The exhibition has been taking over the Morris columns in downtown Aix-en-Provence since Wednesday.

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Stéphane Trapier

React, adapt, innovate, anticipate… And still adapt according to fluctuating health measures.

Canceled in 2020 due to the first confinement, the Rencontres du 9e art d'Aix-en-Provence comic book festival was keen to be present this year at all costs.

And for that, it goes through the public highway.

After an exhibition hung in the cinemas of the city and devoted to unfinished film posters, the drawings take over the streets.

Exhibition dedicated to cinema

Since Wednesday, the twelve Morris columns in the city center have been occupied by original works by Stéphane Trapier, an artist well known to fans of press cartoons and comics.

Once again, the 9th art flirts with the 7th, since this unusual “exhibition” is devoted to cinema.

With Cinepresque, Trapier revisits twelve films where "Batman and Robin meet John Wayne, Liz Taylor sings Bashung, Frankenstein whistles Joe Dassin and Tarzan comes out".

And to remain relevant, references to Covid, barrier gestures and teleworking are never far away.

With the objective - a priori successful - to make the passerby smile.

Invest the road

“The idea is to make large images available where people walk,” explains Serge Darpeix, the artistic director of the festival.

As the public cannot come to the exhibitions, may the comic book come to them!

In a few weeks, the Rencontres du 9e art will distribute to young people - but not only - free newspapers containing only original boards.

But in the meantime, the festival continues to invest the roadway, because the Morris columns are not the only ones to be occupied: forty Decaux lollipops have also become, since Wednesday, showcases for drawings by Eric Lambé, unique member of the label. Botanike Komiks graphic.

In this series of unpublished images, “the comic book medium becomes a sacred object (…), a divine book whose light and reading could save us from everything”.

Completely what we need right now ...

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