SurréAlice. Illustr'Alice
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The MAMCS and the Tomi Ungerer Museum – International Illustration Centre have joined forces to mount the exhibition « SurreAlice ». Borrowing its title from a text by Michel Remy, the exhibition deals with the reception of Lewis Carroll's work and its circulation in France and throughout Europe.
The Illustr'Alice exhibition, on the other hand, is devoted to illustrations from books on the Alice theme. It explores not only the world of children's books, in which Alice has been present since her first appearance in print, but also a perhaps less familiar style of humorous and satirical illustration. Many illustrators have taken over Alice's essential feature, nonsense, and adapted it in various modes of graphic expression.
The Illustr'Alice exhibition, on the other hand, is devoted to illustrations from books on the Alice theme. It explores not only the world of children's books, in which Alice has been present since her first appearance in print, but also a perhaps less familiar style of humorous and satirical illustration. Many illustrators have taken over Alice's essential feature, nonsense, and adapted it in various modes of graphic expression.
The theme also takes on specific aspects determined by the artists' geo-cultural sensibilities and is treated very differently in Central Europe, France or the British Isles. The Alice motif has also served in press cartoons as a satirical medium for the purpose of social and political criticism, a graphic tradition that developed from the publication in 1902 of Clara in Blunderland illustrated by J. Stafford Ransome. It is this formal diversity, as well as the universality of the theme, that the exhibition aims to bring out. In an exhibition of some 150 original works and books, from museum institutions, libraries and private collections from France and Europe, are presented famous names in illustration from the end of the 19th century to the 2000s, as well as illustrators now forgotten or simply unknown. The public will also be able to discover the preparatory drawings of Icinori and Monster Chetwynd, as well as the work of a new generation of artists.
Artists presented at the Tomi Ungerer Museum :
Dagmar Berková, Peter Blake, Antony Browne, Claire Bouilhac, Nicole Claveloux, F’Murrr, Folon, Henri Galeron, Alain Gauthier, Nicolas Guilbert, Tove Jansson, Dušan Kallay, Barry Moser, Thomas Nast, Markéta Prachatiká, Mervyn Peake, Borislav Sajtinac, Ronald Searle, Ralph Steadman, Roland Topor, Jiři Trnka, Leonard Weisgard and Alice B. Woodward …
Exhibition Curators: Barbara Forest, Chief Heritage Curator at MAMCS ; Thérèse Willer, Honorary Chief Curator at Musée Tomi Ungerer – Centre international de l’Illustration and Fabrice Flahutez, professor at Jean Monnet University Saint-Etienne and specialist in surrealism.
Artists presented at the Tomi Ungerer Museum :
Dagmar Berková, Peter Blake, Antony Browne, Claire Bouilhac, Nicole Claveloux, F’Murrr, Folon, Henri Galeron, Alain Gauthier, Nicolas Guilbert, Tove Jansson, Dušan Kallay, Barry Moser, Thomas Nast, Markéta Prachatiká, Mervyn Peake, Borislav Sajtinac, Ronald Searle, Ralph Steadman, Roland Topor, Jiři Trnka, Leonard Weisgard and Alice B. Woodward …
Exhibition Curators: Barbara Forest, Chief Heritage Curator at MAMCS ; Thérèse Willer, Honorary Chief Curator at Musée Tomi Ungerer – Centre international de l’Illustration and Fabrice Flahutez, professor at Jean Monnet University Saint-Etienne and specialist in surrealism.
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