Selected Exhibitions, editorials, and broadcasts

 

Swiss Art Space - Contemporary art gallery in Lausanne, Switzerland. Since opening its doors in 2006, it has been home to innovative, solo and pioneering large group exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. The gallery covers a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practice, from minimalist works, paintings, drawings and sculpture to large-scale installations, digital art and video work. http://www.swissartspace.com/

 

Murs Porteurs - Murs Porteurs selects confirmed and recognized professional artists according to an artistic career developed over the years. Simon Gregory is an English artist, living for many years in the Lavaux region, from which he draws inspiration for his paintings. His acrylic paintings in a style close to that of David Hockney are contemplative works, they represent landscapes and characters staged in moments of calm or reflection, enjoying life and the present moment. https://www.mursporteurs.ch/artistes

 

Maison Lavaux – this permanent exhibition celebrates 5 Swiss artists and presents the region as a cultural and constructed landscape, a place of life and a source of inspiration for artists of yesterday and today. "The Dream" is currently on display alongside works by artists Caroline Bachmann https://carolinebachmann.com/ and Stefan Banz https://stefanbanz.com/, curator, artist and co-founder of the Kunsthalle Luzern. The Dream is a featured work in part of the story-telling of the Lavaux region and its connection to famous artists who painted its beautiful landscape. These include names such as Oskar Kokoschka, Gustave Courbet, Ferdinand Hodler, William Turner, Maurice Utrillo and others.

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Maison Lavaux Exhibition Guide: A Note on the Painting “The Dream” Dominique Hoeltschi former Associate Curator / Exhibition Manager Fondation de l'Hermitage. https://fondation-hermitage.ch/   ‘Here we see the Moratel beach at Cully, with the terraced vineyard in the background. In this idyllic landscape, the artist captures moments of leisure and relaxation to combat “the tyranny of the urgent”. The intense luminosity of the lake painted in white, along with the variations of green dominate all of his work. The lack of communication between the figures, caught up in their thoughts, creates a collective solitude and evokes the strangeness of the paintings of Edward Hopper, David Hockney or even Alex Kats.' Audio Guide Link - https://izi.travel/fr/b04b-maison-lavaux/en#7d2a-simon-gregory-the-dream-2015/en

Audio is also in French and German

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Author and Journalist Christian Dick 

Certaines toiles, de personnages au bord du lac Léman, reproduisent un mouvement, une position, une attitude, que l'on découvrirait aussi ailleurs, sur une autre plage, qu'importée ? La situation n'est pas figée. 

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Que découvre-t-on ? Des gens debout en couchés, invariablement sur la plage ou l'herbe, se promenant, bronzant, lisant, s'exposant sur fond de lac de Dézaley ou sous les arbres. La couleur verte domine, elle se repose. On reconnait aussi des vues, toujours de Cully. Il y reproduit des espaces de vie Le village l'inspire.

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Some paintings, of characters on the shores of Lake Geneva, reproduce a movement, a position, an attitude, which one would also find elsewhere, on another beach, what does it matter? The situation is not fixed.

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What do we discover? People standing, lying down, invariably on the beach or in the grass, walking, sunbathing, reading, all against the backdrop of Dézaley, the lake or under the trees. The green color dominates, it rests. We also recognize views, always from Cully. He reproduces living spaces there. The village inspires him.

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Coming soon thoughts from: 

Radio Swiss Interview and Dominique Hoeltschi

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Visit Simon @

Galerie Confluence – No. 1 Rue Davel, Cully, Vaud, Switzerland