It captures historical themes and makes fun of them, in small self-published books or in comic frescoes. Nayel Zeaiter, graphic master of treasure hunts, whose work is particularly visible in front of the Grand Palais in Paris and the basilica of Saint-Denis.
Under construction until 2025, the Grand Palais is surrounded by a frieze-palisade that tells the life of the building from its construction between 1898 and 1900 until today. We learn that the building, designed to be “Solid, durable and monumental”, was burned during the Liberation of Paris, or that a 1972 exhibition sponsored by President Pompidou was interrupted there by a “Front of visual artists”. This fascinating story, printed on six hundred wood panels, offers a good fifty minutes of reading-walking. It was designed by 34-year-old artist Nayel Zeaiter, who calls himself “History painter”. Without pretending to be a historian, on the contrary “enlightened amateur”, he himself collected the documentation to transpose it into texts and images. The work, commissioned by the Grand Palais, took him a year and a half to complete.
Installed in a workshop of 20And arrondissement of Paris, at the end of a quiet, almost rural alley, this French of Lebanese origins through his father studied art history, learned engraving, then enrolled in the School of Decorative Arts, printed image section. Since her graduation project in 2014, she tries to master drawing, storytelling, typography, layout and editorial techniques. He even created a micro-publishing house, the Understanding the issues.
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