"The tremendous power of the mountains, of nature par excellence, puts us in our place and shows us how insignificantly small we are."
The Swiss painter Conrad Jon Godly makes us marvel at his mountain paintings. Colour captured with the brush on canvas builds up, is brought powerfully to the foreground and brings all its different sensations before the viewer's eyes. Godly skilfully brings the theme of the mountain into the present day, uniting in it the entire evolution of the sublime, but also of the technique of painting. The oil paint is applied impasto: the mountain thus acquires a three-dimensionality that is reminiscent of sculpture. Applying the paint in an act of meditative speed diametrically opposes the process of creating massive mountain formations. There is no pausing during the painting process, no stepping back, no effect at a distance. It is a single dynamic act of painting that takes place without any preliminary drawing, without a grid.
Conrad Jon Godly lives and works in Maienfeld, Switzerland
born 1962 in Davos, Switzerland
1981-1986 FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, painting class of Franz Fedier (SfG Basel)
1986-1987 stay in the U.S.A., first photographic works
1988-2005 international active as photographer
2005 resumption of painting
2009-2010 lives and works in Vienna
2014 marriage with the Japanese artist Kazuyo Okushiba
His powerful mountain motifs are mainly represented in Swiss collections.
COLLECTIONS (selection)
Art Collection RINGIER
DAROS Collection
Swiss National Bank (SNB)
United Bank Switzerland (UBS)
Credit Suisse Bank (CS)
Julius Bär Bank (JB)
Bündner Cantonal Bank (GKB)
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Summer 23 / Landscape
Group Exhibition 12 Jul - 19 Aug 2023 bechter kastowsky gallery. Schaan -
Welcome 2023
group exhibition 21 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 bechter kastowsky gallery. Schaanwe start the year with a great selection of works by our artistsRead more -
Winter 2021
Liliane Tomasko. Martin Schnur. Ahmet Oran. Aurelia Gratzer. Conrad Jon Godly 27 Oct - 18 Dec 2021 bechter kastowsky gallery. Schaan -
Summer 21
Martin Schnur. Drago Persic. Ahmet Oran. Conrad Jon Godly. Jakob Gasteiger 7 Jul - 21 Aug 2021 bechter kastowsky gallery. Schaan -
Conrad Jon Godly
UP + DOWN 26 May - 3 Jul 2021 bechter kastowsky gallery. Schaan
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ART SALON ZÜRICH 2023
Liliane Tomasko. Conrad Jon Godly. Constantin Luser 28 Sep - 1 Oct 2023Zurich's new art fair Art Salon Zürich focuses primarily on the needs of art galleries, art dealers and their artists to address and serve a...Read more -
PARALLEL EDITIONS 2023
Martin Schnur. Arnulf Rainer. David Moises. Roy Lichtenstein. IRWIN. Conrad Jon Godly. Jakob Gasteiger 11 - 14 May 2023 -
VOLTA BASEL 2021
Hanna Roeckle, Liliane Tomasko, Conrad Jon Godly 20 - 26 Sep 2021