Gianni Jetzer

Director, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

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Jiri Kovanda: Kissing Through Glass

Le Mouvement 2: Performing the City

12th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel/Bienne

29–31 August 2014

Czech, Prague-based artist, Jiří Kovanda active since the 70s, has earned an international reputation for his slight, poetic yet very potent gestures, actions and interventions. For Le Mouvement, he performed Kissing Through Glass, in which he invites passersby to exchange a kiss through a glass window. At once joining and dividing lips through glass, this work inevitably speaks to the boundaries between the public and the private, interior and exterior, and most importantly, between bodies themselves.

 

Co-curated by Chris Sharp

Camera & Editing Janosch Perler