Exhibition «Jean-François Rey, Typography and comics»

Name: Exhibition «Jean-François Rey, Typography and comics»
Start: 2020-09-18T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-09-20T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Le Signe, Centre National du Graphisme

Discover the typographical work of the artist who made many alphabets for the comic strip, based on the handwriting of the authors.

18 - 20 September 2020Passed

Conditions

Free and free admission

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.

About the location

Le Signe, Centre National du Graphisme

1 place Emile Goguenheim, 52000 Chaumont

Haute-Marne
Grand Est

Chaumont and the poster are bound by a common destiny since the donation of the deputy Gustave Dutailly - nearly 5,000 old posters - in 1905\.
Representative of the «golden age» of the French illustrated poster, the Dutailly collection is one of the main French public collections in the field. The rediscovery of this heritage in the 1980s led to the creation of an international poster festival, followed by a graphic arts festival, which enriched the collection with posters sent to the competition by graphic designers from all continents. Chaumont’s contemporary poster collection now includes approximately 45,000 iconic pieces of the best international poster production in recent decades.
It is on the quality of this collection and the recognition of the festival that developed the project of establishing in Chaumont the first permanent place in France dedicated to graphics. The centre is located on the site of the former Banque de France.