The opening of the annual outdoors exhibition ART IN THE PARK in the lovely gardens of the BAUR AU LAC hotel has been a highlight of Zurich’s summer social calendar since its beginning. Hosted by Gigi Kracht, in collaboration with Galerie Gmurzynska, this year’s INSIDE OUT is a solo showcase of sculptures by artist Allen Jones, one of the pioneers of British Pop Art.
His sinuous, brightly colored reinventions of the human form will be on display until August 23, 2015 in the property’s half-acre park set on the shores of Lake Zurich. The contemporary pieces, including «Taxi» and «Sprawl», are mostly abstract and use interlocking sheets of steel painted in colors like cobalt and primrose.
Gigi Kracht, the wife of Baur au Lac’s owner, Andrea Kracht, created the show and collaborates with the international art gallery Galerie Gmurzynska to choose the artists. Here she is having a dialogue with Allen Jones during the seated lunch.
Allen Jones with me
«Taxi»
Jürg and Raquel Marquard with Krystyna Gmurzynska
«Sprawl»
Mathias Rastorfer, Gigi Kracht, Krystyna Gmurzynska, Allen Jones and Andrea Kracht
German De La Cruz, Patrick Liotard-Vogt, Sima Akhlaghi and her husband Peter Merian with me
«The Conjurer»
Mathias Rastorfer (Galerie Gmurzynska) with Gigi Kracht and me
If you are interested in last year’s Art in the Park, click here for the previous post.
LoL, Sandra
Photos: Courtesy of Art in the Park, © Dörte Welti, © Sandra Bauknecht
