Painting - 6 contemporary positions: Xerxes Ach, Michael Biberstein, Silvia Gertsch, Hanspeter Hofmann, Jahanguir, Alois Lichtsteiner The only thing in common is simply the media: Painting. Maybe the origin: They are all Swiss, or part of a young or mid-career Swiss art scene although born in Germany (Xerxes Ach) or living and working in Portugal like Michael Biberstein (since 1978). At this point any similarity ends in this stimulating group show. The results of the different painter's investigations could hardly be more different: Alois Lichtsteiners pasty mountain paintings meet Xerxes Achs sometimes stirring, sometimes contemplative color spaces, Hanspeter Hofmann's cheeky and provocative paintings gleam into the space, a new figurative work by Silvia Gertsch, painted behind glass, stands in dialog with Jahanguirs spacious, ornamental canvases and Michael Bibersteins sensitive, Asian inspired landscapes. So, all these different statements are delicately tied by relations and formal or spiritual analogies. One can discover surprising moments, which is the big goal and challenge of such an accrochage. The show will remain on view through Saturday, January 29, 2005 at the Jamileh Weber Gallery, Waldmannstrasse 6, CH-8001 Zurich. Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 11am to 6pm, Saturday 10am to 4pm and by appointment. The gallery will be closed during the fair (Art Basel Miami Beach - see note below), November 29 - December 8, 2004 and for the Christmas holiday break, December 24, 2004 - January 3, 2005. Note: At this years Art Basel Miami Beach art fair, the Jamileh Weber Gallery will present an one-man show of 8 large scale paintings and a wooden sculpture by Georg Baselitz and a group of works by Robert Rauschenberg inaugurating the new book "Robert Rauschenberg: Art and Life" a revised and updated edition by Mary Lynn Kotz. Please visit us December 2-5 in our booth G4 at Miami Beach Convention Center. More information at www.artbasel.com For further information or photographs please contact the gallery, phone: +41-1-252 10 66, fax: +41-1-252 11 32 email: info@jamilehweber.com, www.jamilehweber.com