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When the metro becomes a museum to celebrate Mix & Remix
The Bessières station of the M2 will turn into a permanent gallery dedicated to the French -speaking press designer. Similarly, This project gives life to a work “as immense as it is brilliant”.
Posted today at 12:43 p.m.
The Bessières station of the lausanne: when metro becomes museum M2 Lausannois will host in August a permanent tribute to the press designer Mix & Remix. Furthermore, Disappeared in 2016. Nevertheless, According to a press release published this Tuesday by public transport in the Lausanne region (TL). Furthermore, the project provides for a complete dressing of the station with a selection of drawings by the artist, whose real name was Philippe Becquelin.
The initiative carried by the Drawing Murs Foundation will transform the station into a real open -air museum. Moreover, The choice of place is not trivial: Mix & Remix had close links with the Bessières bridge. Similarly, having collaborated with the music club The Dolce Vitaoccupied the post of Watch out of Lausanne cathedral and created for The magazine “L’Hebdo” whose offices were at the end of the bridge.
A project supported by the lausanne: when metro becomes museum family. the TL
The wife of the designer, Dominique Becquelin, as well as his children Paul and Louiza provided their enthusiastic support to the project. The TL, owners of the premises, provide the necessary infrastructure and carry out the preparatory work. “By inviting art to an M2 station. we transform an ordinary waiting moment into a poetic parenthesis,” explains Giuseppe Luciano, director customer relations at the TL, quoted in the press release.
The work started on June 23 with the installation of scaffolding on the two quays. will continue in stages until the beginning of August. The artistic intervention will cover the entire station with characters. animals characteristic of the style of Mix & Remix, but also works celebrating its more artistic work.
A festive inauguration in September
From lausanne: when metro becomes museum September 11 to 14. “La Fête à Mix” will mark the official inauguration with exhibitions, workshops, projections, meetings and musical evenings in the vicinity of the station. “Mix & Remix left too early. We also have the feeling that we have forgotten him too quickly when he bequeathed us as immense as it is brilliant. “said Philippe Duvanel, vice-president and artistic manager of the project, according to the press release.
Funding is provided by several public. private partners, notably the city of Lausanne, the Loterie Romande, pensions populaires, the Vaudoise federation of entrepreneurs, the Jan Michalski Foundation and the Philanthropic Family Sandoz Foundation. This is the second project of the Drawing Walls Foundation after the Titeuf fresco carried out in 2015 at the royallon.
During his career, Mix & Remix produced nearly 20,000 press drawings. The Bessières station. lausanne: when metro becomes museum frequented daily by tens of thousands of travelers and travelers, will thus offer permanent access to the work of this French -speaking Swiss artist who died at the age of 58.
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