"Mon exposition"

The Stämpfli Foundation is exhibiting two installations from the end of the 20th century by Peter Stämpfli, which, for the first time, are being shown in Catalonia. Under the title of Mon exposition, the exhibition exhibits twenty pieces, most of them large format, together with a new presentation of the selection of the collection.

"Mon exposition", by Peter Stämpfli is the first exhibition of the Stämpfli Foundation since the expansion of the facilities, in the spring of 2019. The exhibition is divided into two rooms (1 and 3), which offer the canvases of large size by Stämpfli and are additionally complemented by a new reading of the collection (at 2). Rooms A, B and C – located in the new building incorporated into the Foundation three years ago – show the works of Peter Stämpfli grouped in three stages of his artistic career.

Room 1: Five colors. Invited in 1998 to exhibit in the large entrance hall to the auditorium of the Palais des Congrès de Paris, Peter Stämpfli specially created five works of 3 x 3 m with acrylic paint. For the first time since that year, these works are now presented in Sitges in a new installation in which color and print explore new possibilities of their only subject: the tire. The works, which follow the same visual language, are expressed in five colors: red, pink, white, green and yellow.

Room 3: The Cordeliers stained glass windows. In 1988, the municipality of the city of Châteauroux, in France, invited Peter Stämpfli to a personal exhibition in the gothic abbey nave of the s. XIII of the Cistercian Abbey of the Cordeliers.There he made seven linear studies in Chinese ink and the seven gouaches cut out of paper and glued on canvas of 280 x 125 cm.
These works are now presented at the Foundation, accompanied by the studies that the artist carried out for their creation. In addition, the room also presents a large photograph, showing the exterior of Abadia dels Cordeliers with the side window openings, during the 1988 exhibition.

Room 2: A new selection from the Foundation's collection. Since the decade of the 60s of the s. XX to the beginning of the XXI, artists have not stopped expanding the limits of thematic exploration and the development of all kinds of techniques.
The 17 works on display want to challenge the viewer to discover the confrontational or complementary aspects between them. The artists that make up this selection are: Pierrette Bloch, Mark Brusse, Tom Carr, Philippe Cazal, Carlos Cruz-Díez, Marco Del Re, François Dufrêne, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Jean-Michel Meurice, Olivier Mosset, Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Antonio Seguí, Pierre Tilman, Gérard Titus-Carmel, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Vladimir Velickovic and Jacques Villeglé.