An architectural tale - 04-07-2006
Early in May I've held a lecture on ways and means of further architecture development at the Minsk TU, and used the Obscure Cities as one of my three key references. This was a part of a 2-week workshop, and the end results, an "architectural tale" can be found at: http://community.livejournal.com/sesam006ru/4836.html#comments Later, a book would be published. As for my text, I've just uploaded it: http://mitya.ebbs.net/Ruinenlehre.pdf
Mit freundlichem GruĂ - D.Suchin
Dipl.Ing.Arch.
Berlin-Rotterdam
SCHUITEN & PEETERS: CITIES OF THE FANTASTIC - 11-01-2006
In Belgium people have a nickname for the urban planners' disease: 'Bruxellisation'. Take a stroll beyond Brussels' medieval marketplace and you'll quickly understand why. In their eagerness to create a modernised capital fit for the Euro-bureaucrats, the city's authorities permitted the wholesale demolition of many historic sites and in their place blighted the centre with soulless towering office blocks. How can planners and architects become so removed from reality, that they forget about the effects that their environments have on the human beings who have to live in them?
See http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/012_schuiten/012_schuiten.htm
The Maison Autrique hosts a LITTLE NEMO exhibition - 05-10-2005
On the occasion of the publication of two new books :
Little Nemo, 1905-2005
Un siĂšcle de rĂȘves
Les Impressions Nouvelles
Little Nemo in Slumberland
So many splendid Sundays !
Sunday Press
Exhibition in the Maison Autrique
sept. 30, 2005 - jan 8, 2006
Wednesday until Sunday, between 12 and 18 o'clock (admission until 17.30)
This exhibition will give you one of the rare opportunity to gaze at original Little Nemo panel pages by Winsor McCay, along with an outstanding tribute by some of today's foremost cartoonists.
Luminas no 18 - 24-09-2005
Dear obscurophiles,
Issue 18 of Luminas is now on line. http://luminas.ebbs.net/luminas-web/luminas18/luminas1801.htm
Happy reading!
Sylvain St-Pierre
Schuiten Peeters exhibition in Amiens, 2nd of July to 28th of August 2005 - 30-07-2005
In the course of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the death of Jules Verne, Amiens Metropole, with the collaboration of the "On a Marche sur la Bulle" association, who organizes the Amiens Comics Rendez-Vous, presents a major Schuiten / Peeters exhibition, called At the doors of Utopia, from Jules Verne to the Cites Obscures. This exhibition will take place frome the 2nd of July through to the 28th of August 2005, inside the Jules Verne Circus, a circus made of metal and stone that Jules Verne knew, and of which he pronounced the opening speech while he was elected at the City Council, back in 1889.
This event comes as a new element of a link that is already strong betweeen Schuiten, Peeters and the city of Amiens. For example, François Schuiten has already made two drawings for Amiens, one in 1985, that dealt with the evolution of the city center, and the other one in 2000 that took place inside a project called "The Amiens Cathedral seen by comics artists". Samarobrive, a city that exists within les Cites Obscures, is the former roman name of Amiens. And, last but not least, Schuiten works nowadays on the renovation of the house of Jules Verne, that is due to open to the public by the end of 2005.
On this particular occasion, François Schuiten has created an original drawing, of which we edit a luxury version, a lithography, numbered and signed by the artist, with a size of 48cms * 69,5 cms, that can be ordered by correspondence.
You can see details of this operation, the press book and a large size file of the affiche, at the address http://bd.amiens.com/voyage_en_utopie_16.html