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

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): «...