Diving into the work of Riad Sattouf at the Center Pompidou Library

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Exhibition "Riad Sattouf: the handwriting" at the Bpi Center Pompidou, Paris. David Pauget / RFI

His autobiographical saga The Arab of the future is still a huge success in bookstores. The work of its author, Riad Sattouf, is currently in the spotlight at the Public Library Information Center Pompidou, until March 11, 2019.

Released last September 27, the fourth volume of his autobiography drawn The Arab of the future is still at the top of sales in bookstores. The name of its author, one of the most popular of the ninth art, has just entered the Robert 2019. Riad Sattouf is in the spotlight in the exhibition dedicated to him at the Public Library Information (BPI) ) of the Pompidou Center, in Paris.

Original plates, sketches, personal items, photographs: the exhibition, entitled "The Comic Writing", is not only interested in the Arabic of the future , but especially in the already prolific work of the artist of 40 years old, creator of The Secret Life of Youth , Pascal Brutal , and Cahiers d'Esther . A designer but also a director, awarded at the Césars in 2009 for Les belles Gosses , comedy with Vincent Lacoste.

Opening of the exhibition today on my work at @Bpi_Pompidou! It's until March 11, 2019, it's beautiful, it's muscular, it's free and I'm proud of it! Send me your photos in the expo! Look forward to seeing you there! pic.twitter.com/CCLejCHgcM

From the observation of the real to the autobiography drawn

This exhibition aims to explore all facets of the artist's universe, and is thus organized in three parts: the observation of reality or the eye of Riad Sattouf on society, youth, as a sociologist ; his graphic art to expose his technical mastery since his early works as the fantastic series Petit Verglas ; and finally the autobiography drawn with The Arab of the Future , where he recounts the memories of his childhood, between East and West.

After Art Spiegelman (2011), Claire Brétécher (2015), and André Franquin (2016), Riad Sattouf is the fourth comic book author whose work is exhibited at the Center Pompidou Public Information Library.

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Admission is free and free for this exhibition which will end on March 11, 2019. Other events are also scheduled. On December 10, a meeting will take place between Riad Sattouf and Émile Bravo, author of Spirou, to discuss the relationship between narrative and drawing in contemporary comics.