To exist at all costs, the Rencontres du 9e Art d'Aix-en-Provence, which since 2004 has offered two months of celebrations dedicated to comics each spring, made a bet: to invest the street.
To offer the public an enchanted stroll, the organizers have decided to divert the networks of displays from the public space to exhibit the artists.
The solution allowed the event to continue until the end of May, despite the pandemic, when it had been forced to cancel its previous edition.
"In view of the evolution of the current health situation, we are unable to envisage a precise opening date and favorable conditions for working with cultural establishments that can receive the public,"
explain the organizers
.
The programming of the Rencontres du 9e Art must therefore reinvent itself and offer new formats in order to be able to exist differently. ”
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Among these open-air exhibitions, the Aixois can admire until May 5, the vintage illustrations of Stéphane Trapier which cover the Morris columns of the city center with twelve unpublished creations.
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“
Trapier is an ace of copying, a cador of collage who diverts vintage illustrations or neighborhood cinema images to sometimes associate them with extracts from popular songs.
In this absurd mixture, between drawings and texts, the illustrations emanate a sweet scent of “disconnection” which would not have displeased Roland Topor ”
presents the official website of the festival.
In the imagination of the poster artist for the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris, “
Batman and Robin meet John Wayne, Liz Taylor sings Bashung, Frankenstein whistles Joe Dassin and Tarzan comes out.
"
Decaux billboards are also involved.
Until April 27, forty drawings by Eric Lambé, the author of
Landscape after the battle
- Fauve d'or 2017 in Angoulême, are offering a series “
which questions our reality and the comic book medium
”.
Through this exhibition,
“the hardcover album appears like a divine book whose light and reading could save us from everything”.
This singular author is the unique member of the graphic label Botanike Komiks, a label creating "
mainly short stories, alternately poetic, humorous and grating
", specifies the festival.
Eric Lambé's work exhibited in Aix-en-Provence.
Éric Lambé / Meetings of the 9th art
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