Art Genève
January 30 - February 2
Booth D46
We are excited to present a solo exhibition of works by Swiss artist Yves Scherer for this year's edition of Art Genève. The exhibition will include a selection of new sculptures, paintings, and lenticular works.
INTRODUCTION
Yves Scherer's presentation at Art Genève 2025 is a meditation on memory, perception, and fleeting moments of human experience. Through sculptures, lenticular works, and paintings, Scherer explores the subtle interplay between nostalgia and transformation. His works reference the past—whether through materials like pink onyx, which evokes permanence, or through imagery that blurs personal recollection with collective cultural memory—while remaining firmly grounded in the present.
Flowers appear throughout the exhibition as a central motif, representing both beauty and ephemerality. In his paintings, they emerge from broad, abstracted landscapes, mirroring the hazy quality of memories that shift over time. The lenticular works extend this theme by merging Scherer’s own photographs with digitally generated figures, reinforcing the idea of perception as something fluid and ever-changing. His sculptures, like Goodnight Moon and Cutesy, further emphasize this balance, transforming everyday gestures and emotions into enduring forms.
At its core it is about how we recall, reinterpret, and reinvent the moments that shape us. Scherer invites viewers to move between reality and imagination, between presence and absence, reflecting on the way our understanding of the past evolves with time.
Yves Scherer
Imagine, 2024
Pink onyx, glazed ceramic
148 x 32 x 24 cm
58 1/4 x 12 5/8 x 9 1/2 in
AP from an edition of 1 + 1 AP
CHF 42,000
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Carved in pink onyx, Imagine (Girl with Flower) presents a young woman in an expressive pose, loosely inspired by Baroque sculptures of dancers. The simplification of the dress and the elongated composition imbue the figure with an existential quality, reminiscent of a contemporary female Giacometti. A closer look reveals that the flower she appears to hold is not grasped but seems to grow from her hand, subtly injecting warmth and poetry into the work. Interestingly, this delicate detail is also crafted from stone—fired and glazed ceramic produced in Scherer's own studio kiln.
Yves Scherer
Goodnight Moon, 2024
Pink Onyx
130 x 20 x 18 cm
51 1/8 x 7 7/8 x 7 1/8 in
AP from an edition of 1 + 1 AP
CHF 36,000
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A slender figure in pink onyx, Goodnight Moon exudes an ethereal presence, its composition balanced between weight and lightness. The name evokes the quietude of nighttime and shares its title with the beloved American children's book, which Scherer has based a series of paintings on and reads to his daughter. The subtle tension between the hardness of the stone and the soft contours of the figure lends a dreamlike quality, inviting contemplation on stillness and transience. Scherer reflects on Michelangelo's philosophy of sculpture, where the form already exists within the stone, waiting to be uncovered. This notion resonates deeply with Goodnight Moon, as if the figure was always there, merely revealed rather than created.
Yves Scherer
Cutesy, 2024
White onyx & glass
50 x 18 x 17.5 cm
19 3/4 x 7 1/8 x 6 7/8 in
#1 from an edition of 3 + 1 AP
CHF 18,000
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Cutesy is a white onyx sculpture depicting a simplified, folkloric figure holding a glass heart. The title plays on the contemporary hand gesture of forming a heart with thumb and index finger, yet the figure itself remains firmly rooted in contemporary form. The blend of the delicate glass heart with the hard yet soft appearance of white onyx creates an intriguing contrast. Its snowman-like shape may remind viewers of childhood memories—building snowmen and adding found objects to complete them, infusing the piece with a playful and nostalgic quality.
Yves Scherer
Imagine, 2024
Archival print, acrylic glass, lenticular lens and Dibond in polished aluminum frame with glass
163.5 x 123.5 cm
64 3/8 x 48 5/8 in
CHF 27,000
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Scherer’s lenticular works explore the intersection of popular culture and personal identity, where fantasy and reality seamlessly blend. His past work in this medium drew from found celebrity imagery, mirroring how young people once constructed their dream worlds from magazine clippings. In this latest series, Scherer takes a new approach: for the first time, he incorporates computer-generated imagery of a female figure resembling Kate Moss, interwoven with photographs from his personal travels. A striking floral image within the composition originates from the Engadin region, a place Scherer visited with his family as an escape from the hectic pace of New York life. Through his unique lenticular process—a technique of his own invention—he crafts an immersive 3D effect that brings depth and motion to his evolving narrative of cultural fascination.
Yves Scherer
Imagine, 2025
Oil on linen in oak frame with glass
77 x 94 cm (30 3/8 x 37 in)
Framed: 89 x 107.5 cm (35 x 42 in)
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Through his paintings, Scherer explores the power of fleeting moments and the emotional weight they carry. Broad, horizontal sweeps of muddled green, orange, and yellow form a textured landscape, punctuated by sparse yet intentional clusters of flowers. Each painting evokes the elusiveness of memory—its beauty, its distortion, and its tendency to fade over time. These works, though abstract, feel deeply personal, drawing from Scherer’s own recollections while offering space for viewers to project their own experiences. Framed in oak with protective glass, they hold a quiet presence, reinforcing Scherer’s contemplation of nostalgia and the passing of time.
