| | | | | | | | | Willy Spiller: Feldstrasse Kreis 4, Zurich, 1970, 42 x 60 cm, Edition 5 & 2 AP | | | | | | | | | | 28 March - 11 May 2019 | | | Opening: Thursday, 28 March, 6-9pm
Guest speaker: Stefan Zweifel / Both artists will be present.
The photo book ZÜRICH 1967-1976 by Willy Spiller (Edition Bildhalle) will be released at the opening. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fred Mayer: Pietro Zanoli, fishmonger at Bianchi, Zurich 1971, signed Baryta Print, 50 x 35 cm | Fred Mayer: Hugo Loetscher, author and journalist, Zurich, 1971, signed Baryta Print, 50 x 35 cm |
| | | | | | | The exhibition presents the city of Zurich and its people as they lived and worked during the tumultuous times between 1967 and 1976, when youthful rebellion and sexual revolution confronted bourgeois morality and order. The two photographers Willy Spiller and Fred Mayer will exhibit some of their best-known works at Bildhalle, images that are visually intense, absurd and a witty testimony to the zeitgeist of that time. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Willy Spiller: Lady Shiva on a cigarette break, Kontiki-Bar, Zurich, 1975, 42 x 60 cm, Edition 5 & 2 AP | | | | | | | 28 March - 11 May 2019 | | | | Willy Spiller (*1947, Zurich) has become well known as a photojournalist far beyond Switzerland. In his unmistakable artistic style and with his precise eye, he has photographed Swiss and international celebrities in historically eventful years, amongst them people like Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Nizon, Federico Fellini, Hildegard Schwaninger, Lady Shiva, Walter Pfeiffer and David Weiss. | | | | | | | | | Willy Spiller: Max Frisch behind the curtain of the Schauspielhaus Zurich
award ceremony of the Schiller Prize, January 12th, 1974, 60 x 42 cm, Edition 5 & 2 AP | | | | | | Willy Spiller is not only a fine art photographer but also specialises in cultural reporting and corporate communication. He is also the only Swiss contributor to the famous GettyImages, USA.
After receiving his master's degree from the Zurich University of Art and Design (ZHDK), Willy Spiller gained further experience in Milan in a wide variety of photographic disciplines. The majority of his subsequent work was strongly rooted in photojournalism. Travelling on his own or with various writers, Willy Spiller has visited all five continents on his many assignments. His images have appeared in numerous leading European newspapers and magazines. | | | | | | | | | | Willy Spiller: Zurich Riots, Quaibrücke, Zurich, 1968, 83 x 123 cm, Edition 5 & 2 AP | | | | | | Willy Spiller's signature style involves capturing images that re-tell everyday stories, utilising techniques characteristic of fine art and documentary photography.
Spiller's photographs have been on display in major exhibitions in Cairo, Milan, New York, Paris and Zurich. His work is included in important art collections, such as Kunsthaus Zürich, Swiss National Museum, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Getty Collection, Musée de l'Elysée, The Swiss Centre New York, as well as in many significant private collections. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fred Mayer: Jumble siblings Melvi, Zurich, 1971, signed Baryta Print, 50 x 35 cm | Fred Mayer: Aja Iskander Schmidlin, painter, Zurich, 1971, signed Baryta Print, 50 x 35 cm |
| | | | | | | 28 March - 11 May 2019 | | | | Fred Mayer shows vintage prints from his three-part series «Zürcher Panoptikum», originally published in the weekend edition of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1972, accompanied by a text by Hugo Loetscher. Whether publishers, artists, street sweepers or loiterers, they all appeared in front of Mayer's camera. Following the principle of US photographer Irving Penn, Fred Mayer did not portray his protagonists posing within their familiar milieu, but rather with their guard down against a neutral background in his studio. The resulting portraits of around 90 Zurich residents are intimate and timeless, and include celebrities such as Ueli Prager, Max Bill, Hugo Loetscher, Sigmund Widmer and the painter Varlin. | | | | | | | | | | Fred Mayer: Willy Guggenheim alias Varlin, painter, Zurich, 1971, signed Baryta Print, 50 x 35 cm | Fred Mayer: Salvatore Tessitore, Coal carrier, Zurich, 1971, signed Baryta Print, 50 x 35 cm |
| | | | | | Fred Mayer is a Swiss photographer, photojournalist, publicist and author. He was born in 1933 in Lucerne, Switzerland, where he attended school followed by a three year apprenticeship with the photographer Otto Pfeifer.
In 1950 he moved to Zurich where he worked as a photographer for more than six years for international press agencies like ATP, DPA, AFP and UPI, producing daily news and reportages. In 1956 he married the Keystone photographer Ilse Günther and began to work as an independent photographer for Swiss press publications such as Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Schweizer Illustrierte and Die Woche.
In 1965, he travelled for his first collaboration with Magnum Photos to Indonesia, where he shot a reportage about former President Sukarno for Paris Match and The Observer. Following this assignment, he worked regularly for Magnum for more than 40 years and continued his press work for some of the most important magazines.
In addition, he published with his wife more than 30 books on a variety of topics, such as Kleinstaat und Weltkirche: Vatikan, published in 1979, as well as books about the Russian Orthodox Church, Chakkar Polo, Japanese theatre and the Chinese Opera. In 2006, Fred Mayer received the Lifetime Award and Honorary Membership from the members of the Swiss Professional Photographers Association. | | | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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