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Address
MCBA - Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts
PLATEFORME 10 - Place de la Gare 16
1003 Lausanne
PLATEFORME 10 - Place de la Gare 16
1003 Lausanne
Schedules
From 06.09.2024 to 05.01.2025
Tuesday
10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 - 18:00
Thursday
10:00 - 20:00
Friday
10:00 - 18:00
Saturday
10:00 - 18:00
Sunday
10:00 - 18:00
Free
On 24 and 31 December: 10am to 5pm.
Closed on 25 December and 1 January.
Closed on 25 December and 1 January.
Access
CFF train station: 3 minutes on foot
Bus 1, 3, 21, 60: «Lausanne-Gare» stop
Bus 6: «Cécil» stop
Metro M2: «Lausanne-Gare» stop
+41 21 318 44 00
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Son of a stonemason of Italian descent who lived and worked at the Montoie Cemetery, André Tommasini (1931-2011) studied stone carving before taking a degree in the early 1950s at the Lausanne School of Fine Arts in the studio of Casimir Reymond.
Active mainly in what is called direct carving, a technique going back to classic statuary that allowed him to work closely with his chosen material, André Tommasini also produced numerous reliefs that are a part of their surrounding architecture as well as public artworks. He greatly admired Henry Moore’s sculpture as well, and his own work displays his examination of the tension between contradictory forms, organic and geometrical, full and empty, constricted and expansive.
Active mainly in what is called direct carving, a technique going back to classic statuary that allowed him to work closely with his chosen material, André Tommasini also produced numerous reliefs that are a part of their surrounding architecture as well as public artworks. He greatly admired Henry Moore’s sculpture as well, and his own work displays his examination of the tension between contradictory forms, organic and geometrical, full and empty, constricted and expansive.
