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This is the first Swiss exhibition devoted to the emergence of hip-hop culture in French-speaking Switzerland in the early 1980s, represented by local graffiti artists Koze and Sena, born in 1969 and 1968 respectively. At the same time, it presents an archive of exhibitions and visits to Switzerland by New York graffiti artists (A-One, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Crash, Daze, Keith Haring, Phase 2 and Rammellzee) during the same decade. This movement was born between Philadelphia and New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition concludes with the contemporary work of César Bilavie, an artist from Lausanne who deconstructs the codes of classic graffiti using supports and techniques borrowed from contemporary art. The work Les mangroves célestes was created specifically for this occasion and painted on a paraglider canvas from the 1990s.
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This is the first Swiss exhibition devoted to the emergence of hip-hop culture in French-speaking Switzerland in the early 1980s, represented by local graffiti artists Koze and Sena, born in 1969 and 1968 respectively. At the same time, it presents an archive of exhibitions and visits to Switzerland by New York graffiti artists (A-One, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Crash, Daze, Keith Haring, Phase 2 and Rammellzee) during the same decade. This movement was born between Philadelphia and New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition concludes with the contemporary work of César Bilavie, an artist from Lausanne who deconstructs the codes of classic graffiti using supports and techniques borrowed from contemporary art. The work Les mangroves célestes was created specifically for this occasion and painted on a paraglider canvas from the 1990s.
This project represents the first curatorial stage of a long-term research project. It begins in 2020 with the writing of a...More
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