Yves Scherer
Imagine, 2025
Oil on board, framed with glass
30.5 x 40.5 cm (12 x 16 in)
Framed: 51 x 40 cm (20 x 15.7 in)
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Through his paintings, Scherer explores the power of fleeting moments and the emotional weight they carry. Broad, horizontal sweeps of muddled green, orange, and yellow form a textured landscape, punctuated by sparse yet intentional clusters of flowers. Each painting evokes the elusiveness of memory—its beauty, its distortion, and its tendency to fade over time. While similar in motive to the larger paintings, these smaller works are painted on panel and framed in white with a yellow hue, giving them a more intimate, homespun quality. Their handmade aesthetic introduces connotations of personal artifacts or cherished keepsakes, reinforcing their warmth and accessibility while maintaining the same reflective engagement with nostalgia and time.
Yves Scherer
Imagine, 2025
Oil on board, framed with glass
30.5 x 40.5 cm (12 x 16 in)
Framed: 51 x 40 cm (20 x 15.7 in)
CHF 6,000
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Through his paintings, Scherer explores the power of fleeting moments and the emotional weight they carry. Broad, horizontal sweeps of muddled green, orange, and yellow form a textured landscape, punctuated by sparse yet intentional clusters of flowers. Each painting evokes the elusiveness of memory—its beauty, its distortion, and its tendency to fade over time. While similar in motive to the larger paintings, these smaller works are painted on panel and framed in white with a yellow hue, giving them a more intimate, homespun quality. Their handmade aesthetic introduces connotations of personal artifacts or cherished keepsakes, reinforcing their warmth and accessibility while maintaining the same reflective engagement with nostalgia and time.
Yves Scherer
Imagine (Kate Central Blue Flower), 2024
Archival print, acrylic glass, lenticular lens and Dibond in oak frame with glass
163.5 x 123.5 cm
64 3/8 x 48 5/8 in
CHF 27,000
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After a significant body of lenticular work that the artist developed over the last year in the tradition of appropriation art, by using found images and making them his own through the process of scanning or photography, the lenticular works presented here include for the first time computer-generated images of a female figure that resembles the British actress Kate Moss. These are combined with pictures that the artist took on his own travel, thereby mixing fantasy and his own reality into a sort of fan fiction that is characteristic of his work. In this case, the flower image is taken in the Engadin, where the artist traveled with his family as an escape from his hectic life in New York. The specific lenticular process the artist employs is one of his own inventions and makings. It combines optical technology with software manipulation of the images to create a 3D effect and depth that make this series a singular medium that Scherer added to the art historical canon.
Yves Scherer
Imagine, 2025
Oil on linen in oak frame with glass
77 x 94 cm (30 3/8 x 37 in)
Framed: 87 x 104 cm (34 x 41 in)
CHF 17,000
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Through his paintings, Scherer explores the power of fleeting moments and the emotional weight they carry. Broad, horizontal sweeps of muddled green, orange, and yellow form a textured landscape, punctuated by sparse yet intentional clusters of flowers. Each painting evokes the elusiveness of memory—its beauty, its distortion, and its tendency to fade over time. These works, though abstract, feel deeply personal, drawing from Scherer’s own recollections while offering space for viewers to project their own experiences. Framed in oak with protective glass, they hold a quiet presence, reinforcing Scherer’s contemplation of nostalgia and the passing of time.
Yves Scherer
Imagine, 2025
Oil on board, framed with glass
30.5 x 40.5 cm (12 x 16 in)
Framed: 51 x 40 cm (20 x 15.7 in)
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Through his paintings, Scherer explores the power of fleeting moments and the emotional weight they carry. Broad, horizontal sweeps of muddled green, orange, and yellow form a textured landscape, punctuated by sparse yet intentional clusters of flowers. Each painting evokes the elusiveness of memory—its beauty, its distortion, and its tendency to fade over time. While similar in motive to the larger paintings, these smaller works are painted on panel and framed in white with a yellow hue, giving them a more intimate, homespun quality. Their handmade aesthetic introduces connotations of personal artifacts or cherished keepsakes, reinforcing their warmth and accessibility while maintaining the same reflective engagement with nostalgia and time.
Yves Scherer
b. 1987, Solothurn, CH
Yves Scherer is a Swiss artist based in New York City. Scherer’s practice has long been centered around combining personal narratives with fan fiction to explore the relationship between the private and the public. Working with various media - from sculpture, photography, and painting to installations and collages containing everything from paparazzi images to tatami mats, Scherer creates immersive environments that offer the viewer an often romantic lens or perspective on the self, relationships and the everyday, presenting an iconography of symbols that complement and repel each other at the same time. Through his painting, Scherer explores the power of minute parts of human experience and the profound impact these tiny moments can have on our lives. Large horizontal swaths of muddled green, orange, and yellow, are sparsely separated by lone sets of flowers, each work representative of the elusiveness of recollection.
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