Catchy songs, a poetic text and a very personal road trip: we recommend these cultural tips to you.
Literature tip
Poetic. A book as a deceleration program: At the very beginning there is a bizarre homeless man in an ermine coat. A fascinating character who is the introduction to a dropout book. In Patrick Holzapfel’s debut “Ermelin auf Bänken” a young man strolls through Vienna. For a year he spends almost his entire life sitting on chairs. Hardly any action, but still a poetic, existentialist and often hilarious novel. A book that can also be read politically – and slow down wonderfully in the process. (Markus Tischer)
Book reference
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Patrick Holzapfel: «Ermine on Benches». Matthes & Seitz, 2024
Exhibition tip
Objective. No abstract art: For ten years, Swiss artists who paint representational art have formed a collective. As a “salon of the present,” they exchange ideas and organize exhibitions. To mark the anniversary, over 40 artists are showing their paintings in the Zofingen Art House and in the oxyd art rooms in Winterthur: from branches to dream landscapes to piles of dirty laundry, the entire spectrum of representational painting is visible. (Ellinor Landmann)
Exhibition notice
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- The exhibition “Renate Bodmer & 10 Years of Salon der Gegenwart. WONDERFUL EVERYDAY LIFE” will run until October 20th in the oxyd art rooms in Winterthur.
- The exhibition “10 Years of Salon der Gegenwart” can be seen at the Kunsthaus Zofingen until November 10, 2024.
Album tip
Catchy. After the 25-year-old guitarist delivered one of the best rock albums of the year last year with his band Wednesday and was able to refine the latest, great Waxahatchee album this year, he is presenting only his fourth solo album. And now we are allowed to ask the following question: MJ Lenderman – is he the next Tom Petty or is he not? On his fourth album, the musician from North Carolina shines with witty lyrics and catchy songs that sometimes sound like country, sometimes like indie and sometimes, yes, actually seem very Petty-esque. (Luca Bruno)
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MJ Lenderman: «Manning Fireworks». Anti-Records, 2024.
Movie tip
Personal. 20 years after his car trip through the newly “liberated” Afghanistan with a Florentine war photographer and a driven Geneva journalist, the French-speaking Swiss Claude Baechtold has rediscovered the videotapes he recorded at the time – and made a captivatingly honest documentary out of them. “Riverboom” is a refound-footage buddy road movie with wit and retrospective insight. Today, after the Taliban have returned to the country supposedly liberated by the USA 22 years ago, this cinematic journey functions as a far-sighted and extremely personal trip into its tragic history. (Michael Sennhauser)
Filmhinweis
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The SRG co-produced this film.
“Riverboom” by Claude Baechtold has been in cinemas since September 12, 2024.
Concert tip
Surprising. “Festival of Open Genres” – the name says it all. For three days, you can experience a journey of discovery through contemporary electronic music on the barracks area in Basel – music that defies genres. For example, the opening concert “100 Cymbals” by Ryoji Ikeda: a surprisingly fine acoustic interplay in which 10 people hit 100 cymbals and merge into a musical unit. There is much more – from DJ sets to sound installations. Here, keep your ears open! (Florence Baeriswyl)
Concert notice
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The “Festival of Open Genres” (FOG) runs from 19 to 21 September in the Kasernenareal in Basel.
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SRF 2 Culture, Cultural News, 10.9.2024, 8:06 a.m. ; scch
