Planted at the end of the earth, signalling the rocky line of the coasts, implemented and guarded by rigorous, solitary men, the lighthouses fascinated the artists.
Here, they are the authors of comic books.
The images that follow one another along this walk will allow you to meet many of them.
The comic book has appropriated the theme. The pencil, pen or brush of the designer declines the object, plants the decor, distributes the roles according to its plastic singularity. Here is the artist torn between maritime realism and the legendary charge of a place where the obsessive delusions of a guardian. Here the storm is under the skull of the artists. Convinced that they must, in one stroke, give to see the moving elements or the madness of men.
We invite you to continue discovering the exhibition … when LIGHTHOUSES inspire… at the Maison des Écrivains de la Mer, facing the sea, near the Josephine tower, one of the fires of the port of Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie.