Polyfocal Allover

For over 50 years as a leading figure of Photorealist painting, Franz Gertsch (b. 1930, Switzerland) has created lively, expansive portraits of charismatic youths and meditative depictions of nature in vivid and painstaking detail. Polyfocal Allover surveys paintings from 1970 to 1982 and woodcut prints from 1979 to 2019, reflecting a vision in which all that lies within the frame is given equivalent value. The essays, interviews and conversations in this publication bring further definition to the lives and landscapes that Gertsch renders with virtuosic precision.