Matias Spescha

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Matias Spescha (born July 17, 1925 in Trun, GR ; † June 28, 2008 in Zurich ) was a Swiss painter, sculptor and graphic artist.

Life

Matias Spescha completed an apprenticeship as a tailor at the Trun cloth factory from 1941 to 1944 and worked there until 1951. From 1951 he was a poster painter for the Corso cinema in Zurich. There, at the instigation of his sponsor Alois Carigiet, he began to paint post-cubist landscapes, still lifes and figure pictures and to deal with classical modernism. In 1954 Spescha went to Paris, where he was a student of Henri Bernard Goetz at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière for four months and studied until 1958. In 1958 he moved to Bages in the south of France. In the early 1960s Spescha worked intensively with abstract forms in the style of Informel and Abstract Expressionism . From 1970 Spescha worked on sculptures, realized several wall and room designs. From the mid-1970s onwards, numerous works were created in Graubünden in public spaces and also as art in architecture. A formal closeness to American Minimal Art shaped Spescha's works from the 1970s until his death in 2008.

Awards

  • 1957: Scholarship from the City of Zurich
  • 1986: Prize of the Foundation for Graphic Arts
  • 1993: Culture Prize of the Canton of Graubünden
  • 1999: Art Prize of the Canton of Zurich

Exhibitions

Iron sculpture in Trun
Matias Spescha (1925–2008) painter, sculptor and graphic artist. 1979, 3 large sculptures, untitled. University Hospital Basel. Location: 47 ° 33'41.5 "N 7 ° 34'56.4" E, 47.561536, 7.582342,
1979, untitled. University Hospital Basel

Sculptures in public space

  • 1972: Sheet iron sculpture, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur
  • 1979: 3 large sculptures, new construction of the Cantonal Hospital, Basel
  • 1981: Granite sculpture in two parts, Graubündner Kantonalbank, Chur
  • 1986: Stone sculpture in front of the town hall, Ilanz
  • 1992: Eisenplastik, LAC Lieu d'Art Contemporain , Sigean
  • 1993: Permanent installation: picture (acrylic on jute), marble sculpture, foyer of the Grand Council Chamber, Chur
  • 1996: Eisenplastik Spital Lindberg, Winterthur
  • 1999: Iron sculpture on the square of the Théâtre Scène Nationale de Narbonne , Narbonne
  • 2000: Iron sculpture Rondo-Platz, Pontresina
  • 2003: Iron sculpture in front of the parish hall, Trun GR
  • 2003: Iron sculpture in town square, Sérignan
  • 2008: Iron sculpture "Captured air cube", Sculpture Switzerland '08 Enetbürgen-Luzern
  • 2013: Walkable concrete sculpture OGNA in Trun GR



literature

  • Matias Spescha. Painting, sculpture, graphics, rooms 1959–1983. Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Text: Hans Hartmann. Schaffhausen, 1983.
  • Matias Spescha. A work consisting of 15 panels on the subject of space, perspective, optical illusion and picturesque space. Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, 1983. Texts: Beat Stutzer, Richard Häsli, Matias Spescha. Schaffhausen, 1983.
  • Matias Spescha. Couloir pains. Biennale de São Paulo, 1987. Texts: Beat Stutzer and Flurin Spescha. Office fédéral de la culture, Bern 1987.
  • Matias Spescha. Sculptures 1979–1989. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 1990. Texts by: Rudolf Koella, Edith Jud. Winterthur 1990.
  • Matias Spescha. Sigean, Lieu d'Art Contemporain, 1992. Texts: Edith Jud and Tadeus Pfeifer. M. Spescha, Sigean 1992.
  • Matias Spescha. The prints 1953–1992. Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur 1993. Text: Beat Stutzer
  • Monograph Matias Spescha. Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, 2000. With texts by Matthias Frehner, Flurin Spescha, Beat Stutzer, Beat Wismer. Benteli, Bern 2000.
  • Matias Spescha. Sigean, Lieu d'Art Contemporain, 2002. Texts: Benedikt Loderer and Matthias Frehner. Benteli, Bern 2002. (This publication documents the installation association of Spescha's latest works in 2001 in the Lieu d'art contemporain in Sigean in the south of France.)
  • Matias Spescha. The prints 1993-2004. Benteli, Wabern / Bern 2004 (The publication appeared on the occasion of the exhibition Matias Spescha. Per ils otgonta in the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, 2005).
  • Matias Spescha. Per ils otgonta. Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, 2005. Edited by Beat Stutzer; with contributions by Peter Killer et al.
  • Homage to Matias Spescha. Text: Piet Moget, Interview: Bob O'Neill. Bages 2009.
  • Explosions lyriques, Abstract Painting in Switzerland 1950–1965. Sion Art Museum, 2009–2010. Texts: Iris Bruderer-Oswald et al. Benteli, Bern 2009.
  • Beat Stutzer: The heroic years. Lenz Klotz and Matias Spescha. Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur 2011, ISBN 978-3905240603 .

Web links

Commons : Matias Spescha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Matias Spescha. In: Sikart
personal data
SURNAME Spescha, Matias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spescha, Mathieu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Trun GR
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2008
Place of death Zurich