The Galleria SACCHETTI is delighted to be the first to show works by the Berlin-based artist Axel Anklam in Switzerland. Anklam’s sculptures and reliefs create an exciting interplay of dynamics and calm, lightness and force, openness and closeness. His oeuvre impressively combines musical principles and the personal experience of being in nature. Both opaque and transparent materials are used: epoxy resin, carbon, fibreglass or stainless steel, from which the artist repeatedly creates net-like structures. 

The Galleria SACCHETTI is delighted to be the first to show works by the Berlin artist Thomas Kaemmerer in Switzerland. Kaemmerer’s works irritate the viewer’s perception, since at first glance they appear to be photographs. On closer inspection, however, they reveal themselves to be paintings and the artist demonstrates virtuosity in the use of brush and palette. With a pronounced attention to detail, Kaemmerer brings architectural subjects – industrial plants, house facades and streets of European cities – technical devices or carefully composed still lifes to the canvas. 

We are pleased to present new works by Michele Lamassa in our Pop Up Summer Gallery in Locarno, Via Serafino Balestra 1a. 

Michele Lamassa dedicates himself to a technique that is atypical within contemporary art: the fresco painting. The themes and motifs chosen by Lamassa show him to be a persistent observer of our time and recent history. His frescoes have a temporary character; using the strappo method – a method of restoration to remove wall paintings and prevent them from decay – the artist transfers his large-format frescoes to jute, whereby they develop their unique effect outside the original architectural context. 

!!! IN OUR POP UP GALLERY IN LOCARNO !!!
APÉRO: 14 August, from 5pm to 7.30pm, with the presence of the artist
DURATION: from 14 August until 10 October