Publisher Impedimenta publishes work by Catherine Meurisse Art bridge
Lately The bridge of art. Little stories about great friendships between painters and writers editors restraint Increases the list of titles Catherine Meurisse published so far: Literary Comedy. Roland to Boris Vian† lightness and large areas† Translator Ruben Martin GiraldezAn extraordinary opportunity to immerse yourself in the work of Meurisse, the first cartoonist admitted to the French Academy of Fine Arts, within the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.
over doctor steamer †Sarbican, 2019: Handicap, 2022) Meurisse gives us a collection of short stories about the friendly relations between painters and writers, as she announces in her subtitle. From the title’s clear nod to the famous Paris Pont des Arts, Meurisse envisions his distinctive way of merging two arts with countless intersections between them: literature and painting scrolls through the pages through names such as Marcel Proust, Kiki de Montparnasse, Picasso, Apollinaire, André Breton, George Sand, Delacroix, Diderot, Cézanne, Vermeer or Zola.
As in his first long run, Literary Comedy †2008; Disability 2016), Meurisse shamelessly researched the history of French literature, on this occasion showing us his deep knowledge, as well as his admiration for canonical writers and painters, stripping them of any aura to bring them closer to his readers. With humor and familiarity as demystifying emblems of eminent wisdom, and a body of memorized data on histories, artifacts, and movements, The author summarizes a humanized and at the same time eccentric story of his protagonists through a series of episodes presented in a synthetic and fluid manner.
For example, we see Proust’s passion for painting and his relationship with Madeleine Lemaire, who would inspire the character of Madame Verdurin in the famous movie In Search of Lost Time, where she “finished her work late at night” in her living room. Visit Gioconda in 1911 and discover how the first suspicions fell on Picasso and Apollinaire, or how Balzac and Picasso ended up in the same studio in search of Gioconda.
An impressive and sometimes cartoonish line reminiscent of his experience at Charlie Hebdo, Meurisse banishes writers and painters from the tower of ivory elitism sometimes associated with canons or museum spaces to frame them in a personal graphic fiction. it acts as a bridge between the two banks of the river: literature and painting. Thanks to meta-artistic and meta-literary reflection as metaphors, actors and recipients of creation, successive anecdotes and fragments of various genres are articulated around an understanding of art based on two pillars of inspiration and beauty, whatever their nature. artistic manifestation that provokes them
Various names have already been mentioned, lacking the pedestal of the historical building. fictional characters, as pillars of beauty that the reader can enjoy, to the wand voice of immediacy, irony, parody, or everyday life Go beyond their initial knowledge of the relevant disciplines and build with the author a different story that is not always told.
In Le pont des arts, Meurisse includes, in a way, the aforementioned concepts of the extraordinary. lightness† In this album, the author describes how being late for a Charlie Hebdo magazine design team meeting saved his life, but had to face the consequences of an attack directly on the publishing center. From identity, mourning, guilt, fear, melancholy, and sadness to being purged through beauty, which is seen as synonymous with friendship and culture. Art and creation as refuge and salvation from barbarism and trauma.
In this sense, as if it were a reason to be found, lightness †2016; Disability 2017) Cured, doctor steamer accepts the following maxim as a fundamental premise:You need art. we all need art† In this way, it connects the destiny of every person with all the possibilities and possibilities of art to its irreplaceable existence in the flow of life in an inviolable way. It draws a fine line where the four works published by Impedimenta intertwine in a continuum.
So also large areasAs a privileged stage from the framework of rural life and childhood, it leads us to the discovery of the artistic profession through imagination and freedom as approach slogans. The author’s sharp pen is here impregnated with a calculated fusion of craftsmanship and intelligence, interspersed with tenderness and humor. At this time, he was addressing the heavens of his youth without compromise or slipping into pastoralism and idealization, led by the relentless exaggeration of his flaws. Harmony prevails over the accelerated rhythm of capitalism and becomes the protagonist of the rhythm that seduces the reader from the vital balance and fascinated gaze for creation.
as in Literary comedy, lightness and large spaces† restraint It does not neglect the quality of the processing line and therefore offers us very careful printing. doctor steamer† Graphically, the ingenious and caricature drawing stands out, which allows cultural history to change its symbolic names through humor into humanized creatures whose flaws and virtues seek enviable muses. In this sense, contrast stands out as a paradigmatic feature in the drawing of the characters, as well as the meticulous balance between rigorous historical recreation and fictional structure, on which Meurisse bases existing records of behavior and language. Without the possibility pact to be closed to disconnection with the receiver.
As if a precision pointer were just another tile in a mosaic, doctor steamer It has been incorporated into the author’s fascinating creative project from the assumption of the constants mentioned in the previous titles, without losing an iota of originality and freshness.† Meurisse’s work thus constructs a universe of its own in which readers of all kinds, experts as well as novices, can immerse themselves in a wide range of intertextual, meta-literary and artistic knowledge that is not merely presented as an informative anecdote. rather, it is deftly deployed at the service of the graphic story to let you enjoy the beauty that permeates each of its vignettes. The interrelationship between the arts and the necessity of their presence in all vital aspects of man are proclaimed as the slogans of enjoying life. Without a doubt, a title to read, reread, enjoy and use as an introduction to get lost in Meurisse’s wonderful universe.
