Courtyard Exhibition
The Ripoulin + R. Crumb



OX



OX uses mainly painting to create his images .The material often comes from
visuals used in the medias .This commercial imagery deturnded is sometimes recycled in a pseudo promotional circuit such as advertizing billboards .




Nina Childress
Frontier black and white



Frontier black and white is made from a small piece of a realistic painting treated with Photoshop. It is about the influence of digital treatment on the image, and here about the pixellized line by default. For Nina Childress, abtraction represents another possibility to work - through painting - at questions such as visual perception and style notion.




Manhu


photo Manhu




R. Crumb
My Troubles with Women



The collection of comic strips by noted cartoonist R. Crumb My Troubles with Women was first published by Knockabout in the UK and sold widely in high street bookshops for several years. When our printing ran out we made a co-oedtion with Last Gasp in the US and imported some of those copies. An overzealous HM Customs Officer seized them at Heathrow Airport because of 2 sexually explicit panels out of some 600 in the book. Coincidentally and by way of contrast, on the same day the seizure in England was made, we were displaying the book at the huge French Comic Fair in Angouleme and shaking hands with the French Minister of Culture. Customs insisted on taking us to court a year later where we won the case and now possess a nice letter from HM Customs stating which sexual acts we can show in comics.