Alois Lichtsteiner
Tosa Shoji
Like a mountaineer climbing a steep mountain, Alois Lichtsteiner is committed to printmaking. Resolutely determined to explore new paths, the artist uses contemporary materials and technologies, combining them with ancestral methods to open up hitherto unknown horizons.
Step by step, the artist treads a fine line between figuration and abstraction, graphic art and painting, to create impressive mountain landscapes printed on delicate Japanese paper. The exhibition Tosa Shoji focuses on Lichtsteiner's printmaking activities and presents works on paper created over the course of a decade for the first time in the historic rooms of Gruyères Castle.
Exhibition curator,
Filipe Dos Santos
Vernissage
Friday 1st March, at 6.30 pm
Alois Lichtsteiner
Born in Ohmstal (Canton Lucerne) in 1950, Alois Lichtsteiner initially obtained a teaching diploma before working in various crafts until 1973. After completing his training at the Fine Arts School in Zurich (1978), he exhibited his work regularly in Switzerland. Between 1994 and 1997, he taught at the Ecole cantonale d'Art du Valais (1994-1997), then until 2004 he chaired the Bachelor's and Master's juries there. Since 1990, the artist has been based in Murten, where he continues to pursue his pictorial research and exhibit his work in Switzerland and abroad.
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