From the station of Landerneau (Finistère) to the Hélène & Édouard Leclerc Fund for culture housing the “Enki Bilal” exhibition, there are only a few minutes. But they are essential. This period of time functions as a temporal decompression airlock. As soon as you enter the 1,000 m2 of this vast Breton granite building, it is as if you were stepping inside a stone vessel ready to take off. The direction? A journey to the heart of the “Bilal effect”.
At 68, working on the sequel to his Bug series, the artist is far from having said his last word. For the first time, Bilal has accepted that an exhibition be devoted to his entire career. Black cap screwed on the head, piercing gaze, smirk, the author of La Foire aux Immortels roams the rooms adorned with nearly 250 original works. He walks there in the company of the curator of the exhibition, Serge Lemoine, former director of the Musée d'Orsay who was responsible for establishing a fairly
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