Gaétan Nocq, Efa and Yannick Corboz Exhibition

With his masterful use of shades of blue and purple, Gaétan Nocq has captivated us with his album Les Grands Cerfs (published by Maghen, 2021), a comic art adaptation of Claudie Hunzinger's novel. His pages, along with illustrations created for the exhibition, will adorn the gallery walls and invite us to immerse ourselves in the heart of the Vosges forests, on the lookout for the great deer. This album, which is a powerful ecological appeal, is beautifully embodied by Gaétan Nocq. The artist, who is both a painter and a sketchbook artist, has captured the hushed atmosphere of this land populated by majestic animals and enhanced it with his unique and evocative graphics.

The exhibition will also explore different facets of Efa's work, one of the few comic artists capable of mastering several color drawing techniques with ease. For the album Degas, La Danse de la solitude (published by Le Lombard, 2021), the artist naturally opted for pastels, reminiscent of the master's works. For Monet, nomade de la lumière (Monet: itinerant of art, published by Le Lombard, 2017), he chose gouache, while he set his sights on watercolor for Django Main de feu (Django, Hand on Fire, published by Dupuis, 2020). The original pages from these three albums and the previously unseen artworks displayed in the exhibition reveal Efa's graphic power through his mastery of light and bold colors.

The exhibition will end on a sensual note with Yannick Corboz's artwork for the diptych Les Rivières du Passé (Rivers of the Past), the second part of which will be published on August 25 by Daniel Maghen. A series of watercolors created especially for the exhibition will be unveiled alongside some twenty original pages—the only ones created by the artist using traditional techniques—and four illustrations for the series' covers. This will be an opportunity to admire the flexibility and dynamism of Yannick Corboz's lines, which literally explode in his drawings.