Glarner Privatsammler im Dialog 2010

For the exhibition in the two basement rooms Robert and Ruth Jenny have been invited to show a selection of their pictures in dialogue with pictures of the collection of Kunsthaus Glarus. The collection reveals a strong interest in expressive abstraction, enigmatic and mysterious contents as well as metaphysical transparency. The latter is also shown in the interest in painting and handcrafts from Asia, Latin America and Africa, which are also represented in the collection. Another group of works in the exhibition concerns some of the history of Gartenflügel, gallery and cultural forum in Ziegelbrücke, which is run by the Jennys. In this and other ways a number of works by artists from Glarus were taken into the collection. The Jennys present a collection characterised by very personal decisions without being narrowly systematic, for once not only in their own four walls but for a broader public in the context of a museum. In dialogue with the collection of the Glarner Kunstverein new neighbours and interconnections come about. Individual groups of works supplement each other or open up fresh ways of seeing both collections, which can also lead to interesting questions about the differences between public and private collection and the various kinds of logic involved in collecting in general.