Pierrette Bloch at Museo Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona

Pierrette Bloch. Il gesto di scrivere

September 12, 2026 - January 31, 2027

Museo Villa dei Cedri
Bellinzona, Switzerland

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The Swiss artist Pierrette Bloch (Paris, 1928-2017) was one of the leading exponents of abstract art in the post-Second World War years. In the course of her long career, she developed an original and self-contained language, embodying simple materials and shapes, expressing rhythm and the tension between full and empty spaces. Her intensely personal style began to emerge in the nineteen-seventies: irregular dots and lines, ink and brush, the space of a sheet of paper and the time of a symbol join forces to become the essence of a primordial form of expression. Bloch went on to experiment with a wide range of formats, media and materials – India ink accompanied by crayon, wax pastel and white ink while threads of hemp or sisal and horsehair impart a third dimension.

The exhibition invites the public to take a deep dive into Pierrette Bloch’s creative and poetic work between the 1970s and the artist’s death, between repetition and invention, but always embodying the act of writing.

Exhibition conceived in collaboration with the MAMC+ – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne Métropole (F).