were familiar with the life of landed gentry for generations. From the beginning, the rooms of the large house and the park inspired Fehr to paint. Not that this made him into a figurative painter. In 1983-86 Fehr painted La Tentation de Saint-Antoine, his enormous 3 x 9 meter canvas which won him a grant from the Swiss Federation. When, at the beginning of the eighties, the "Neue Wilden" experimented with new expressive figural compositions, it almost seemed as if Fehr belonged to the same movement. But at all times Fehr avoided participating in current artistic trends. Phantastic-surreal images stem from the beginning of his career. In Pressy he realized and continues to realize his numerous studies in his mysterious picture Le grand moulin. Yet the visible world keeps challenging the artist. He knew early on how to subtly transform this world into his paintings. This is also true of his diary-style drawings which form the subject of the exhibition. Opening: Tuesday, May 6, 6.00 pm Contact person: Paul Tanner (> e-mail)		For the opening, all drawings of the Journal de Pressy appear in a catalogue with 366 colour illustrations.
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