Geneva, 7 November 2013, Art Media Agency.

After a very successful exhibition at Geneva’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and the day before his 73^rd birthday, Swiss artist Jean Otth has passed away.

Originally from Lausanne, Otth was one of the pioneers of video art, which he began to focus on in 1971, after a brief spell in the field of painting. The artist explained his approach: “My idea is to add to the movement that a painting creates in its immobility, a movement in itself. It is a time-movement which I also consider to be a colour, that can be added to the painter’s palette.”

His works have been the object of numerous exhibitions, particularly at the musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, but also internationally; the artist participated in dOCUMENTA 6 in Kassel (1977) and in the Venice and São Paulo Biennales. At the latter, he received the Art and Communication Prize in 1973.

Jean Otth biography and works