A portrait in exchange for a dream. This is how Baudoin and Troubs, accosting people on the street, facing Mexico's Ciudad Juárez portray, perhaps the world's most dangerous city, where murders of women and drug-related violence are the daily bread. However, through their eyes, the border city is bursting with life and dreams.
Viva
The origin of life is on the novel by Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, 2666, which revolves around the mysterious murders of more than 400 women in Ciudad Juárez. His reading was the germ Baudoin encouraged to undertake the journey to the border town, with Troubs to reflect and make known through his drawings that stark reality, and try understand. However, collecting the testimonies, the hopes and dreams of the villagers were not only aware of the brutal reality of Ciudad Juarez, but also a generous and welcoming city.
"I like to travel," "I paint", "No more poverty," "Walking around the city without fear," "grow old." A drawing, a dream. A drawing, a dream. Looks full of hope, smiles who believe in life. And is that the main engine of the portraits of Baudoin and Troubs is this, reflect on the role beyond the violence, suffering and death, especially no life, and they want celebrate. Viva
life will be published in Mexico by Sixth Floor (May 2011) and in France by L'Association (September 2011). Baudoin and Troubs be present in the Barcelona Comic Fair, from 14 to 17 April, thanks to the effort of Astiberri, Embassy of France, and Ficomic SD.
Edmond Baudoin was born in Nice in 1942. After studying at the School of Decorative Arts in adolescence, act as an accountant before returning to the drawing in 1971. In 1992 and 1997 Alph'Art won the International Comics Festival Angoulême for Best Screenplay for ACO and Couma Travel (Astiberri, 2005) respectively. Piero (Astiberri, 2007) earned him the award for best album at the festival in Sierre 1998. Although free drawing style and the original construction of his works may seem confusing, just read the stories of Edmond Baudoin to enter his universe. They regard his childhood in the postwar period, when he spent most of his time drawing with his brother Piero. He speaks of his mother in the poussière Éloge and emancipation when he decided to leave her accounting job to pursue his passion for the journey.
Arlerí In (Astiberri, 2009), the artist remembers everything he knows of love, of feeling love and physical love, through the conversation between an old painter and his model. In his meeting with Fred Vargas, an internationally successful creative writing novels, comes The four rivers (Astiberri, 2009) a permanent dialogue between the writer and artist, each contributing their own wealth through expression. In Nice Salad (Astiberri, 2010), Baudoin reveals as only he knows the more intense feelings of his characters, the beauty of women and their deep love for them.
Troubs (Jean-Marc Troubet) born in 1969 in Pessac (France) and artistic forms in the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse and then in Angoulême. Albums began publishing in 1994. The autobiography is the fundamental aspect of the work of Troubs, which recounts his experiences living in France and his travels around the world, which links you to the comics journalism or social realism (including Walkatju about his trip to Australia or Manao Sary on Madagascar). The most important tool Troubs are travel books, which constantly draws from which the definitive work moves to his portraits of places, people and landscapes.
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