The Musée des beaux-arts and the Cité de la dentelle et de la mode de Calais, in association with the Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la Culture propose Libres Figurations années 80, a temporary exhibition that will be displayed in the vast spaces of both museums from June 11, 2021.

Non-academic art, the Free Figurations movement is revealed through more than 200 works by 50 artists and groups of international artists who marked these emblematic years (1979-1986) by their effervescent, vital creations, which shook up the codes of art.

The representatives of the Figuration libre in France (Rémi Blanchard, François Boisrond, Robert Combas, Hervé Di Rosa, Richard Di Rosa, Catherine Viollet...), of the Graffiti in the United States (Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf... ), of the Neue Wilde Malerei in Germany (Elvira Bach, Luciano Castelli, Milan Kunc, Salomé...), of the New Artists in the USSR (Afrika, Timour Novikov, Oleg Kotelnikov...)and of the Media painters (Ripoulin Brothers, Smoking Muslims, Roberto Cabot...).

The exhibited artists : Afrika ; Valeri Alakhov ; Groupe Assa ; Elvira Bach ; Jean-Michel Basquiat ; Ben ; Rémi Blanchard ; François Boisrond ; Ketty Brindel ; Roberto Cabot ; Marie-Odile Camdessus ; Luciano Castelli ; Robert Combas ; Crash ; Walter Dahn ; Daze ; Sharp ; Hervé Di Rosa ; Richard Di Rosa ; Dix/10 ; Jiri Georg Dokoupil ; Frères Ripoulin; Futura 2000 ; Speedy Graphito ; Keith Haring ; Philippe Hortala ; Louis Jammes ; Oleg Kotelnikov ; Kriki ; Andrei Krissanov ; Milan Kunc ; Samantha Mc Ewen ; Mission Totale ; Smoking Muslims ; Timour Novikov ; Ru Xiao-Fan ; Salomé ; Inal Savtchenkov ; Ivan Sotnikov ; Kenny Scharf ; Tseng Kwong Chi ; Igor Veritchev ; Catherine Viollet ; VLP.

The Speerstra Collection participates in the exhibition with works by: Keith Haring, Futura 2000, Sharp, Daze, Crash, Franck Boy, Hérvé Di Rosa, Buddy Di Rosa, Milan Kunc, Les frères Ripoulin, Elvira Bach ..

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