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Full Description
Ricola is a Swiss global brand, famous for its herbal candies, based in the town of Laufen, near Basel. Emil Richterich, the company's founder, began collecting works by local artists in the 1940s. Since 1975, the shareholders of the still family-owned business have been expanding the collection systematically with a focus on Swiss art. Collecting and presenting contemporary art is an aspect of Ricola's vibrant corporate culture and an expression of the owning family's integral cultural thinking.
Open to the public, and exhibited in buildings designed that celebrated Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have designed for Ricola by since 1983, the collection spans more than half a century and the represents the latest trends in contemporary art.
This book offers a lively insight into the collection and its presence in Ricola's corporate life. Richly illustrated, it provides survey of its holdings and structure, and explores its history. Concise comments on a large selection of individual works round off this volume.
Contents
17 Foreword
37 On the History of the Ricola Collection
Introduction: The Presence of Art
I 1975: The Ricola Collection's Beginnings
II Cultural Patronage as a Program
III Iconoclasm: The Interplay of Abstraction and Figuration
IV Architecture and Art
V Painting
VI Art History as a Personal Echo Chamber
175 Selected Works
345 End Notes
349 Artists in the Ricola Collection
351 Ricola
353 Art Ads
357 Acknowledgements
