2023-12-03 19:15:00
the essential As part of the “Toulouse s’illustre” exhibition, Pierre Maurel chose to represent the city taking inspiration from a famous game.
For him, it will be a Game of the Goose! The illustrator Pierre Maurel offers a single drawing as part of the exhibition “Toulouse s’illustre”, which is being held at the Bouquières gallery until December 9. In its farandole of vignettes, a little mouse jumps from one box to another. “It all starts on the edge of a sidewalk where she almost gets run over by an electric scooter. Its course continues at the Musée des Augustins, on the Place du Capitole, at La Daurade, to end in the Garonne, via the sewers, where you can see lots of things buried in the mud,” explains the illustrator.
In reality, Pierre Maurel subtly subverted the Game of the Goose to invent a mini-comic book, in keeping with the times, funny and rhythmic, which features the Pink City. “I don’t know how to make a drawing on my own, like the others. Me, I’m lost. Furthermore, it doesn’t interest me because I only do comics,” explains Pierre Maurel, who for once managed to fit “several drawings into one drawing. And it’s the first time I’ve done something in color,” he adds.
In any case, he found a great pretext to represent the main monuments of Toulouse. Some very well-known people should even recognize themselves in his drawing entitled “Grettings from Toulouse”.
Michel, his hero
In the Bouquières gallery, Pierre Maurel discovered with happiness and delight the drawings made by his exhibition partners, who, like him, had carte blanche to draw Toulouse. “There are really drawings that are out of the ordinary. It’s a very cool project because I know all the participants and their work. It makes me happy to be part of it.”
Originally from Narbonne, the 46-year-old illustrator has lived in Toulouse since 2016, after having used up his pencil leads in Paris and Brussels. Author of around fifteen albums, he is preparing to release a new opus in his Michel series. “I’m on the fifth. The next “Michel and the Battle of Dombarelles” is nominated for the Angoulême festival. His hero is a radio reporter who does side jobs to eat. “It’s inspired by what I experienced as a comic book author except that I didn’t want to talk directly about myself,” he adds. In addition to designing albums, Pierre Maurel gives lessons at the Condé school, behind the Cartoucherie. A food job “but also pleasant” this time.
“Toulouse s’illustre”, at the Bouquières gallery, 33 rue Bouquières, until December 9, every day from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., with works by Inbar Heller-Algazi, Romain Bernard, Paul Burckel, Lilian Coquillaud, Fräneck , Ghadi Ghosn, Suzanne Gomont, Simon Lamouret, Antoine Maillard, Pierre Maurel, Delphine Panique and Zelda Pressigout.
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