Ok so this is something of a re-post lifted from the excellent designboom.com. Re-posting content in such verbatim fashion is something In which I tend to shy away from, but since it concerns quite possibly the worlds premier Sci-Fi Illustrator I’ve made an exception! We are of course talking of French comic artist/legend Jean Giraud, better known as Moebius and this article relates to his current exhibition “Transe-Forme” which is running now at Fondation Cartier in Paris until Saturday the 13th March, 2011. So as of time posting you have roughly a month too experience it.
Read the full article over at DesignBoom with a much larger selection of images of this simply stunning exhibition.
Many thanks to Manchester based Illustrator/Designer Ben Lamb for originally pointing me towards the article…
*** Quick amend thanks to Micheal Van
Official Home page of exhibition: http://www.moebius-transe-forme.com/
Check these videos from/of Moebius for exhibition http://dai.ly/e86lED
Man, I’d love to see that exhibit!
I remember reading some of his stuff years ago, but haven’t found much in Canada lately…
HI Parker,
yeah looks great, I wont be able to make it alas… to be honest I’m not that familiar with much of his work either, this is one book I’d like to get my hands on though:
http://nutintheshell.blogspot.com/2010/01/moebius-more-art-of-fifth-element.html
Wow! I wish I could see it too!!!! Amazing exhibition.
But at least I bought a copy of the exhibition catalogue, (http://fondation.cartier.com/?_lang=en&small=0&i=143832) … it´s huge!
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Phenomenal stuff. Wonderful art, amazing exhibition.
The exhibition does indeed look amazing. Mildly envious of French culture being able to confidently stage such expansive exhibitions on comic book artists/illustrators in the same way as it would fine artists.
Any tips out there on where to start with picking up affordable english-language collections of Moebius’s work?
offical Home page of exhibition
http://www.moebius-transe-forme.com/
Check those videos from/of Moebius for exhibition
http://dai.ly/e86lED
Cheers for those links – I’ll amend the page
For those who couldn’t make such an amazing exhibition, I recommend buying the book.. incredible, beautiful book!