Exhibition program

Lecture by Dr. Dieter Schwarz:
Topanga/Quadrum – Along Robert Grosvenor’s Work

Thursday, Nov 27, 2025, 7 pm

Already in his early appearances in New York in the 1960s, it was clear that Robert Grosvenor, with his expressive sculptural works that intervene in space and even barricade it, was pursuing a path that distinguished him from his contemporaries in many ways. Grosvenor was open to the pictorial appearance of his works, even to illusionistic effects. Instead of constructing static orders, he sought to make visible the forces to which he subjected his chosen materials. To illustrate this, the lecture places Grosvenor’s work in the context of American sculpture and traces his work from its beginnings to his later years, when he began to assemble sculptures from various heterogeneous materials, often found objects, into spatial images based on surprising observations.

Dr. Dieter Schwarz was born in Zurich in 1953. From 1990 to 2017, he was director of the Kunst Museum Winterthur. Since 2017, he has been working as a freelance author and curator in Zurich. He has organized numerous exhibitions and publications on art from the modern to the contemporary era.

The lecture will be held in German.

Admission is free. No registration required.
Location: Fridericianum