Markus Döbeli s first solo presentation with Marc Jancou Contemporary on view in Rossinière
Installation view of Markus Döbeli: Paintings and Watercolours, Offsite: Marc Jancou Contemporary, Rossinière, Switzerland, Photo: Julien Gremaud.
ROSSINIÈRE
.-Marc Jancou Contemporary is presenting Markus Döbeli: Paintings and Watercolours, the Swiss painters first solo presentation with the gallery. The exhibition, which runs until the 29th of August, brings together a selection of the artists larger works on canvas and a number of smaller watercolour works on paper.
Spanning a period of about ten years the works on show reveal the artists single-minded approach to painting. Introspective and meditative, making their presence felt but at the same time appearing rather elusive, Döbelis paintings are characterised by relatively translucent areas of colour which blend into one another seamlessly, with no sharp or definite outlines giving the impression they have occurred
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A worker installs a sculpture of the Aztec deity Chalchiuhtlicue, dating from the 16th century, at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden on July 26, 2021. The National Museum of Ethnology exhibits Aztec masterpieces. Some of them can be seen for the first time outside Mexico. Sander Koning / ANP / AFP.
LEIDEN
.- Life-sized warriors carved from stone, mythical human-animal figures, intricate gold jewellery, and a full-size 3D print of the sun stone: all this and more will be on display in Museum Volkenkundes Aztecs, the first exhibition about the Aztecs ever to be staged in the Netherlands. This year it is 500th years since the Aztec Empire fell to Spanish colonialists. This in fact made the Dutch and the Aztecs fellow countrymen, for at that time both served the Spanish king. Aztecs is an exhibition full of unique collection highlights that have never previously left Mexico, which dissects the myths surrounding this empire that was onc