Neuzugänge der Sammlung des Glarner Kunstvereins 2012

After last year’s exhibition another group of purchases of the Glarner Kunstverein as well as long-term loans are shown in the two exhibition spaces on the lower floor, which have found their way into the collection during the past years. The works show a variety of references to the human figure. While portrait painting in the 19th century served to represent a person or to document a social reality, in the 20th century and the present the genre changed its basic character in the direction of a search for identity, which has been increasingly characteristic of modern man. The range of ways in which the human body is shown extends from painting and photography to abstract-geometric and also motor-sawn sculpture. The human body is shown as a universal theme, which still has great immediacy today and reflects the sensitivity of this age like almost no other. On display are works by Judith Albert, Oskar Dalvit, Monika Dillier, Hanspeter Hofmann, Urs Lüthi, Severin Müller, Bessie Nager, Ugo Rondinone, Vanessa Safavi und Lill Tschudi.