Located on the 3rd and 4th floors of the Château in the former district prisons, disused since 1964, the Galerie du Château has been exhibiting artists from all horizons since 1977.
In this exhibition, which draws on imagery from different eras, artists Barbara Biaggio & Christian Chevalley play with the past to reconstruct an imaginary present. They invite us to reverie through reinterpreted worlds, where traces of history, archaeology, buried memories and recollections come to the fore.
Barbara Biaggio. Collages, prints on wallpaper
Christian Chevalley. Drawings, engravings, sculptures
Barbara Biaggio
At once baroque and contemporary, from here and elsewhere, Barbara Biaggio cultivates the beauty of materials. She manipulates and transforms them according to her inner journeys, delivering ethereal work in which her consciousness meets the gesture and the material. Born in Pully in 1968, her origins are plural. In the series she exhibits, the theme is often a pretext for evoking what once was. Her roots, which seem universal, are rooted in Italy. She trained in various artistic techniques in private workshops in Switzerland and abroad. Turbulent and authentic, it's fair to say that she loves telling herself stories and drawing us into them. If you follow her on these winding roads, you're sure to come across unusual substances, shimmering hues and evanescent shapes, always with a hint of mischief in the background. Whatever the epilogue to this whirlwind tale, Barbara takes great pleasure in superimposing the chapters, adding a timeless touch.
Christian Chevalley
He recognises and reveals beauty where we least expect it... As an explorer of the environment, he collects the wreckage of burnt, rusted or degraded objects discarded by the world, and then gives us a work of art in which each element has been carefully brought to life again. Born in 1958, Christian Chevalley attended the Ecole Cantonale des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne before turning to archaeology, where he trained in restoration and excavation techniques. His professional career has led him to teach visual arts and to mount various exhibitions at the Roman Museum in Aventicum. He has also worked on exhibitions at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. Christian is an unrepentant collector. His Yenish origins are expressed in the need to collect treasures that others abandon or that nature freely offers. Since childhood, he has lived and breathed the spirit of the Yenish community, a world of enigma bordering on transgression.
