Art Show Opening POLITICAL POETICAL Nov 11 at 2pm in our Gallery Art & Business, Trittligasse 4, 8001 Zurich

I am pleased to invite you to our international Art Show Opening POLITICAL POETICAL Nov 11 at 2pm in our Gallery Art & Business, Trittligasse 4, 8001 Zurich.

Curated by Spanish curator and arts writer Paco Barragán and German curator and art advisor Petra Lossen, the exhibit brings together an imaginative mix of classic and contemporary artists around the topics of the ‘political’ and the ‘poetical’.

Trump vs. Picasso & Co.

 US President Trump polarizes. And the rest of the world is watching via social media. Artists around the globe are animated to take a critical and creative position. 

The personal is political....and the political is poetical we could add. To the famous 1960s slogan—about which by the way until today nobody claimed authorship for originating the phrase—we could confidently argue that the political is poetical.

Especially in the contingent times of today’s capitalism it becomes a fascinating topic to examine how the political can be poetical and how the poetical is extremely political.

We entered in the mean time ‘classic’ artists like Picasso and Dalí in a fresh dialogue with contemporary artists like Santiago Sierra, Erwin Olaf or Josie McCoy, just to mention a few. The exhibition represents an exercise in a-historical or trans-historical curating that helps us to articulate how the political-poetical dialectics has been and still is a mayor topic in contemporary art and society.