Published to accompany an exhibition opening on 29 May 2024 at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, this is a riveting and brilliantly illustrated celebration of the international comic book landscape over the past six decades.
The story begins in 1964, a key year in comics' shift from being driven by commercial potential into a means of self-expression respected not just as entertainment but also as art. The book is organized into fourteen thematic sections around subjects including the counterculture, science fiction, horror, architecture, comedy and more. It is illustrated by 300 works from the best-known artists and writers - from Robert Crumb, Hergé and Claire Bretécher to Akira Toriyama and Alan Moore - and features interviews with major artists including Joe Sacco.
A selection of renowned specialists contribute essays tracing comics' evolution up to the emergence of today's global, digital scene and the medium's likely future.
Inès van den Kieboom paints in a remarkably anticyclical manner. Through the calm, unassuming conviction with which she pursues her artistic goals, as well as through her archaic, supratemporal pictorial inventions, she shows the present what art really is ? and what it has the potential to be.? - Markus Stegmann. Inès van den Kieboom (b. 1930 in Ostend; lives and works in Antwerp) has been painting since the 1960s, yet she only decided to exhibit her paintings in the last two years. Van den Kieboom mainly finds inspiration for her works in her everyday surroundings, but also in art history, popular culture and current affairs. She paints or draws her subjects through the filter of her memories or impressions, which she depicts figuratively, abstracted to their essence. Van den Kieboom's self-assured, lively and energetic paintings offer new perspectives on the way we observe the world. In collaboration with Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp, where the artist's retrospective runs from 23 March to 20 May 2023. With text contributions by Petra Maclot and Markus Stegmann. Text in English, French and Dutch. SELLING POINTS: . The first monograph on Belgian artist Inès Van den Kieboom 150 colour, 2 b/w illustrations
What if animals were the only survivors? This new photographic series by Henk van Rensbergen is uncanny and spellbinding as it pictures a post-apocalyptic world. The captivating beauty of the desolation conveyed by his Abandoned Places books persists in these images, but gains an added dimension with the depiction of animals in search of their place in a world once dominated by human beings. Desmond Morris, the world famous zoologist and artist wrote an introduction and the author Peter Verhelst composed a memorable epilogue.
