Metro in Lausanne
Mix & Remix’s talent deserves an M2 station
Under the leadership of the Drawing Walls Foundation, a hundred works by the deceased artist line the quays of Bessières station.
Travelers are plunged back into the world of Mix & Remix thanks to extracts from its enlarged press drawings and affixed to the stencil.
Yvain Genevay/Tamedia
- The Bessières du M2 station accommodates a hundred Mix & Remix drawings.
- Two monumental reproductions of six meters adorn the façades of the tunnel.
- The artist created nearly 20,000 drawings during his remarkable artistic career.
- An ephemeral exhibition in Pyxis will celebrate the work of the designer in September.
It is now a stop at the station of M2 Bessières in Lausanne to immerse yourself in the bestiary of the designer Mix & Remixdied in 2016. Cows, singers, fishermen, a knight in armor, a tightrope walker and even the nearby cathedral … The two docks are now animated by a hundred press drawings.
After the giant fresco in tribute to Titeuf, produced by the Drawing Walls Foundation At the royallon in 2015, the same association puts the cover, or rather the pencil, in the Lausanne metro. In partnership with public transport in the Lausanne region. “The extracts of press drawings, strongly enlarged and applied with a system of stencils, evoke many representations characteristic of the work of Mix & Remix. They illustrate and celebrate the incredible simplicity, expressiveness and efficiency of its line to tell the world, ”explains the Foundation.
Two monumental mix of mix & remixes
The two entries of the station are now decorated with reproductions signed Mix & Remix 6 meters high.
Yvain Genevay/Tamedia
But that’s not all. “His drawing, freer and less known – that he mainly exercised in the 1990s in the street, for magazines, associations or the legendary club La Dolce Vita – is also at the party,” continues the Foundation. He is praised on the two facades of the opening of the station tunnel, by two monumental reproductions almost six meters high. Inevitable.
Mythical press designer and Swiss artist Romand Mix & Remix, alias Philippe Becquelin, is deceased at the age of 58. He notably made himself famous for the general public by his creation for the Alternative Music Club La Dolce Vita in Lausanne and his mechanical stories, his press drawings for the magazine “L’Hebdo”, “Le Matin Dimanche” as well as the “Infrarouge” television program of the RTS, or his humorous drawings for a collection of educational works published by LEP editions.
From September 11 to 13, the artist will be celebrated by the party in Mix, with a large ephemeral exhibition in Pyxis accompanied by a series of free access events.
Yvain Genevay/Tamedia
During his career, he produced nearly 20,000 simple, scathing and often timeless press drawings. He also worked as a watch at the top of Lausanne cathedral from 1991 to 2001. In a inkjet from Bessières station.
By the end of the year, the tribute to Mix & Remix to Bessières will be completed by a short museum comments made up of a selection of reproductions of his iconic works, photos and an extended biography. Finally, from September 11 to 13, the artist will be celebrated by the party in Mix, with a large ephemeral exhibition at Pyxis accompanied by a series of free access events.
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