The Basel-based artists Philipp Gasser and Bruno Tremblay are on a six month residency (3 months Johannesburg and 3 months Cape Town) as part of an exchange
programme by Pro Helvetia and IAAB (International Exchange and Studio programme Basel, Switzerland).

'Improvising on Truth', was first used as title for the exhibition at
Drill Hall in Johannesburg (September 2006) where the artists showed a
multimedia collaborative piece (a video installation with an
original soundtrack).

For the Cape Town exhibition, this title becomes a theme for their individual works which somehow opens a dialogue between them:

Gasser will show a new animation using Table Mountain as the protagonist as well as a digital print consisting of an assemblage of drawings and newspaper clippings collected during the past months in South Africa.

Tremblay will show pencil drawings in which he has implemented the computer as a tool in the creative process, utilising found footage, photographs (for example a portrait of Helen Martin). The results are ethereal, delicate and poetic pictures.

Phillip Gasser. Improvising on Truth (2006). Assemblage of drawings and newspaper clippings.

Bruno Trembly. Improvising on Truth, HIV-Cell (2006). Pencil on paper. 70 x 100 cm.

Phillip Gasser. Improvising on Truth, The Mother City (2006). Video animation.

Phillipp Gasser and Bruno Tremblay, Improvising on Truth (2006). Installation overview.