Michel HOSSZU - Coca Cola 7 up - New York 1964, 2019 - Silkscreen signed

Screen print : Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works. In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Michel Hosszù : With Michel Hosszù, it is a small piece of the history of art of the twentieth century that is offered to us and especially that of Pop Art. Warhol and New York Pop Art from the 60s. But let's rewind the movie. Michel Hosszù arrives in the world on October 26, 1944 in Hungary. His mother is French, He arrives in France in 1949. He studied at the Ecole Estienne (the Graduate School of Arts and Graphic Industries) and graduated in hand, he left for the United States. Michel Hosszù arrives New York in 1964, he is twenty years old. He will stay there until 1966. He studied photography and discovered Pop Art. He trailed a bit at Warhol's Factory like so many others. We go in, we go out, the story is running, but who really knows then? Michel sees it unfold before his eyes, he rubs Warhol, he rubs the vanguard of his time, he is twenty. He discovered the use of screen printing and photography in the artistic production of Pop Art. For the young graduate of Estienne, it's a real revelation. But at the end of 1966, the army called him under the flag, he returned to France to do his military service. To say that this event is going to affect his artistic career is not exaggerated. Because it will emerge from his passage under the flags completely broken. At this time, conscription is not especially a place of fulfillment for a young artist. But more broadly, French society is not as progressive in contemporary art as our neighbors across the Atlantic. To understand well, the feeling of helplessness, frustration and finally distrust that Michel Hosszù will end up contracting in front of the market and institutions of art, it is necessary to get back in the context of the time. It was in the eye of the cyclone and here it is in full new realism in France pre-68, well before Yvon Lambert, Daniel Templon decline the avant-garde of the conceptual and minimalist Americans. He continues his research in screen printing and photographic montages and finds his way in the techniques of multiplication, fragmentation and juxtaposition of portraits specific to Pop Art. Always precursor, he adheres to the Mail Art of which he will be an eminent representative in Europe. Not very concerned about his career, but supported by two very great collectors, multiplying collaborations and group shows under the influence of his many artist friends (Assadour Bezdikian, Michel Rabanelly, Michel Vincemot, Vladimir Velikovic, Natasha Krenbol, Jérome Mesnager, Dominique Issermann, Mario Avati, Robert Doisneau, Georges Noêl), he will continue his career as an artist far off the beaten path. In February 1987, when Andy Warhol disappeared, he decided to pay tribute to him while remaining true to his provocative spirit and his ambiguity, and he created the first world stamp with the image of Andy Warhol. In addition to his own works, from that date on, he continuously creates art stamps for other artists, galleries, museums, and companies looking for innovative and original communication support. But let's go back to his work. There is in Michel Hosszù "une mise en abime" of the human destiny by the "Grotesque". This same enclosed space already sealed, at work in ancient tragedy. We find in his Auto macules and his Auto grimaces, this paroxysmic dimension, this grotesque gesture of expression, such a conjuratory excess to our common and tragic destiny. It's time to finally discover Michel Hosszù. 1964 - Germain school of photography New York. 1973 - Krakow: International Biennial of Engraving. 1973 - Paris: Exhibition Publicis. 1973 - Givet. France: 3rd exhibition painting / sculpture / engraving / photography. 1974 - Paris: Museum of Modern Art: Young contemporary engraving. 1974 - Frederikstadt, Norway: Norwegian International Print. 