16.03.2024 @ Plaine Mort

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Imagine getting your best tattoo up in the sky !

Embarque on a unique adventure, board the gondola taking you up to 3000m taking you up to the Glacier Plaine Morte and trust Tami to make your best tattoo !

Tami Hopf, famous Vevey based painter, illustrator and tattoo artist came back to Crans-Montana after her VAF participation for a unique event. Tattoo island, during two days tattoo fanatics could come to Crans, come by pedalo to VAF island and get an original and very sought after Tami Hopf tattoo. What better to get an open air tattoo by one of Switzerland’s best tattoo artist on a private island.

Geneva based Kevin Masson and Le boeuf did a second weekend after to go on with the successful Tattoo Island.

To create another exceptional and transcending event VAF turned to Alexandre Ghandour. The pitch dinner on an island.

Alex hence created a dinner experience that started on the pedalo that brought the guests to the island.

The menu was then served on a table that was half eatable and half decoration, only to end the dinner with a traditional lebanese dessert only reserved to elite guests, to make it even more spectacular he had to fish the dessert from the lake. All in all an night to remember or as he named it Poisson party

After their first intervention at the first Vision Art Festival spanish artists Okuda and Felipe Pantone came back in April of 2016 to take care of the visual art part of the famous Caprices Festival, Switzerland’s renowned electronic music festival.

For the first time the two artists painted together to give the festival a nice arty vibe. 

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Since the Panorama restaurant closed and the new project was not approved yet, the building seemed more like a ruin.

Thanks to the help of later architect Jean-Pierre Emery Los Bitchos were commissioned to repaint the building. It was decided the building would get a Marlow Moss touch to it.

When Paris gallerist and founder of Djerbahood Medhi Ben Cheikh launched the District 13 art fair, some of VAF participating artists were represented at the fair through the Project 3963 booth.

Branded arts organized the Maya Angelou high school art festival with a huge number of internationally acclaimed artists, as part of an ongoing collaboration between Branded Arts and VAF, Branded Arts decided to invite JASM1 as the swiss representative for that project. On his first LA stint JASM1 decided to use portraits taken by JR to give some students the chance to give life to Maya Angelou’s famous sentence – Still we rise.

Branded Arts a organisé le Maya Angelou high school art festival avec un grand nombre d’artistes de renommée internationale, dans le cadre d’une collaboration continue entre Branded Arts et VAF, Branded Arts a décidé d’inviter JASM1 comme représentant suisse pour ce projet. Pour son premier passage à Los Angeles, JASM1 a décidé d’utiliser des portraits pris par JR pour donner à certains étudiants la chance de donner vie à la célèbre phrase de Maya Angelou – Still we rise.

Every year the Crans-sur-Sierre golf club host the Omega European Masters, one of Europe’s premier golf tournaments. They charged VAF to create an evolving art piece in relation to the ongoing tournament. The piece was painted on the entrance of the food/shop village and covered 30 m of length, a big challenge to paint in 4 days. Geneva based artist Tones One and Lausanne artist Jasm one each painted one edition, until Covid changed the tournaments set up.

Founded in 2016, The Solar Panel Art Series aligns science and art. With every edition we work with artists and local partners to create a platform where climate action, renewable energy social justice & artistic creativity meet. SPAS up-cycles used solar panels, bound for landfills, by inviting artists from across the globe to use them as their medium to imagine a future for our planet that we can’t yet fathom — one where all people share the power of the sun.

Artworks are subsequently sold, with proceeds shared equally among artists, projects, and Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun Foundation “Solar Kids School Program”. We believe in the power of art creating positive impact and promoting social awareness & change, highlighting the potential where art, technology and nature can co-exist.

In 2017 Vision Art and Solar Panel art series collaborated and held an exhibition in the prestigious Crans-Ambassador hotel. Several pieces from Vincent Edmond Louis, Jasm1, Spher, Boris Chiarada, Kespo, Jo Vargas and Pierre Zufferey were especially created for that exhibition.

The young chamber of commerce needed a symbol for their event, the theme was space.

So obviously. Sorry rocket by GYPSBERG & GOGUESEV was the obvious choice. All guests couldn’t miss the place as the direction given was- look for the 13 m high rocket.

For the Fis World Cup Los Bitchos was given the challenge to create a sculpture that represents the event. So Barras Enseigne created a 3D model of a skier in Race position and Los Bitchos painted the skier on top of his roundabout.

Crans-Montana based artist Guillen created a landart piece on a snowpark kicker in honor of his cousin Paloma.

Los Bitchos and Crans-Montana based sock company Onze created a limited edition VAF X Onze sock inspired by Los Bitchos artworks and produced with recycled material.

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Le S’ilo Bar Restaurant in Sion hosted a special VAF night. The artists present where a Rosie Monks livepainting, as well as a huge Projection on the flower silo of the bar, by french artist Julien Nonnon

After having hosted more than 50 artists and 5 yeras of hard work to develop an open air museum it was time to put everthing on paper.

During two month Jo Vargas and Vincent Edmond Louis put all they had, to create a book more than worth of the masterpieces the artists created while being here in Crans-Montana. If you want to have the best recap possible of what has been done so far, you have no choice but pass by our e-shop and order the book.

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The Pink Circle tries to offer its members insights and behind the scenes experiences. So when Phillipe Baudelocque came back for a new project, he gave a little conference infront of his monumental wall piece at the Barzettes. The little conference on how he realized his work was followed by an Apero.

During the Eclectica event, an exceptional car exhibition and elegance competition, Vaf Artist Cedric Mabillard and Mr Ze redesigned an old Citroen DS.

The kids where of course not left behind and had the opportunity to paint an old Fiat 500 respecting the theme peace, Love and Ice Cream

Every year Vision Art hosts one or two parties at our favorite party venue Monkies Bar, Vaf provides to these dates the DJs and the bar has hosted several artists to paint the interior.

During his second stint at VAF Josh Everhorn wandered off into the mountains, to create ephemeral pieces in dialogue with the mountain. He used cellograph foil placed between trees to sublime the surrounding panorama.

In 1918 Swiss artist ferdinand Hodler painted a series of paintings depicting the mountain landscape he could see from Crans-Montana. The series was later called Lacs de Montana.

A hundred years later with swiss artist Jasm1 we analyzed the paintings and tried to guess where he stood when painting these masterworks.

Our decision fell on a prairie that is nowadays a mountain pasture for the local Herens cows. So between the cows and sleeping in a transformed container during a weekend Jasm 1 recreated these masterpieces as big Instagram selfies, with several references to the artist included.