UPDATES & PUBLICATIONS
25.4.2022
Marlowes
marlowes.de
"Auf vielen Reisen durch seine Wahlheimat ist Patrick Lambertz immer wieder Häusern begegnet, die sich dem typischen Klischee des Schweizer Chalets entziehen. Es sind in die Jahre gekommene Häuser, die von der seit Jahrzehnten grassierenden Bau- und Renovierungswut gerade noch verschont geblieben sind. Indem er sie vor winterlichem Hintergrund fotografiert, abstrahiert er die Häuser, hebt ihren individuellen Charakter hervor und bewahrt die erinnerungswürdigen Chalets vor dem Vergessen."
12.3.2022
Success Stories
PhotoSchweiz
by Michel Pernet
Interview with Michel Pernet founder of PhotoSchweiz.
Read the full interview here:
1.3.2022
PROFIFOTO
www.profifoto.de
Interview about education in photography.
19.3.2022
11am - 6pm
Exhibition opening and Book Launch
"Chalets of Switzerland"
Hartmann Projects, Stuttgart
For detailed information see exhibitions.
18.3.2022
11am - 6pm
Exhibition opening
Works from WIRED, The Architecture of Hunting, Landscapes
Prolab, Stuttgart
For detailed information see exhibitions.
March 2022
Book Launch "Chalets of Switzerland"
The chalet, a luxurious and romantic remote mountain hut that exists in “splendid isolation” in a sunny winter landscape — this is one of the most popular cliché images of Switzerland. However, the actual meaning of the term “chalet”, derived from the Latin word cala: “protected place”, is simply that of an Alpine dairy hut oder shelter. On his many trips through his adopted home, Patrick Lambertz has run into many houses that do not conform to the chliché of the Swiss chalet. They are old houses that barely managed to escape the building and renovation boom that has plagued the country for decades. By photographing them in front of a wintery backdrop he abstracts these houses from their context, heightens their individual character, and provides them with an aura of poetry and irony. Following the tradition of Karl Blossfeldt and Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lambertz creates a typological canon of forgotten, yet memorable Swiss houses. Nature itself provides the photo studio: cloudy skies and dense fog provide soft light with little contrast. Snow covered mountains and hills deliver the neutral backdrop. SYB, the legendary photobook designer from The Hague and master of the “Dutch altar fold”, developed a congenial minimalist concept for the book of Patrick Lambertz’s photographs from the Swiss mountains. The houses are made to steadily appear and disappear from the wintery paper white.
The bookstore is open for pre-orders: Bookstore
17.2.2022
1pm
Inauguration
Landscape SPEER, St. Gallen
Special work for Hotel Sorell Speer, Rapperswil
Hotel Speer, Rapperswil
15.2.2022
March Anzeiger
marchanzeiger.ch
by Anouk Arbenz
"Durch das leicht durchscheinende Papier tauchen die Häuser beim Durchblättern allmählich aus weissen 'Nebelseiten' auf und wieder ab. Es passt, denn der Schnee und das Weiss sind auch wichtige Elemente in Lambertz' Bildern"
20.12.2020
Petra Gut Contemporary represents
Patrick Lambertz in Zurich, Switzerland
Petra Gut Contemporary was founded in 2015 in the heart of Zurich and currently represents a mix of international emerging and established artists with a focus on photography, conceptual and minimal art in various media.
The gallery is participating in the important international photography events.
The latest add on to the portfolio of internationally acclaimed photographers is the body of work of swiss based photography artist Patrick Lambertz.
Follow Petra Gut Contemporary's Profile on Instagram for latest news: Petra Gut Contemporary
20.5.2020
ATLAS OF PLACES
by Thomas Paturet
Atlas of Places is a public educational collection of Academia, Architecture, Cartography, Cinema, Essays, Painting, Photography and Research. Its objective is to question the meaning of places. It is curated according to continuously evolving philosophical, social and cultural beliefs. This is merely an occasional collection. Some works date from 1230, some from the recent past, some from the present. They have this characteristic in common that they are outlooks, in the truest sense of the word. In them will be found little more than the intention of clarifying a few ideas that might really be called political if that fine word, so attractive and exciting to the mind, did not arouse today so many great scruples and great repugnance.
Atlas of Places is an excellent collection curated by Thomas Paturet and definitely worth a visit.
20.10.2019
fotoMagazin EDITION - N° 9
The german magazine for lovers of outstanding photography art
Founded in 1949 the german fotoMagazin is one of the classiest german publications about photography.
The annual "fotoMagazin Edition" special edition features photographers and discoveries hand-picked by chief editor Manfred Zollner, who is constantly travelling the world and visits virtually every photofestival to share the gems he discovers in a beautifully printed photography book.
Follow Manfred Zollners journeys on Instagram: Visualboomerang
Get your copy of fotoMagazin Edition N° 9 covering my series Châlets at your local kiosk or order through the fotoMagazin Website:
15.6.2019 - 15.8.2019
Hall of Frame Studiogallery
Marktstrasse 18, 8853 Lachen
Switzerland
Exhibition of selected works
Photo: ©Marie-Eve Hofmann-Marsy
15.3.2019
Baublatt.ch
by Nadine Siegle
"Die Schweiz in Bildern? Das muss nicht Fotos von Uhren, Schoggi und dem Matterhorn bedeuten. Fotograf Patrick Lambertz zeigt in seiner Serie «Châlets of Switzerland» ein Stück Baukultur, das jeder Schweizer kennt, das aber etwas in Vergessenheit geraten ist."
15.-24.3.2019
Exhibition of selected works "Breitenhof"
Welcome by Charly Schrader, Parish Council - Culture and Education
Introduction by Franz-Xaver Risi, Member of the Cantonal Council of Schwyz and Cultural Commissioner of the Kanton of Schwyz
23.2.2019
Swissinfo.ch
article in 10 languages
by Ester Unterfinger
Comments:
"These chalets do point to a simpler and humbler way of living, set apart from the modern urban lifestyle that most Swiss people live. It makes me think of the quest for more authentic living in natural settings, as described by J.J. Rousseau. Please Swiss Info, give us more pictures of chalets throughout Switzerland. They are a gentle reminder to me to live authentically."
Reader "Maplesuisse"
14.01.2019
PhotoSchweiz 2019 - Exhibition
Zürich, Halle 622
13.01.2019
Kwerfeldein - Photoblog report
Comments:
"A very nice photography series. Thank you for the inspiration."
Reader Bernhard
"Very fine series!"
Reader Oliver
NZZ - Bellevue | Solitäre im Schnee
Roberto Zimmermann