From Tinguely to Kévin Germanier, to Warhol and Haring, How the Montreux Jazz Festival Created a Unique Artistic Heritage Thanks to Its Posters

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Since its birth in 1967, the musical event has been able to create a remarkable corpus of posters. Pioneer in the field, it owes it to collaborations with contemporary art stars... and to the vision of personalities with a well tempered character"I was born in Switzerland within a family that had no connection with the artistic world and it is thanks to unusual mediums such as Keith Haring's posters for the Montreux Jazz Festival [MJF] that I di…