Specializing for almost 30 years in comic book originals, Huberty & Breyne is one of the international references in the field of the 9th Art. Present in Brussels and Paris, the gallery offers collectors a rigorous selection of original works signed by the greatest masters of the line such as Hergé, Franquin, Martin, Hubinon or Schuiten. This new exhibition will honor Vincent Perriot.
Born in Olivet in 1984, Vincent Perriot is a passionate designer, hailed very early by the critics: in 2001, when he was only seventeen, he won the Grand Écureuil d’or in Angoulême then, in 2005 , the Young Talents Award. In 2010, with Arnaud Malherbe, he received the Young Talents Prize for Comics in Saint-Malo. In 2019, he won the Saint-Michel Prize for Screenplay for Negalyod – subject of the exhibition. Perriot studied at the fine arts of Angoulême.
Revealed in the independent edition (Coconino, Clafoutis, Editions de la Cerise), he fully discovered himself in the adventure comic (Taïga Rouge at Dupuis Aire Libre, Belleville story and Paci at Dargaud), and reinvents itself at Casterman with Negalyod to become a new classic.
This new saga tackles our major social issues with virtuosity through science fiction. In the first volume Jarri, a shepherd of dinosaurs, decides to go to the capital to take revenge for the destruction of his flock by the “Great Network”. A struggle made of hope and humanism begins, in the midst of a technoscientific dystopia. Thus, in volume 2, thousands of survivors set sail to invent new possibilities.
Credit: Negalyod, 2021 Volume 2 – Plate 69 India ink on paper, 32 x 23.4 cm
Through the line and the narration, the viewer takes part in all these creative processes, seduced by the accuracy and energy of the author’s immersive drawing. Perriot depicts with grandeur and realism sprawling cities and multiple natural spaces populated by thousands of animals and humans. He blows up frames, twists perspectives, flirts with mysticism when he evokes the relationship with the earth and natural elements, as in a Tarkovsky film. He is inspired by Moebius and his ” technical and spiritual investment of every moment “. He also evokes Miles Davis by his ability to improvise with the freedom and precision that this imposes.
For Perriot, exhibiting these original boards is essential and gratifying because it allows the viewer to pass on a part of his life. The fruit of six years of work, they embody a vision that is both open and introspective on the current and future world.
In the context of this exhibition, the dialogue established between each of the works generates new stories. The author considers his plates as alive: each line, meticulous or free, testifies to a mood at a given moment. Each work is a new look at the world, a set of imaginative materials that only asks to be (re) interpreted.
This is the challenge of this exhibition: to allow Perriot readers to become, during the exhibition, actors in a creative process; invite art lovers to immerse themselves in a graphic story without compromise; to underline how much the comic strip has the power to summon other arts to reach its full singularity.
Credit: Negalyod, 2021 Volume 2 – Plate 171 India ink on paper, 32 x 23.5 cm
PRACTICAL INFORMATION :
Preview on Wednesday September 01, 2021 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., in the presence of the artist
Exhibition from Thursday 02 September to Saturday 18 September 2021
36 avenue Matignon 75008 Paris
Monday> Saturday 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Credit: Negalyod, 2021 Volume 2 – Album cover Indian ink on paper, 37.3 x 28.3 cm
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