Pictures at the exhibition
„Vera Isler & Philipp Gasser, HOMMAGE AUX ARTISTES“
at the gallery „see you next tuesday“, open 22.1.-7.3.2025,
photography: Leah Studinger

The exhibition «Hommage aux artistes» explores the interplay between tradition and innovation in image production. In Philipp Gasser’s works, a world emerges where staged images are no longer created with conventional cameras but are generated using the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence. At first glance, the displayed works resemble classic photographs, but closer inspection reveals a narrative style marked by an alienation reminiscent of the exaggeration seen in cinema. This lends the images a captivating yet sometimes unsettling quality.

Philipp Gasser’s images engage in a dialogue with the works of Basel artist and photographer Vera Isler (1931–2015). Isler left behind an extensive oeuvre of photographs featuring both renowned and lesser-known artists. Her most famous formal portraits have been widely exhibited and published (e.g., Face to Face I and II; Rollenwechsel). Isler also created countless relaxed, joyous and playful portraits that have never been published. In this exhibition, some of these unpublished images, originally created on color slide film, will be shown for the first time.