Ernest PIGNON-ERNEST (Ernest Pignon, dit)
Born in 1942 in Nice
Lives and works in Paris
Ernest Pignon-Ernest, a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, is a major figure in Urban Art and one of the pioneers of the use of public space as a space for artistic expression. Politically and socially committed, he creates ephemeral works, visual poems, which he affixes to city walls, trying “to make the street a work of art”. He creates silkscreens and black stone drawings, which he prints and affixes onto the walls, doors, staircases, etc., of the city streets. He keeps a photographic record of his works from Naples to Soweto or Paris. The FHEL devoted a major retrospective to him in 2022.
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