The awarding of the Willy Reber Art Prize to Annelies Štrba at the beginning of October 2020 was the occasion for the Galleria SACCHETTI to realize an exhibition, which gives an insight into her extensive and diverse oeuvre by means of selected works from the years 1974 to 2020. On display are the large-format black-and-white photo canvases from the early days, color photographs on photographic paper behind glass, two video works, including the key work Shades of Time 2.0, as well as the intense color pigment prints on canvas from the Nyima, Madonna and Momoka series. The latter unfold a painterly effect thanks to their digital processing.

The internationally well-known photographer and video artist Annelies Štrba, born in Zug in 1947, was honored on 2nd October 2020 in the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur for her outstanding oeuvre with the renowned art prize of the Willy Weber Foundation. Previous award winners include Rolf Iseli (2016), Pipilotti Rist (2014) and Franz Gertsch (2011).

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