Exhibitions:
ART OF SKATE – skateboarding from California to Pécs
Pécs Gallery (7621 Pécs | 7-8 Széchenyi Square)
24 May — 15 Sept 2024
The exhibition of the Pécs Gallery presents the history and art of skateboarding from its first attempts to become an Olympic sport. The exhibition presents skateboards featuring some 150 works of art, relics of the skateboarding lifestyle, related fashion and works of art, photos and cultural phenomena.
The curator of the exhibition is independent curator Philippe Danjean, who will bring the material to Pécs, which was presented last year with great success at the Fluctuart, a street art museum in Paris.
Street Up - International urban art exhibition
m21 Gallery, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter (7626 Pécs | 21 Major Street)
30 May — 22 Sept 2024
With the cooperation of the American curator Yasha Young, founder of the Urban Nation street art museum in Berlin, the works of Hungarian, Polish, French, Austrian and Romanian artists can be seen in the m21 Gallery. The highlight of the event will be provided by the three eminent creators of the genre, who, in addition to their previous works, will also present works of art created on site. One of the eminent creators of street art books, Millot from Italy, as well as Berlin-based Urban Nation creators Christian Bömer and Adult Remix, as well as Erell, Jana &JS, NDZW and Lost Optic will also be here. The transitional genre of fine art is represented by the artist collective Société Réaliste, who are engaged in collecting and reinterpreting signs of social publicity in their works.
On the walls of the city – exhibition by Jacques Villeglé
m21 Gallery, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter (7626 Pécs | 21 Major Street)
20 June — 22 Sept 2024
For the first time in Hungary, the works of Jacques Villeglé (1926-2021) will be on display.
The artist is considered a forerunner of pop art and herald of street art, whose works were also presented to visitors to the Centre Pompidou in Paris and MOMA in New York. The exhibition On the Walls of the Citry features an exceptional selection of more than 140 works created between 1947 and 2021. The exhibition presents all aspects of the artist's work: torn posters directly from the street, alphabets from graffiti found on the walls, films, stickers, cryptography.
Villeglé was the first artist to bring the language of the street to the museum. In a way, he was the first advocate of urban poetry created by anonymous people, and many street artists considers him both a forerunner and a point of reference.
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