Villa du Parc - Annemasse

The Villa du Parc presents a large-scale artistic project by the duo Hippolyte Hentgen, formed by French artists Lina Hentgen and Gaëlle Hippolyte. They are designing an in situ production, a monumental outdoor mural for the east facade of the art center, accompanied by a monographic exhibition throughout the interior spaces, entitled “Chambre à deux lits” (Twin Room). The facades of the Villa du Parc are striking markers of the artistic identity of the art center in Parc Montessuit and the city of Annemasse. They are custom-designed works of art created to match the scale of the building’s architecture and installed for several years. Friselis, the new east facade created by Hippolyte Hentgen, replaces Christophe Cuzin’s iconic red work Léger décalage (2006) and plays off Aimée, the north facade created in 2021 by Swiss painter Renée Levi. Hippolyte Hentgen’s project was unanimously selected from several designs commissioned from female artists in the French art scene. It is an opportunity for the duo, known and renowned for their drawing and collage work, to further develop their practice of spray-painted and flat-colored murals, which they have been working on in recent years. The jury was won over by their vibrant and colorful proposal in the wooded setting of the park, the interplay of echoes and nods to the architecture through the hybridization of decorative styles, and the optimistic, geometric and pop dynamic of their project, which is in keeping with their long-standing collaborative visual art. The immersion into Hippolyte Hentgen’s prolific universe, remixing many references, continues inside the Villa du Parc, where the duo presents a wide range of their collages, murals, drawings, and sculptures, which will joyfully fill the space from June 28 to December 21, 2025. The succession of rooms provides an opportunity to display a range of varied, all-over series and plastic environments that Hippolyte Hentgen brings up to date and revisits in this domestic setting.

La Villa du Parc présente | Friselis | un projet du duo d’artistes Hippolyte Hentgen. Friselis | prend place | pour plusieurs années sur la façade Est du centre d’art et vient remplacer l’œuvre rouge | Léger décalage | de Christophe Cuzin. Le projet d’Hippolyte Hentgen a été sélectionné à l’unanimité, et peint début juin par les artistes sur place. Acidulée et vibrante, l’œuvre murale et monumentale panache des styles décoratif, géométrique et pop’, et a été réalisée à partir de plusieurs techniques picturales.