1974 - Paris: French Institute of Innovation and Creativity. 1974 - Krakow: International Biennale of Engraving. 1975 - Luxembourg: Galerie Wierschen. 1975 - Paris: Galerie Maître Albert. 1975 - Krakow: International Biennial of Engraving. 1976 - Paris: Museum of Modern Art, Salon de Mai. 1976 - Krakow: International Biennale of Engraving. 1981 - Paris: Grand Palais - Salon of the Young Painting. 1982 - Paris: Fraiche Painting Gallery. 1982 - Paris: Grand Palais - Salon of the Young Painting. 1982 - Paris: Audiovisual Institute Art and creation. 1983 - Paris: Grand Palais - Salon of the Young Painting. 1984 - Budapest: Young Artist Club, Mail Art. 1987 - Performance "Mondial / stamp - Homage to Warhol". 1987 - Budapest: Art of Today. 1988 - Paris: Loft Gallery. 1988 - Budapest: Art of Today. 1988 - Paris: Creation of a 350 m2 silkscreen on the Citroën ring road. 1989 - Paris: Forum des Halles "Palisade of 28 meters". 1989 - Paris: Direct Marketing Fair. 1989 - Budapest: Art of Today. 1989 - Paris: Centenary of the Eiffel Tower, Rothschild Foundation. 1989 - Paris: "Piracy" of the Génie de la Bastille. 1989 - Barcelona: "Piscolabis". 1989 - Barcelona: Performance-Stamp-Catalunia-Jordi Pujol. 1990 - Performance: "Tribute to the Marquis de Sade. 1990 - Amsterdam: "Paris-Brest". 1990 - Budapest: Art of Today. 1991 - Paris: SAGA, Loft Gallery. 1991 - Amsterdam: XY Gallery. 1992 - Paris: Galerie Isabelle Bongard. 1992 - Compiègne: "Funny to send" 1992 - Budapest: Kasak Museum. 1992 - Paris: Young Painting. 1992 - SAGA 92: "Stamps of art" Michel HOSSZÙ. 1992 - 13th Salon of Marne la Vallée 1993 - PARVI / SPADEM: 1993 - "The Phil'Artistic notebooks" N ° 1 GUERNICA. 1993 - SAGA 93: "Stamps of Art" Michel HOSSZÙ. 1993 - BNP Grande Armée. 1993 - CRDP Art Academy Creteil Academy. 1993 - National School of Decorative Arts. 1993 - Museum of the Post 13 sept - 20 January l994. 1993 - Opening of the Comptoir du Timbre. 1994 - SAGA 94. Personal exhibition. 1994 - Writing (Group show). 1994 - Misappropriation, Savigny le Temple. 1994 - Mail- Art, Hungarian Institute in Paris. 1996 - Exhibition at the Grande Arche. 1996 - Art at the Market. 1996 - DAlAYRAC exhibition, Fontenay sous-bois. 1997 - Gallery SAFIA Barcelona. 1997 - National Humanities Center. Triangle Park, U.S.A. 1998 - SAGA: Personal exhibition. 1998 - Art at the market. 1998 - Art Library Les Mureaux. 1998 - "The Blue Circle" METZ. 1998 - Espace Michel Simon, NOISY the GRAND. 1999 - Art Glue. 2000 - Mail Art and Stamps of Artists, Dome Mediatheque Albertville. 2000 - SAFIA Gallery, Barcelona. 2000 - The New Art Fair, Barcelona. 2000 - Permanent exhibition at "La Fabrique de timbres" in Paris. 2000 - Exhibition on the Internet. 2000 - MBK A NEW WORLD. 2000 - Art Glue. 2001 - Ex-libris, SAFIA Gallery, Barcelona. 2001 - Art-Junction in Nice, Works in collaboration with Raba. 2001 - Gallery Artists Events in Lille, Works on stamps and serigraphs. 2001 - Gallery the windmill of the beautiful banks in Lalinde 24150 (May to October). 2002 - The Courtille, December 2001-January 2002. 2002 - Ecole Estienne, exhibition February 2002. 2002 - Museum of the Post Office in Paris, Group exhibition (September). 2002 - ArcAc group show in Peymeinade. 06530 2003 - Personal exhibition (June-July), Anima Gallery, Lézat on the Eze. 09210 2003 - SAFIA Gallery in Barcelona (June-July). 2003 - Espace Beauregard Paris, exhibition. Mail-Art Group (September). 2003 - the Hall saint Pierre expo. Hosszù-Raba-Krenbol (October 2003). 2004 - Exhibition Gallery "Art Hall" (October). 2005 - Exhibition "The Skin of the Walls", October 2005-February 2006. 2005 - Espace Peiresc-Toulon. 2008 - Mail-Art group exhibition: the Select Montparnasse. 2009 - Exhibition Lavigne Bastille. 2010 - Group Mail Art Exhibition SP-Arts Gallery, rue de Seine. 2011 - Exhibition Taïss Gallery. 2017 - Sofia: Poulpik Gallery Exhibition. 2018 - Sofia: Poulpik Gallery Exhibition.