Gifted in the creation of monumental works which made his fame, namely the Colonnes de Plainpalais in Geneva, Maurice Ruche is also excellent in the realization of small works out of which he learned that the greatness of an artwork is not related to its size.

Born in Geneva in 1920, living in Lausanne, Maurice Ruche is an artist with multiple faces, sculptor, painter, drawer, graphic designer. Constantly in search of new experiments, inventor in his spirit, he likes the exactness and the clarity of things, recalling his formation of precision mechanic.

One of the pioneer artists in Switzerland who sculpted aluminium and plexiglas, he works also with steel, brass, iron, wood and concrete, privileging the geometric forms, the circle, the square, the cylinder.

In the works on paper, Maurice Ruche gives free way to his talent of graphic designer and drawer, leaving aside the rigor of geometry. With a fast stroke, keeping only the essential, he translates with a felicitous style the movement, the dance, the instantaneous.

A beautiful monograph accompanies the exhibition and permits to measure the richness and the wide-spreading of Maurice Ruche’s work.


Dr.Danielle Junod-Sugnaux

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	Maurice Ruche