Exploring The Fascinating Artworks of Mayalen Goust and the Mona Lisa Slums: A Review of "In the Name of Catherine"

2023-04-29 11:05:01

The Mona Lisa slums, Incardona pastiches black, Mayalen Goust fascinates

Take a step to the side and see differently… that’s the program for the weekend readings!

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The cover of “In the name of Catherine”. One of the most beautiful in the comic production of the semester.

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With Mayalen Goust, the picture is good

One of the most beautiful comic album covers of the semester. Razor-sharp framing, clean colors, eye games: Mayalen Goust was able to compose an attractive image, which makes you want to immerse yourself in “In the name of Catherine”, adaptation of the second novel in a children’s series by Julia Billet. Inspired by real characters, this fiction features a young woman determined to gain her independence in the immediate post-war period.

Excerpt from “In the name of Catherine”. We find the character of Catherine Colin, already staged in “Catherine’s War”.

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Still traumatized by Nazi atrocities, Rachel Cohen began a career as a photographer under her new surname of Catherine Colin. Talented, she is welcomed freshly into a society that is still very macho. She discovers feminism by going to portray Simone de Beauvoir. Then gets involved in the fight of blacks for their civil rights during a report in the United States…

Excerpt from “In the name of Catherine”. The coloring in deliberately restrained tones highlights endearing characters.

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Against a background of identity and resilience, the delicacy of Mayalen Goust’s line marries that of the subject. A designer to follow, whose line we had already appreciated on “Alicia prima ballerina assoluta”, by the Geneva screenwriter Eileen Hofer. Its studied framing and its coloring in voluntarily restrained tones highlight endearing characters. We are in for a saga.

“In the name of Catherine”
Julia Billet and Mayalen Goust
Ed. Rue de Sèvres, 176 p.

Visit the Louvre Museum differently, and not just for children

The bubbly historian Harman teams up with veteran Quentin Blake to dust off the Louvre with intelligence and humour.

Youth The facetious Quentin Blake has joined in on this very special guided tour of the Louvre, and the Briton is expected to draw mustaches at Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at any moment. No crime of lèse-majesté however is to be pointed out, but anecdotes galore, an uninhibited erudition and mischievous scribbles on all floors of the walls of the institution.

Alice Harman, documentary filmmaker and art historian, likes to ask the funny questions, like “Why is art full of naked people?” Aimed more specifically at young people, the explorer of the fine arts combines pragmatism and fantasy in the deciphering of around thirty icons from the Parisian museum. And it’s delicious to see confirmed that the Victory of Samothrace doesn’t care that she has no head or arms, as long as the goddess tastes the salty air. KEY

Briton Quentin Blake is famous for his terrific dark sense of humor. To be checked in the corridors of the Louvre…

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“The Mona Lisa and the others”
Alice Harman, Quentin Blake
Ed. Flammarion, 96 p.

A Grand Prix of the dark novel to rediscover

Joseph Incardona has published several outstanding books since “Lonely Betty”, where his talent as a storyteller is already expressed.

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It’s Christmas Eve in a small Maine town awash in snow as it prepares to celebrate Betty Holmes, the county’s first centenarian. The former teacher has not said a word for fifty-four years, after the disappearance of three boys for whom she was responsible. And here she is, after having vomited copiously on the festive cake, distinctly demands the arrival of the policeman who had taken care of the case at the time…

The Genevan Joseph Incardona (“The subtraction of possibilities”, “The solid bodies”) plays with the codes of the noir novel with fierce irony, then takes the story where it is really not expected, summoning a famous author. Released in 2010, the novel then received the Grand Prix du roman noir at the Beaune Crime Film Festival. It reappears accompanied by strong black and white illustrations about the Zurich native Thomas Ott. Between pastiche and homage, a dark atmosphere where the burst of laughter is never far away. Jubilatory. SHOUT