Galerie Maria Wettergren is proud to present the works of one of the greatest post-war photographers. The exhibition Etienne Bertrand Weill – Métaforme (photographs 1959 – 1982) presents fourteen Métaformes, original silver prints by E.B. Weill (exhibit I) and projections of some of his restored audiovisual shows (exhibit II). In conjunction with Philippe Szpirglas (responsible for enhancing
Weill’s work) and the family of the artist, this exhibition allows the spectator to discover or see again the profoundly innovative and poetic dimension of the photographer’s work.

Avant-garde from the beginning it remains so today. At first sight, it might be surprising that a gallery, with a reputation for contemporary art and design from Scandinavia, proposes an exhibition of photographs linked to kinetic art; these, taken by Etienne Bertrand Weill, a French artist, in the second half of the twentieth century. But a closer approach reveals how former exhibitions of another « kinetic photographer », Rodolphe Proverbio, had already broadened the multi-faceted character of the gallery. Exploring the photographic work of both Proverbio and Weill reveals subtle correspondences with constituent characteristics of the gallery’s core tradition: abolition of the boundaries between different artistic forms, open to original processes and restless experimental research, a spirit of departing from conventions, a terse drawing, a métaforme.