The Speerstra Collection takes part 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 ...
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, offer Libres Figurations années 80, a temporary exhibition that will be on display in the vast spaces of both museums from June 11, 2021.
A non-academic art form, the Libres Figurations movement is revealed through over 200 works by 50 international artists and groups of artists who left their mark on these emblematic years (1979-1986) with their effervescent, vital creations, which shook up the codes of art.
They include representatives of Figuration Libre in France (Rémi Blanchard, François Boisrond, Robert Combas, Hervé Di Rosa, Richard Di Rosa, Catherine Viollet...), Graffiti in the United States (Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf...), Neue Wilde Malerei in Germany (Elvira Bach, Luciano Castelli, Milan Kunc, Salomé...), New Artists in the USSR (Afourik Timbuktu), and the United States. ), the Neue Wilde Malerei in Germany (Elvira Bach, Luciano Castelli, Milan Kunc, Salomé...), the New Artists in the USSR (Afrika, Timour Novikov, Oleg Kotelnikov...)and the Media painters (Frères Ripoulin, Musulmans fumants, Roberto Cabot...).
