Petra Gut Contemporary

11/06/2026

Still Life. What Objects Say – Part 3

In Still Life photography, no person is present – and yet everything speaks. The object is the subject. The arrangement is the language.

Absence speaks: Coigny's still lifes often suggest a person who has just left – a bed, a pillow, a garment. What is not in the frame is as important as what is.

Bound together: In Remer's work, objects are never neutral. An aubergine tied to a wooden box by rope – the tension between them is the meaning.
Form as feeling. Time made visible. Order in chaos. What remains after.
Still Life. Objects speak. We listen. At Petra Gut Contemporary, Still Life photography is not displayed – it is experienced. The gallery wall becomes a space for reflection, where ordinary objects hold extraordinary silence.
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07/06/2026

Still Life. Two Visions. One Tradition – Part 2

works in film, .remer paints with light. Two artists, two methods, one enduring genre.

Remer sources each prop for months - every element carries metaphysical weight. Working in total darkness, he illuminates each object with a single flashlight, building depth and colour layer by layer during a 15-second exposure.

Where Coigny's darkroom prints carry the grain of silver and time, Remer's layered exposures produce images that feel closer to painting than photography. Nothing is accidental: every shadow deliberate, every object chosen. This is photography as a slow, meditative act.

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05/06/2026

🇮🇹 La Dolce Vita, frame by frame.⁠

chased the magic 20-minute light for his Italian series - first light over Portofino's harbour, mist cloaking the Val d'Orcia, a setting sun on the stone streets of San Quirico d'Orcia. Into each scene came the 1955 Ferrari 121LM, the car Piero Taruffi drove from Rome to Brescia at an average of 189 kph in the Mille Miglia - a record that still stands.

With supermodels Brooks Nadar, Frida Aasen and Kelsey Merritt, a 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza and a black stallion shipped in from Rome, these aren't pretty postcards - they're stories of place, journey and the timeless charm of communities that still live La Dolce Vita.⁠

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📸 David Yarrow The Good Life, Archival Pigment Print, 2026, Ed. 12 + 3 APs + 1 EP⁠
📸 David Yarrow Italia, Archival Pigment Print, 2026, Ed. 12 + 3 APs + 1 EP⁠
📸 David Yarrow Mille Miglia, Archival Pigment Print, 2026, Ed. 12 + 3 APs + 1 EP⁠
📸 David Yarrow Ferrari 1955, Archival Pigment Print, 2026, Ed. 12 + 3 APs + 1 EP⁠
📸 David Yarrow Cypress Point, Archival Pigment Print, 2026, Ed. 12 + 3 APs + 1 EP⁠
📸 David Yarrow Cafe Espresso, Archival Pigment Print, 2026, Ed. 12 + 3 APs + 1 EP⁠
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21/05/2026

21/05/2026

Still life traces its origins to 17th-century Dutch painting - and remains one of the most contemplative and collected disciplines in fine art photography today. ✨

Read the full article - link in bio. 🔗
Two artists who master this silence: - with his poetic precision. .remer - with his ability to make transience visible. In still life photography, nothing is accidental. Every object chosen. Every shadow deliberate.

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📷 The Origins of Faith by Daniel Remer, 2022, Photography
📷 Les poires de la faim by Christian Coigny, 1989, Photography
📷 Cynara by Daniel Remer, 2023, Photography
📷 Vase Noir by Christian Coigny, 1988, Photography
📷 Le Bol et Ombre by Christian Coigny, 1993, Photography
📷 Feels Like Home by Daniel Remer, 2023, Photography
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09/05/2026

📸 DANIEL REMER

A short film, a longer practice. This portrait moves through the everyday geography of Remer's world. A walk along a city park, a bridge, a stretch of water. Then the work itself, hands measuring, fitting, mounting, the slow choreography of installation that almost no one sees.

Cameras keep appearing. Held by him, made by him, watched by him. There is a quiet recursion in his practice, the photographer turning his attention toward the apparatus of looking itself, asking what it means to be the one observing and the one observed. The surveillance camera, that most anonymous of objects, becomes in his hands a sculptural subject with weight, history, and presence.

Behind every finished piece is a long arc of decisions. This film offers a glimpse of that arc and of the artist at its centre.

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📷 Artist portrait:
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08/05/2026

📸 MARC LAGRANGE (1957–2015)

Light was always his first collaborator. Lagrange built his images the way a painter builds a canvas, layer by layer, with shadow as much a subject as anything illuminated. The bodies, the fabrics, the surfaces all submit to a single chiaroscuro logic, and what remains is closer to oil painting than to fashion photography, even when the trappings of fashion are clearly in the frame.

There is a Flemish lineage in his work that he never disowned. Vermeer's quiet light, Caravaggio's drama, the still lifes of the Low Countries and their luxurious patience. Lagrange folded these histories into a contemporary language of beauty and desire, and he did it without ever raising his voice. The seduction in his pictures is real, but so is the intelligence behind it.

A decade after his passing, his images continue to find new audiences. The works shown here are a selection from his oeuvre, available at Petra Gut Contemporary.

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📷 A selection of works by Marc Lagrange
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07/05/2026

📸 PIETRO TERZINI NOW ON VIEW IN ZURICH!

Pietro Terzini's work has arrived in the gallery, and the walls feel a little louder for it. The Italian artist has built his practice on the language of pop, fashion, and irony, turning bold typography and sharp colour into images that read like manifestos. Each piece lands with the immediacy of a slogan and the precision of a punchline.

Terzini grew up between Milan and the wider currents of contemporary fashion, and his visual vocabulary carries that lineage. Branding, magazine culture, advertising, the seductions and absurdities of the image economy. He borrows their codes and bends them, producing work that is at once a celebration and a quiet critique. The humour is real. So is the craft beneath it.

"In Her Mess" captures that signature in full. A unique piece in acrylic on cardboard, on view in Zürich now. We invite you to come spend time with it in person.

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📷 In Her Mess Jumbo (Hermès), Pietro Terzini, 2025, Acrylic on cardboard, 142 x 170 cm, Unique Piece
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03/05/2026

📸 MARC LAGRANGE (1957–2015)

Few photographers have captured intimacy with such painterly restraint. The Belgian artist built his images like a director builds a scene, with light, shadow, and silence doing most of the work. Each frame holds tension between what is shown and what is withheld, between the polished surface and the quiet pulse beneath it.

Trained as an engineer before turning to photography in the 1980s, Lagrange brought a builder's discipline to a sensualist's eye. Born in Kinshasa and raised in Belgium, he developed a visual language that drew from classical painting, cinema, and his own deep instinct for atmosphere. The results feel timeless and unmistakably his.

A decade after his passing, his images continue to find new audiences. The works shown here are a selection from his oeuvre, available at Petra Gut Contemporary.

Discover more at www.petragut.com or visit us in the gallery.

📍 Zürich: Tue, Sat | 11am, 6pm
📍 St. Moritz: Reopening August 2026

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you. 🖤

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📷 A selection of works by Marc Lagrange
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