Art Valais Wallis
Art Valais Wallis is a cultural project in the canton of Valais .
The program is carried out by the art association of the same name, founded in 2019 and based in Sion, under the direction of Lausanne street art artist Issam Rezgui (* 1983) , who has been active in Valais for twenty years, and Gregory Pages. The association realizes large-format works of the genre art in buildings throughout the canton of Valais. In fifty municipalities from Goms to Lake Geneva , he is planning new works of contemporary art in collaboration with the participating artists and the municipal authorities . The group of works ultimately forms an artistic theme trail through the entire canton.
The project is supported by the canton of Wallis, the Valais Wallis / Promotion organization and Culture Valais .
The first work of the art project was a mural by the artist "Jasm 1" (stage name of Issam Rezgui) on the facade of the Charles Clos Olsommer museum in Veyras in the Sierre district in spring 2020 . Other murals in the series can be found on the building of the Association sierroise de loisirs et culture in Siders and in Fully .
Web links
- Art Valais Wallis: un musée valaisan à ciel ouvert. canal9, May 22, 2020, accessed July 5, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of Issam Rezgui
- ↑ Issam Rezgui organized the Visual Art Festival in Crans-Montana together with Gregory Pages.
- ^ Xavier Duroux: Art Valais Wallis propose un musée à much ouvert. In: Le Nouvelliste , June 4, 2020.
- ↑ Sierre: une fresque géante orne la paroi de l'ASLEC. In: Le Nouvelliste, July 3, 2020, accessed on July 5, 2020.
- ↑ Le home de Fully s'orne d'une fresque d'envergure In: Le Nouvelliste, June 30, 2020, accessed on July 5, 2020.