Amgest SA has decided to collaborate with the archive of the great Swiss photographer Kurt Ammann, who recently passed away, to exhibit around twenty shots. The exhibition will begin right on the opening night, to which over a hundred guests are invited.

With an eye on wealth management and therefore on the communicative potential of art, Amgest SA will keep the exhibition of the works available to enthusiasts throughout 2023 (visits by private invitation only).

The Kurt Ammann exhibition commissioned by Amgest

The exhibition dedicated by Kurt Ammann, in the will of the curator Angelica Moschin and of Amgest SA, wants above all to be an ode to Switzerland, which is both Ammann's and Amgest's homeland and cultural matrix.

The protagonists of the shots on display are his unmistakable alpine landscapes, the Swiss Boy Scouts, the shepherds supported by the Red Cross, the healthy smiles of the boys who grew up in a still uncontaminated nature.

An eyewitness of a society recovering after the horrors of the Second World War, Ammann was able to grasp, with the typical energy of the younger generations, the new-found joie de vivre of the people who, having passed through the pain of the recently concluded conflict finally opened up to a future full of hopes and expectations. The clear-cut and essential style, formal elegance and compositional rigor of his works combine to ascribe the photographer to the Swiss current of the best art photography, which has exerted a worldwide influence on a par with design and architecture.

The obsessive attention to perspective, the wise use of light, the practice in the darkroom, and then the talent and the surprising framing: Amman's art is meticulous but also the poetry and kindness with which he portrays situations and subjects which are granted to him with an act of trust.

Amgest SA

Founded in 2006, Amgest is an independent asset management company based in Lugano, Switzerland, offering wealth management and investment advisory services, targeting high-net-worth individuals, institutional clients and family offices. Amgest SA is authorized to provide asset management and financial advice by FINMA pursuant to the FinSA, LIsFI and AMLA regulations.

He is also a member of the Swiss Association of Asset Managers/ASG and affiliated to the supervisory body AOOS (Swiss Supervisory Company Anonymous).

Kurt Amman

Kurt Amman (Bern, 1925 – Milan, 2022) has lived and worked in Paris, Munich and Bern. As a UN envoy he spent two years in South Korea and Japan. As a photojournalist he has made reports throughout Europe, North and South America and Canada. In 1956 he held a personal exhibition in Toronto (Canada), at the Royal Ontario Museum. Several traveling exhibitions followed in the main cities of North America.

In 2017 the 29 Arts In Progress gallery in Milan dedicated a personal exhibition to him. In 2018 he participated in a collective exhibition in Legnano, at the Palazzo Leone da Perego. In 2022 his works are exhibited at Palazzo Pirelli (Milan) in an exhibition entitled "Youth - the age of innocence", sponsored by the Consulate General of Switzerland in Milan and subsequently in Venice at Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi. Among the international magazines in which he has published are Weltwoche, Du, Annabelle, Schoener Wohnen, Grazia, Time, Life.

His editorial publications include Maurice Sandoz's Un peu de Brasil and the Berlitz Guides on Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Hawaii and Sicily. The retrospective monograph of the author, Kurt Ammann – Photoreporter since 1948, is published by Chimera Editore.

The exhibition

Amgest SA, Palazzo Ransilia I (XNUMXth floor)
Viale Pretorio 9, Lugano, Switzerland
Opening: Thursday 12 January 2023 from 18.00 (by invitation only).
Contact Mr. Andrea Trapanese for an appointment: trapanese@amgest.ch.