Yannick Corboz & Thimothée Montaigne Exhibition

Yannick Corboz has a rare talent for eroticism, both in comic art and illustration. Inspired by masters such as Milo Manara and Guido Crepax, his elegant graphic style combines light lines with delicate ink coloring. The exhibition showcases his adaptation of Le Voleur d'amour, based on the work of Richard Malka, through a selection of original pages from the album. Corboz expresses the full potential of his drawing in the play of texture, material effects and transparency, beautifully rendered by his flat areas of colored ink. His pen caresses the shapes, emphasizing each curve. The artist explores the undulations of naked bodies to express their full erotic dimension. A real gem. For the exhibition, he also presents a series of sensual nude artworks in color of rare delicacy.

For the very first time, the Daniel Maghen Gallery is showcasing the work of Thimothée Montaigne with an exhibition dedicated to his best-seller: 1629 or L'Effrayante Histoire des naufragés du Jakarta. A gifted illustrator in the tradition of the great realist artists, Montaigne demonstrates the extent of his talent with two stunning black-and-white albums. All the ingredients are there: expressive drawings, immersive settings, cinematic editing... Montaigne draws us into this maritime adventure with gusto. He delivers extremely detailed drawings that serve the narrative, with original pages entirely rendered in Indian ink and breathtaking storm scenes. Thanks to this diptych, in which he is accompanied by one of the most popular scriptwriters, Xavier Dorison, Montaigne has reached a real milestone in his career as an artist, and it is a feast for the eyes. This series reveals the full talent of this Franco-Belgian comic art phenomenon.