The exhibition on Enrique Breccia in Venice
An exhibition dedicated to the works of the Argentine cartoonist Enrique Breccia will be held from 9 April to 8 May at the Villa Pisani National Museum in Stra, in the province of Venice.
The exhibition will present more than twenty original tables of the three stories collected in the volume Trip to Venicethat Breccia dedicated to the city of Venice, as well as other various tables that will retrace the author’s long career.
Trip to Venice And published by the Venetian publishing house Remer Comics simultaneously with the celebrations for the 1600 years of Venice. It presents three short stories written by Barbara Pilon and drawn by Breccia that interpret the city of Venice between reality, history, dream and fantasy. From the delirium of a friar who thought he had discovered the world to the journey of someone who truly discovers the world, passing through the daydreams of an old fisherman.
“Even more than its singularity, which makes it unique in the world, I have always been struck by the enormous weight of its historical heritage as a gateway between East and West”, said Breccia in a press release regarding the book and the city of Venice. . «The events that make up the volume are dedicated to as many protagonists of Venetian history. They are very worked pages and they took time, not only to draw them but above all to try to tell the mood. In the three stories there is a profound poetic and humanistic sense that represents a real challenge for graphic interpretation. And this gratified and stimulated me a lot. “
Enrique Breccia, son of Alberto, another great of world comics, was born in 1946 in Argentina. He made his first work in 1968 when he illustrated Che – A life in revolt, a biography of the revolutionary Che Guevara written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld. In 1972 he began his collaboration with the English publishing house Fleetway, drawing the comic Spy 13 under a pseudonym, and then a series of war stories for the Italian magazine Linus. His best known collaboration in Italy is the one with the screenwriter Carlos Trillo, with whom he realizes El Buen Diosimmediately followed by Alvar mayorhis most famous character, Robin of the starsthe surreal Los Viajes del Marco Mono And El Reino dell’Azul.
In 1983 he drew Ibáñez written by Robin Wood, and, the following year, El Sueñero and El Cazador del Tiempo of which he is also a screenwriter. He has also made several comic book adaptations of literary classics such as Treasure Island And Moby Dick. In 1987 you published the comic novel Lope de Aguirre. In 2000 he began his collaboration with American comic publishers, working on X-Force for Marvel, and for DC Comics. Worlds of the Legion And Batman: Gotham Knights.
In 2002 he drew the comic novel Lovecraft, on the life of writer HP Lovecraft written by Hans Rodionoff, for Vertigo. Also for the US publishing house in 2005 he became the main artist of the Swamp Thing series, drawing 22 issues until 2007.
Since 2012 he has lived in Italy. For Sergio Bonelli Editore you have made a story of Dylan Dog published in the eighth volume of Dylan Dog Color Festthen a summer special by Tex Willer (the so-called Texone) entitled Captain Jackon texts by Tito Faraci, published in June 2016. A few months ago a color special of Tex entitled Snake man.
The exhibition by Enrique Breccia, created by Venezia Comix and its publishing house Remer Comic, has the patronage of the Municipality of Stra, of Riff – Italian Network Festival of Comics with the technical partnership of Generali – Bortoli Assicurazioni and Atipico.
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