About Margo Weber
Margo Weber-Junod
Swiss artist
1908-1997
"Margo works with a synthetic material: polyester. What she creates with it has the beauty of the primitive female image and at the same time it has the brutality and new forcefulness of modern sensibility which is also expressed in the scale of her colors of violet, green, blue and shocking pink. She lays bare the inside of bodies and creates an elementary world, powerful, flaming and wild. We get a strong desire to touch those strange objects which seem to us so familiar and at the same time so forbidding. We want to feel their tactile reality. In touching them we feel suddendly that they respond, that they move." (André Parinaud, Galerie des Arts, Paris)
Studied at the art academies in
Basle, Salzburg, Paris and New York.
Further studies as a disciple of Giacomo Manzu
and Emilio Greco
Studio in Rom till 1985, then back to Switzerland.
Sculptures in several mueums and in private collections.
Administration of Margo's artistic estate
Chris Junod
Exhibitions:
Non exhaustive chronological list of exhibitions
(P) = one woman show
1965
1 collective & 3 personal shows in Grosseto (Italy), Cologne & Rome
1969
Basel: «ART'69» Art Fair
Geneva: Galleries Aurore & Zodiaque (P)
Genoa (P), Rome (P)
1970
Biel (Switzerland): «5. Schweizer Plastik-Ausstellung»
5 collective shows in Basle, Epalinges (Switzerland) & Geneva
Fribourg: Galerie Art Factory (P)
Paris: Galerie Katia Granoff (P)
Paris: 2 Salons & 1 collective show
1971
Basle: «ART‘71»
Cologne: «Kunstmarkt»
Nemi (Italy): «Premio Nemi» (first price)
Paris: 3 Salons & 2 collective shows
Rome: Galleria La Margherita (P)
Venice: «Biennale» at the Film Festival
1972
Freiburg i.Brsg (Germany): Galerie Regio (P)
Paris: 2 Salons
Rome: 1 collective & 1 personal shows
Stuttgart: Galerie Witthoeft (P)
1973
Basle: «ART‘73»
Geneva: Guest of honor at the «27nd. GSAMBA (today VISARTE) Art Fair»
Nottingham, Paris & Toulon: 5 Salons
7 collective shows in Lausanne, Rome & Terramo (Italy)
1974
Allones (France), Monte Compatri (Italy), Toulon (France): 3 Salons
Paris: 3 Salons & 1 collective show
Rome: Galleria Ciak
Zurich: Galerie Kleiner Pelikan (P)
1975
Frascati (Italy) & Paris: 7 Salons
Lindau (Germany): «International Plastik-Symposium»
1976
Amiens (France) & Paris: 2 Salons
Rome: Galleria Ciak
1977
Basle: «ART'77» Art Fair
Naples: Museo Pignatelli
Paris & Rome: 3 Salons
1978
Paris: Salon «Dialogue» (UNESCO)
1979
Paris: «Salon de la Jeune Sculpture»
Rome: «Arte d’Amore» (Galleria S)
1979, 82
Paris: «Salon Grands et Jeunes d’ Aujourd’hui»
1983
Venice: «Stradart» (Biennale at the Film Festival)
1991
Zurich: Galerie Kröner (P)
2000
Bülach (Switzerland): «Skulptur Heute 2000»
2001
Löhningen (Switzerland): Trotte-Jubiläumsausstellung
Bülach (Switzerland): «Skulptur Heute 2001»
2002
Zurich: Collective show at the Technopark
2003
Zug (Switzerland): «KunstAusleih» collective show at the Altstadthalle
Zurich: Gruppenausstellung bei Alcan Switzerland
Zurich: Temporary exhibition of big scuptures at the Technopark (P)
2004
Zug (Switzerland): «KunstAusleih» collective show at the Altstadthalle
Gondelsheim (Germany): collective with César Manrique at the Kunstverein Schloss Gondelsheim
2005
Zurich: «Skulpturen 2005» in the park of Hotel Zürichberg
Zug (Switzerland): «KunstAusleih» collective show at the Altstadthalle
2006
Bad Rappenau (Germany) Part II of collective with César Manrique at the Michael Steiner und Kunstverein Wasserschloss Gondelsheim e.V. Galery
Zug (Switzerland): «KunstAusleih» 2 collective shows Spring and Christmas at the Altstadthalle
Lenzburg (Switzerland): «KunstAusleih» collective show at the Müllerhaus
2007
Zug (Switzerland): «KunstAusleih» collective show at the Altstadthalle
Zurich: «KunstAusleih 5 Year Jubilee» at the Technopark
Herrliberg-Feldmeilen: «KunstAusleih in der Kulturschiene» collective show
Zurich: «ArtPool» at the James Action Hall 7, collective show
2008
Wädenswil (Switzerland): «Kunst anders erleben» at the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, collective show
Zurich: «ArtRent 08» at the James Action Hall 7, collective show
Zug (Switzerland): «KunstAusleih 2008», collective show at the Altstadthalle
Zurich: «10th. Art International», guest of the ArtRent Gallery
2009
Zurich: «Art Show 09», collective show at Pulse 5
Herrliberg-Feldmeilen: «KunstAusleih in der Kulturschiene», collective show
Zurich: «11th. Art International», special guest at the Congress Hall
Zurich: «gedichte in form und wasser, 2-artists exhibition togehter with Stefan Fischer at Atelier 497
2010
Zug (Switzerland): «KunstAusleih 2010», collective show at the Altstadthalle
Zollikon (Switzerland): «6 Künstler des KunstAusleihs», collective show at the Villa Meier-Severini
2011
Frauenfeld (Switzerland): «KunstAusleih in der Städtischen Galeire zur Baliere», collective show
2012
Zürich (Switzerland): «plastiken mit falten», Ateier 497, collective together with Stefan Fisher
Zollikon (Switzerland): «Künstler des KunstAusleihs», collective show at the Villa Meier-Severini
