Guided tour of the exhibition "Jean-François Rey, Typography and Comics"

Name: Visite commentée de l'exposition "Jean-François Rey, Typographie et Bandes dessinées"
Start: 2020-09-19T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-09-19T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Le Signe – Centre national du graphisme

This exhibition presents the typographical work of the artist who created many alphabets for the comic strip, based on the handwritten writings of the authors.

Samedi 19 septembre 2020, 14h00Passé

For the year 2020, which the Ministry of Culture dedicates to comics, the Sign continues its investigations on text and image reports, on the pretext of typographical exploration.
The exhibition Jean-François Rey, Typography and Comics deals with issues inherent to contemporary typographic creation in the field of 9th art. Jean-François Rey, co-director of the creative studio Incandescence, is one of the actors unfairly misunderstood by typographical characters and adaptations applied to comics.
His trajectory made him cross between other Charles Burns, Robert Crumb, Mark Bell, for the editions Cornélius, Bastien Vivès, David B., Dupuy & Berbérian with the publishing house the Association, Marion Montaigne for his recent bestseller «Dans la combi de Thomas Pesquet».
The exhibition will be a pretext to show the evolution of digital tools of typographic character drawings.

À propos du lieu

Le Signe – Centre national du graphisme

Place des Arts, 52000 Chaumont

Haute-Marne
Grand Est

The centre is a continuation of a history that began in 1905 with the bequest of Gustave Dutailly to the town of Chaumont, consisting of 5,000 illustrated posters.
First permanent place dedicated to graphic design in France, Le Signe draws in a collection of 45,000 documents fed by the best productions of the last decades and exhibited between its walls. Art center dedicated to graphic design, it is a platform for production, dissemination, support for creation, dialogue and mediation between the artistic field of graphics and audiences.
Its program of exhibitions, workshops, training and residencies contributes to the recognition, development and influence of graphic design in France and around the world.
Now a Biennale and now supported by Le Signe, this unmissable event has been gathering all artists and graphic designers around the world for nearly 30 years. A work recognized by obtaining in 2020 the label «Centres d'art contemporain d'intérêt national».