Revealed in 2016 by Gallimard in France and was a film in 2023, Sylvain Tesson’s ebook On the Wandering Paths (Sur Les Chemins Noirs) is being printed in a brand new illustrated version, that includes the work of Belgian illustrator François Schuiten.
30 of his 43 unique drawings for the brand new publication are on present in a free exhibition that has simply opened on the Gallimard Gallery, very close to to our inns.
You might properly know the novel On the Wandering Paths by Sylvain Tesson. Possibly you’ve learn the ebook, perhaps you caught the French movie, however you’ve by no means skilled it like this, by means of the gaze of François Schuiten, utilizing the scraperboard approach.
The origins of the ebook are essential. In 2015, Tesson determined to stroll throughout France from the southeast to the northwest, by way of the smallest of paths. The trek reworked him, coming a yr after a critical life-threatening accident that he himself provoked whereas drunk. The stroll gave him the time to consider his life, and certainly life usually.
Schuiten has now taken this story as inspiration for a sequence of photos closely that includes the interaction of shadow and light-weight, little question symbolising the creator’s inside journey of questioning the significance of life and the choices we make throughout it.
This new ebook (168 pages, 43 illustrations, 35€) was printed final October, and also you’ll discover it immediately on the Gallery, or you may order it from a close-by impartial bookshop (simply enter your French postcode).
The exhibition additionally presents among the artwork for buy, with a restricted version model (100 copies solely) accompanied by a giclée print numbered and signed by Sylvain Tesson and François Schuiten. The field set is accessible on the Gallery for 350€.
Two tremendous artwork prints and two silkscreen prints (obtainable as a restricted version of 30 and 50 respectively, numbered and signed by the artist) are additionally available for purchase, though the internet web page for the exhibition doesn’t give the worth.
The exhibition François Schuiten illustrates On the Wandering Paths by Sylvain Tesson is on the Gallimard Gallery (right here) till 18th April 2026
Open Tuesday-Saturday, 1-7pm
Free!
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