Gardens have been places of enchantment since antiquity. 'Enchanted Gardens' deals with an emotional content by means of altering forms of expression: From three-dimensionality to photography, from the chronological continuum to the frozen moment, from real colorfulness to monochromatic abstraction. It is often a brief moment in which the glistening sun reveals something of the ideas on which those gardens are based and can become evident in the eye of the viewer. The photographs are the result of such enchanted moments over the course of an entire decade.

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Museum Franz Gertsch
Projektraum im Park
Technikumstrasse 2
3400 Burgdorf

13/12/2009 - 28/02/2010

Leica Gallery Switzerland
Hauptstrasse 104
2560 Nidau-Biel
Switzerland

15/03/2010 - 31/05/2010

A catalogue of the exhibition 'Enchanted Gardens' has been published by the Museum Franz Gertsch in collaboration with Wyss publishers. It contains 24 photographs as well as introductive texts by Konrad Tobler and Wolfgang Straub. Wolfgang Straub - Enchanted Gardens, hardcover with book jacket, 80 pages, CHF 58.-, ISBN 978-3-033-02263-8 (Museum Franz Gertsch) and ISBN 978-3-7285-2010-4 (Wyss Verlag) browse the book