The Alpina Gstaad’s art collection has been curated with a focus on artists who address themes of technology, identity, and the natural world. This year the collection is pleased to welcome three new works by Laura Owens, Henry Taylor, and Trisha Donnelly, each of them exploring concepts at the very core of their respective practices. 

Laura Owens’ Untitled (2020) invites viewers to interrogate the nature of painting, by combining a range of techniques - carefully blended oils mixed with wallpaper and delicate screenprints - to create a work whose layers appear to be in constant motion, bursting through planes of focus or fighting to extend beyond the confines of their canvas. 

In Henry Taylor’s Untitled (2021), the artist continues his interrogation of representation and tradition by exploring the narrative power of a moment, magnifying the intimacy of a single action - the pause before lighting a cigarette. Rejecting the dramatic tropes deployed by classical portraiture, Taylor instead balances energetic brushwork with quiet fields of colour that capture the ephemeral nature of the moment. 

And in Untitled (2019), Trisha Donnelly’s precisely hand-carved marble appears to have been eroded by nature over the course of millennia. Donnelly’s carving yields an object unconfined by the nuisance of time, appearing to be as much in the past as it is in the present. 

The three new works are an opportunity for guests, old and new, to find inspiration and awaken creativity surrounded by the luxurious interiors of The Alpina Gstaad and the breathtaking vistas of the Saanenland.