For the first time in Hungary, the works of Jacques Villeglé (1926-2021) will be on display.
The artist is considered a forerunner of pop art and herald of street art, whose works were also presented to visitors to the Centre Pompidou in Paris and MOMA in New York. The exhibition On the Walls of the Citry features an exceptional selection of more than 140 works created between 1947 and 2021. The exhibition presents all aspects of the artist's work: torn posters directly from the street, alphabets from graffiti found on the walls, films, stickers, cryptography.
Villeglé was the first artist to bring the language of the street to the museum. In a way, he was the first advocate of urban poetry created by anonymous people, and many street artists considers him both a forerunner and a point of reference.
