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Animated films are created from drawings by Werner Gadliger.

Animated Film

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The video combines drawings by Werner Gadliger with webcam footage of the deserted city of Venice during the coronavirus lockdown. Three hotspots form the backdrop to the spectacle: Rialto Bridge, St. Mark's Square and Riva Degli Schiavoni. Animation and editing: Ines Anselmi.
The video combines drawings by Werner Gadliger with webcam footage of the deserted city of Venice during the coronavirus lockdown. Three hotspots form the backdrop to the spectacle: Rialto Bridge, St. Mark's Square and Riva Degli Schiavoni. Animation and editing: Ines Anselmi.

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The originals of all the drawings by the artist Werner Gadliger shown in this video are in the possession of the Zentralbibliothek Zurich.
The originals of all the drawings by the artist Werner Gadliger shown in this video are in the possession of the Zentralbibliothek Zurich.

Exhibition reportages

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The renowned Auer Ory Photo Foundation in Hermance near Geneva is dedicating a solo exhibition to the photographer Werner Gadliger in autumn 2024, from September 5th to October 30th. The exhibition is accompanied by carnet n°39 - 64 pages, 61 bw and color photographs, text by Alexandre Fiette. The Auer Ory Foundation manages what is probably the largest private collection on the history of photography from 1839 to the present day. Built over the last forty years, their collection includes over 500 cameras, 21,000 books, 50,000 original photography prints as well as works of art, literature, postcards and posters that have a connection to photography.

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A selection of artists' portraits taken by photographer Werner Gadliger from 1975 to the present were on display at Art Dock Zurich from September 2021. The exhibition continued after an extension in 2022. A large part of the photographs can also be discovered in Gadliger's 160-page publication «Im Atelier und unterwegs – Künstlerporträts» (In the Studio and on the Road – Artist Portraits), 2013, Benteli Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7165-1779-6.

Sound picture show

As a tribute to the photographer's 75th birthday, the Zentralbibliothek Zürich is presenting an audio-visual show with artist portraits by Werner Gadliger and music by Alan Spiljak on June 24, 2025. It is an updated and expanded version of the video «Artists' Portraits».
As a tribute to the photographer's 75th birthday, the Zentralbibliothek Zürich is presenting an audio-visual show with artist portraits by Werner Gadliger and music by Alan Spiljak on June 24, 2025. It is an updated and expanded version of the video «Artists' Portraits».

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Publications

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The first monograph of Werner Gadliger has been published under the title «Nebenschauplätze» (Sideshows). It comprises 480 pages with over six hundred black and white and color illustrations that were created in Switzerland and around the world over the last five decades. Essays by three authors complement the images. The sequence of images, which is deliberately not designed thematically or chronologically, directs the focus to the unspectacular in Gadliger's documentary photography. Whether in Basel or Buenos Aires, Riehen or Rijeka, Zurich or Zadar, everywhere it is small scenes on the side of the road, oddities of everyday life, chance encounters along the way that Gadliger's attention is focused on. ISBN 978-3-03858-516-9, eBook ISBN 978-3-03858-517-6