Sandro Bocola

After studying for one and a half years at the School for Arts and Crafts in Basel, Bocola started a career as an artist.

During a ten-year stay in Paris and his moving in 1969, together with his family, to Zürich, Bocola was simultaneously working as graphic designer and artist.

[1] Bocola's artistic production can be divided in three epochs: 1950 – 55 (from cubism to non figurative geometric abstraction) 1965 – 72 (fusion of fotographic figuration wit geometric graphic elements) 2002 – 05 (Altering this concept by introducing digital processing) One man shows in Basel, Geneva and Barcelona, group shows in Basel, Zürich, Geneva, Paris, London, Oslo, Eindhoven, Berlin, New York, Philadelphia and Caracas.

In 1968, he founded (together with three partners: Heinz Bütler, Rolf Fehlbaum and Erwin Meierhofer) the Multiple Edition Xartcollection.

In 1959, the Swiss department store Globus hired Bocola to conceive and design the exhibition "Man as reflected in Science" in the shop windows of its Basel branch.

Starting in 1981 Bocola wrote a series of articles and books on social history and the psychology of art.