Exhibition. The village of Rossinière in the foothills of the Swiss Alps is reputed for its 17th- and 18th- century architecture (chalet of Swiss painter Balthus!). During this summer, the contemporary photo exhibition High Altitude will contrast this vernacular village identity with questioning, inquisitive and provocative images.

Mountains have been instrumental in defining identities, in Switzerland, as elsewhere in the world. Are mountains still a source of inspiration for today's creators?

10 exhibitions, including Matthieu Gafsou’s excellent Alps series, can be visited from July 17 to September 19 in various spaces of the village of Rossinière.

Germinal Roaux – Never Young Again
From April 1st to September 1st, 2011

Imaginaid, Rue des Grottes 28, 1201 Geneva (Switzerland)

www.imaginaid.org

Exhibition. Matthieu Gafsou’s solo show of his excellent Alps series in the coalmine gallery.

From april 13th to july 9th 2011

Vernissage on april 12th from 18:30

Exhibition. Seasonal rendez-vous presenting news works of the artists represented by Imaginaid gallery and mc2. After the first and very successful Un Jeudi sur Terre taking place in March 2010, this new exhibition will focus on contemporary landscapes.

Landscapes untouched, prohibited, undefined. Through this second edition Un Jeudi sur Terre, Marcel Maeder offers you a walk in a pristine turf of paper flowers, Alban Kakulya came back from Greenland with the confirmation that the world is really changing; Yann Mingard discovers unsuspected territories, Matthieu Gafsou and Cédric Widmer attached themselves to cultural spaces that are the prerogative of everyone, and no one in particular.

The landscape is a quest, a memory of the retina, the assurance of regeneration. These new landscapes are an opportunity to travel inside yourself.

 "Selected portraits" by Seb Agnetti (www.agnetti.li)

More information on www.bulbfactory.ch/comix/

Art books. In 2002, while Europe was opening to the East, Yann Mingard and Alban Kakulya went for one month and a half to take pictures of waning frontiers. By following a track of 1,600 kilometers (one started on the banks of the North Sea and the other on the Baltic), they have produced a major geopolitical report, alternating breathtaking landscapes and portraits of inhabitants that are close to be considered as anthropologic. Seven years later, the book East of a new Eden (320 p., 150 pictures, edited by Lars Müller Publishers) shows masterly this epic adventure.

Exhibition. The Wall of Shame came down twenty years ago. For this «anniversary», Imaginaid gallery prepared a first-rate exhibition in Geneva. On the Pont de la Machine – open again for this event – the aim is not so much to focus on the past but to witness that today, from Cyprus to Mexico via Ireland or Israel, walls still exist to bluntly exhibit the differences of opinions or religions... With pictures from Stephen Duroy, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Anthony Suau, Shai Kremer or Ron Havi, the trail of 24 photographs shows a reality and forces at the same time the visitor to bypass each of these pictures as if these were in themselves obstacles that rise between the two banks of the Rhône.

The exhibition will remain until 31st of january 2010. More information on www.imaginaid.org

The result can be seen until november 30th at the Musée de Pully (www.museedepully.ch)

More information can be found under www.davidgb.ch