FOREWORD

The Central Vapeur festival plays for the first time at home with its book fair and two European exhibitions at the Coop, less than a kilometer from Germany. A program that extends throughout Strasbourg, the Grand Est and as far as Basel.

So, with the Rencontres de l’illustration and with its Berlin champion this year, Henning Wagenbreth, let’s cross the borders. The dialogue of drawings by Henning Wagenbreth and Samuel Bas recently graduated from the HEAR resonates with the dialogue of the graphic blocks of Tobot’s Cathedral or his workshop with HEAR students.

Last exhibition of the Europe Creative Invisible Lines project, Borders is the penultimate stage of a European tour that associates 12 young creators from 7 countries and their mentors between Venice, the Sudetenland, Strasbourg, Tabor (CZ) and Bologna. His black and white prints will cohabit with the color originals of the 24h of illustration. Borders brings together young Europeans, illustrators from Strasbourg and refugees who have shared their stories of borders. These lines of demarcation, often invisible, are freed from reality with the micronations invented by 40 illustrators on kakemonos to be seen in the streets of Strasbourg during the opening ceremony on Thursday. We will find them during the fair the last weekend hosted by Garage Coop and the CRIC.

Also to be followed is Elizabeth Holleville’s comic strip tour on the Quai des bateliers, a Battlestar,  a whole string of exhibitions along the Rhine and beyond: Demi-douzaine, Lisa Blumen, Élie Partouche, Marie Mirgaine and Amandine Meyer, Baptiste Filippi, Quentin Hell, Philippe Félix-Geoffray, Gianpaolo Pagni, Lika Nüssl, Fanette Mellier…

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See also in french Rencontres de l’Illustration de Strasbourg with our partners ; the Médiathèques of the  City of Strasbourg Eurométropole,  Strasbourg Museums, the Haute École des Arts du Rhin and the 5e Lieu.

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