November 25, 2019 – January 11, 2020
Opening Reception
Monday, November 25, 2019 | 7 PM – 10 PM
Alliance française de Manille Gallery
209 Nicanor Garcia Street, Bel-Air II, 1209 Makati
Alliance Française de Manille and the Embassy of France to the Philippines present the print exhibition:
From Obscure Cities to Futuristic Cities by Benoît Peeters and François Schuiten
The opening reception will be held on Monday, November 25, 7pm, in the presence of M. Benoît Peeters.
Please RSVP to tzapanta@alliance.ph.
This exhibition is also supported by the Institut Français and the Manila Bulletin.
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ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
Comics have always made references to architecture, but François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters made the latter the center of their work. Playing with signs of past modernity, the series Cités Obscures
(Obscure Cities) portrays a postfuturistic era where the fabrics of society and time strata intertwine. Bordering the line between utopia and dystopia, the works of Schuiten and Peeters help us imagine the cities of today and tomorrow.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Benoît Peeters was born in Paris in 1956. After completing his undergraduate program in philosophy, he pursued post-graduate studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes under the direction of Roland Barthes. He is a holder of the HDR (Habilitation à diriger la recherche, Qualification for research director). He and artist François Schuiten are the creators of the renowned comic series Les Cités Obscures, which has been translated into a number of languages. This series notably won the Manga Grand Prize at the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2012. He also published novels, essays, and the biographies of people along the lines of Hergé, Jacques Derrida, and Paul Valéry. He is currently working on a book coauthored by French chef Michel Guérard.
