Two exhibitions in one –
Leonard Gianadda in his footsteps, and those of Tintin
While waiting for the exhibition dedicated to Francis Bacon, the Valais foundation is spending the winter in the photo archives of its creator who died a year ago.
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1983: Léonard Gianadda places the head of the tricorn bull discovered in 1883 in Martigny. The large bronzes of Octodure were kept in Sion, he fought for a long time for their return to the city.
PHILIPPE SCHMID, VALAIS-MARTIGNY MEDIA LIBRARY
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- The Gianadda Foundation exhibits the life and work of Leonard Gianadda.
- His reconstructed office illustrates his meticulous and detail-oriented personality.
- The exhibition combines personal memories and elements of cultural history.
- Another exhibition can be seen at the Foundation, it makes the link between certain photographs by Leonard Gianadda and Tintin.
Of all the photos – and there are some – hung at the Gianadda Foundation to identify the trajectory of its founder, the one that most closely resembles Léonard Gianaddaof his caliber, of his character, it is that of his office. It has even been reconstructed. With dictaphones. The paper diary. The portrait of his wife, Annette. Its timeless calculating machine. And the sudoku notebook.
2024: Leonard Gianadda's office remained as is. It has partly been reconstructed in the exhibition.
OLIVIER MAIRE
“I always knew him like that,” attests Francois Gianaddahis son, now president of the Foundation. “For the identical reconstruction, we even brought the little clock. Curiously, it stopped at around the same time as in the office photo,” adds Jean-Henry Papilloud. With Sophia Cantinotti who manages the collections, the vice-president of the foundation retraced in images the journey of the photographer, the builder, the director, the founder.
From left. to right. Anouck Darioli, vice-president of the Gianadda Foundation, François Gianadda, president. As well as Sophia Cantinotti (curator of collections) and Jean-Henry Papilloud (vice-president), also curators of current exhibitions.
CHANTAL DERVEY
“The collection is extraordinary,” the friend said. But also Jean-Henry Papilloud, the professional who directed the Valais-Martigny Media Library. “We launched this project, and as it left (editor’s note: December 3, 2023)we moved towards a tribute.” The story, the trajectory, the destiny unfold through touching moments. “I didn’t know this photo. He took me and my brother on vacation to Florence. But I also like this one, points out François Gianadda. The four of us are together in front of the foundation.”
The Martigny museum, the common thread
From its construction to the events that take place there, the Gianadda Foundation is the common thread of the journey and the testimonies requested from personalities from the world of the arts. Including Mahrukh Tarapor, collaborator of Metropolitan Museum de New York, who writes: “Most museum directors, when offered a new project, respond: “Why?” Leonardo’s peculiarity was that he thought for a moment before saying “Why not?”
2007: In his academic clothes, with the sword topped with the famous tricorn bull's head. It was designed by Hans Erni and his wife Annette. Léonard Gianadda was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts on June 27, 2001.
GEORGE-ANDRE CRETTON
In the words of Pascal Couchepinwe also learn the true genesis of the sculptures in the Martigny roundabouts, born from a challenge. And if the exhibition is based on images, it is words that they translate. A character. “He was someone who kept everything, from his recordings to museum entrance tickets,” emphasizes Sophia Cantinotti. These bits of history, a bit like memory aids, allowed him to cultivate his contacts.”
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Pleasure again for the other exhibition “Leonard Gianadda in the footsteps of Tintin”. It offers insight into the register of lovely coincidences between the plates of Hergé, of whom he was a big fan, and certain images of the Valais photojournalist. The exhibition, mounted with the Hergé Museumshows “this surprising meeting between two globe-trotters”. Or yet another facet of Leonard Gianadda.
Martigny, Gianadda Foundation. “Léonard Gianadda, tribute in photographs” and “Léonard Gianadda in the footsteps of Tintin”. Until February 2. Daily (10 a.m.-6 p.m.). www.gianadda.ch/
The poster for an exhibition that cultivates curiosity.
FONDATION GIANADDA
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Florence Millioud joined the cultural section in 2011 out of a passion for people of culture, after having covered local politics and economics since 1994. An art historian, she collaborates in the writing of exhibition catalogs and monographic works on artists.More info
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