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Gymnase du Bugnon
- Type
- School
- Address
- Lausanne
Not open to visitors
A secondary school in Lausanne, where the artist Pierre Keller — later director of ECAL — taught.
Two artists who passed through the same classroom
16 June 1987: Keith Haring’s workshop
Pierre Keller taught here and ran workshops. On 16 June 1987 he brought in Keith Haring, who spent the morning drawing advertising posters for Lucky Strike in ink, each design having to include the brand’s logo.
He made nine, then a tenth for himself: a skeleton smoking a cigarette, which he gave to the school for Pierre Keller’s classroom. His journal notes that the man from Lucky Strike “was not amused”. The students helped him choose the four posters that were kept; he also designed a button for the school.
The button he designed for the school still exists: the school’s name runs above a grinning figure, signed in felt-tip down the right-hand side — “K. Haring © 87, June 16, Lausanne”.
The full account of that day, in his own words, is on his page.
David Bowie tries his hand at engraving
Pierre Keller also asked David Bowie, whom he had met through Claude Nobs, to try his hand at engraving for an exhibition held here. “During his visit, some students made off with the coffee cup he had drunk from,” Keller recalls.
Related artists :Keith HaringDavid Bowie