The CowParade or Vach' Art in French, is an exposure connected to art which is held or was held in various cities around the world.

It consists of the exposure of Sculpture S of Vache S in Glass fiber distributed in the downtown areas in public places like subway stations, avenues or parks. Delivered white, they are decorated by the local artists and with the fashion designers, who often use drawings and reasons specific to the local cultures.

“It is advertizing disguised and not of the Mécénat. One spoke much more about the banks or the trade which bought the cows that artists who painted them. Those could not do besides what they wanted, from where “convivial” character of the event. It is necessary to take care not to shock the consumer who must be of good mood to consume”

After each exposure, which lasts several months, the cows are sold with the biddings and the profits given to charitable organizations.

The cows comprise few variations and the three most common forms were created by Pascal Knapp, a Swiss sculptor specifically charged by the organization with the CowParade of the creation of the sculptures. It is with Chicago that the concept started to have an international repute: the business man Peter Hanig, supported by Laws Weisberg of the agency of the cultural affairs of the city, organized the event in Chicago in 1999. The exposure of the cows ( Cows Is paraded) attracted a million visitors.

Cities having received the exposure

Among works

• in Paris, 150 works:
• "Cow Around the Clock" : imagined by Christian Ghion, Designer and Interior designer and realized by Basile Huez, Designer and Interior designer and Benjamin Tortiger, Designer and Interior designer, a cow on which is painted a labyrinth containing the twelve figures of the hours.
• " Say it with fleurs" realized by Frederic Périnon, a buccolic cow, an Adventitious field of S on blue sky.
• " Geneviève" decorated by Sandrine Courau and imagined by Patrick Frey, a wink with fabric created in the years 1930 by his/her mother.
• " Taste of the naturel" , realized by Jean-Pierre Aldebert, a cow green apple with large flowers of daisies, boots green, gilded horns, one worse and pink lips.
• " The Time of the séduction" , realized by Chantal Thomas, a homage to femininity.
• " Pop Art" , realized by the collective Undermined Lanuzzi
• " Vacca Sacra" , avoided like a diva in a baroque spirit with many jewels, works realized by Christian Lacroix.

• in Marseilles, 63 works:

• "Manhattan Cow" realized by Guy Tempier, a varnished black cow, representing an American car. .à la ecological consumption " Unleaded Milk Only!! "

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