Wed. January 11, 6:30PM
Hergé: a contemporary art
How do comic strips, which are at the 9th place of the pantheon of the arts, fit today in the historical context of contemporary art? A conversation with Bernard Hislaire, Rodolphe Janssen, Eric Leroy and Hubert d’Ursel.
Is Hergé a contemporary artist? Has Tintin, the little reporter whose adventures have been translated into over 100 languages, become a cultural icon?
We invite you, on the occasion of this stimulating debate, to discover a remarkable and unique drawing by the artist: the 1942 cover of the album Tintin in America. A cover with an astonishing longevity, as it is still broadly used today.
Estimated between €2.2m and €3.2m, this exceptional drawing will be previewed at Artcurial in Brussels from January 10 to 14, 2023, before the auction in Paris on February 10, 2023.
Hear more about the significance of comic strips for the contemporary art world in a conversation with Bernard Hislaire, renowned cartoonist who brought comics into the 21st century, Rodolphe Janssen, collector and gallery owner, son of Stephane Janssen (1936 – 2020) who was a great collector and close friend of Hergé, and Eric Leroy, Artcurial’s comics expert who has been involved in this unique market since its inception.
A roundtable moderated by Hubert d’Ursel, from The Fine Art Group.
We invite you, on the occasion of this stimulating debate, to discover a remarkable and unique drawing by the artist: the 1942 cover of the album Tintin in America. A cover with an astonishing longevity, as it is still broadly used today.
Estimated between €2.2m and €3.2m, this exceptional drawing will be previewed at Artcurial in Brussels from January 10 to 14, 2023, before the auction in Paris on February 10, 2023.
Hear more about the significance of comic strips for the contemporary art world in a conversation with Bernard Hislaire, renowned cartoonist who brought comics into the 21st century, Rodolphe Janssen, collector and gallery owner, son of Stephane Janssen (1936 – 2020) who was a great collector and close friend of Hergé, and Eric Leroy, Artcurial’s comics expert who has been involved in this unique market since its inception.
A roundtable moderated by Hubert d’Ursel, from The Fine Art Group.
speaker
Bernard Hislaire is a comic book artist and multimedia director. He started his career at the end of the 70’s in the newspaper Spirou with Bidouille and Violette, the first “melancholic” love story of the Franco-Belgian comic book.
At the end of the 90’s, he produces and directs one of the first experimental Web-Feuilleton on the Internet, Mémoires du XXe ciel, and at the same time he co-founds the avant-garde theater Ideal Standard.
Yslaire’s work has been translated into over ten languages, including Korean. It has been awarded some fifteen international prizes and is the subject of numerous international exhibitions. He is an Officer of Arts and Letters and president since 2017, of the Victor-Rossel Academy of Comics.
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Eric Leroy joined Artcurial in 2005 and created, under the impulse of François Tajan, the first department dedicated to comics. Under his direction, the department quickly became a world leader in its specialty, increasing from an annual sales volume of €1.3 million in 2005 to almost €10 million in 2021. The department holds numerous records, including the world record for a drawing by Hergé, The Blue Lotus, sold for €3.2 million in 2021 at Artcurial. A respected and pioneering expert, Eric Leroy has successfully promoted comics internationally through numerous exhibitions, including the first exhibition of a comics artist at the Cini Foundation during the Venice Biennale.
speaker
Rodolphe Janssen
Rodolphe Janssen has organized more than 250 exhibitions of contemporary art since he founded his gallery in 1991, with established and emerging artists mainly from Europe and the northern United States.
Over the past thirty years, Rodolphe Janssen has established strong relationships with collectors, contemporary art museums and art centers in Europe, the United States and Asia.
Rodolphe Janssen is a member of the Belgian Chamber of Art Experts and of the selection committee of Art Brussels and Art Cologne.
moderator
Hubert d'Ursel
Hubert d’Ursel is the director for the Benelux region at art advisory firm The Fine Art Group. Previously, he was the managing director of Sotheby’s Belgium and later the board director of Sotheby’s Europe as well as Head of Art Advisory at Bank Degroof Petercam. Hubert is an ambassador of BRAFA art fair, patron of Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts Brussels and a committee member of Brussels Art Square (BAS).
