Jacques Guidon

Jacques Guidon (born July 22, 1931 in Zernez ) is a Swiss painter and writer .

Live and act

Jacques Guidon was born in Zernez in the Lower Engadine and grew up there with Vallader as his mother tongue . From 1947 he trained as a teacher in Chur and Zurich. From 1957 he worked as a secondary teacher in Zuoz . Between 1954 and 1973 he made extensive trips (Europe, USA, Mexico and Canada.)

Jacques Guidon designed with mixed media , art in construction , woodcuts , drawings , sculptures , collages , screen printing , he also created illustrations , posters and caricatures . As a writer, he creates plays and poetry , but also short stories and aphorisms .

Awards (selection)

• 2006: Bündner Kulturpreis
• 1999: Premi Cultural Paradies , Ftan
• 1991: Prize from the Foundation for Occidental Reflection , Zurich

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• 2011: amo adüna - still , Museum Chasa Jaura , Valchava
• 2009: Museum Sursilvan , Trun
• 2006: Town house, Opfikon
• 2005: Chasa Jaura Museum, Valchava

Group exhibitions

• 1996/1997: transitions. Art from Graubünden 1936–1996. Bündner Kunstmuseum , Chur. (With catalog.)
• 1985: The Upper Engadine in painting. 18th century to the present. June to October 1985. Segantini Museum , St. Moritz. (With catalog.)

Publications (selection)

• With Renate Weber (ed.): Da las Funtanas . From the sources. Rhaeto-Romanic anthology (multilingual, multilingual) with German translation. EYE, Landeck 2006 (= At the heart of Europe , 8th)

Literature (selection)

• Iso Camartin : Jacques Guidon - the artist of Zernez. A commemorative publication for the 80th birthday of Jacques Guidon , with speeches by Romedi Arquint and Andreas Klaeui. On the occasion of the exhibition, Chasa Jaura Valchava Museum , July 2nd to October 13th. Chasa Jaura Museum , Valchava 2011.
• Jon Nuotclà: Jacques Guidon . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 769 f.
• Peter André Bloch , Iso Camartin and Beat Stutzer: Jacques Guidon . Verlag Bündner Monatsblatt, Chur 2005, ISBN 3-905342-29-4 .

Movie

• Arnold Rauch: Persona non grata? Jacques Guidon . Movie. Televisiun Rumantscha , 2011.

Web links

• Works by and about Jacques Guidon in the catalog of the German National Library
• Guidon, Jacques. In: Sikart
• Jacques Guidon in art bulletin
• Jacques Guidon in the Riss Samedan art space
• Eighty years of Jacques Guidon. In the Engadiner Post , July 21, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book and author description ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved from Casanova Druck und Verlag AG on June 8, 2013. 
2. ↑ Online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha , accessed June 8, 2013.  
3. ↑ Description  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Center for Contemporary Art Nairs , accessed on June 8, 2013.