For the first time, Kunsthaus Interlaken brings together in the same exhibition some artworks by painter Jürg Kreienbühl, his wife Suzanne Lopata and their son Stéphane Belzère.
Close - in his life as in his work - to social outcasts and to worlds condemned to destruction, Jürg Kreienbühl is today considered as an important figure in the Swiss art of the second half of the 20th century. Opting for objective realism counter to the Zeitgeist and avant-garde of his time, he documented the changes of the Trente Glorieuses and turned them into paintings of great strength that are still burning issues.
By displaying his work with that of Suzanne Lopata and Stéphane Belzère, this exhibition offers new perspectives of comparison and shows how both of them - wife and son - have detached themselves from the influence and the personality of Jürg Kreienbühl. And how they gradually developed their own pictorial language.
In addition to the exhibition at the Kunsthaus, Stéphane Belzère shows at Psychiatrie-Museum in Bern a series of oval family paintings and, especially, some portraits of Jürg Kreienbühl during his last years. Entitled "Szenographie einer Familie", this exhibition can be seen until November 3, 2018.
