Do you like comics? Franquin grinding black, Reiser truculent to the vulgar? Preceded by a text by Thomas Cazentre, curator at the National Library of France, here is gathered in one book the Heads of... Victor Hugo! The word is an understatement. We should speak of trognes as these fantasies for private use, caricatures as satirical as futile, eccentric "doodles" at the margins of manuscripts or letters, prove expressive. They also appear here and there in the 2000 or so drawings left by the poet.
Dreamlike verve
In pencil, charcoal, coal, even soot, these buffoonish faces that, today, sleep mainly at the BnF or at the house of the great man, Place des Vosges, in Paris, fascinated André Breton and most of the surrealists. We see, it is true, the echo of Daumier, Goya, the dreamlike verve of an abyssal black Odilon Redon. Jets of a soul communing with others through stains, stencils, impressions, scratches, blurs or downright "patouillages"...
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