La Métamorphose

by Barbara Canepa, Benjamin Lacombe, Marco Mazzoni

SOUS LA FORME D'UN LEPORELLO, BARBARA CANEPA, BENJAMIN LACOMBE ET MARCO MAZZONI CELEBRENT LE CYCLE DE LA VIE ET DE LA MORT A TRAVERS UNE VISION FANTASMAGORIQUE DE LA NATURE. Véritable célébration de la faune et de la flore, " La Métamorphose " déploie sous la forme d'un leporello qui se lit d'un côté, puis de l'autre, telle une boucle infinie, le cycle fascinant de la vie et de la mort. De petits têtards grouillent sous l'eau, se transforment en grenouilles virevoltant sur fond de nature fantasmagorique, avant de s'éteindre et de donner naissance à une vie nouvelle dont les racines émergent d'une terre nourricière. Porté par les textes de Barbara Canepa (au recto) et Benjamin Lacombe (au verso), le travail de Marco Mazzoni sublime la beauté de la nature en révélant un art du raffinement allégorique.

Genres: Art, Animals

54 pages, Hardcover

Published November 29, 2023

About the author

Born on the 19th January 1969 in Genoa. After reading Architecture at University she began working as commercial artist and as illustrator. In 1996 she started a collaboration with the Walt Disney Company: she took part to several creative projects as illustrator drawer and character designer. Together with Alessandro Barbucci in 1997 she gave life to the new magazine W.I.T.C.H. In fact they took part to the project’s editing they created the characters, the background, the graphic design and the color of a project that, since April 2001, has been having a huge success all over the world.

Since 1997 they have been working on the science-fiction saga Sky Doll published in France by Soleil and in USA (Heavy Metal and Marvel), and in over 18 countries in all. Acclaimed by the public and the critics in the recent years it has been awarded many times as best series of the year best color and design throughout Europe.

Eventually they are the graphic editors of the new series Monster Allergy a comics for kids published in 2003 by Soleil in France, in Germany by Egmont, and in 2004 in the rest of the world as a monthly magazine for the Walt Disney Company. Since January 2006 the series has been brought to TV as a cartoon produced by Rainbow Futurikom and Disney Channel. Purchased in 2005 by Warner Bros for the USA it is aired on Cartoon Network e M6.

Currently Barbara Canepa is working on Sky Doll 4 on the gothic series End which will be realized in collaboration with an Italian Disney artist Anna Merli. End is part of a new Soleil’s collection: Metamorphose, which she directs.

Lastly in 2007 she created a new publishing label: Venusdea. It’s a label independent of Soleil which starting in 2009 will feature international artists beyond the comics’ world. It will be edited all over the world in two languages and will contain brand new projects closer to the field of art than to comics.

--

View the Facebook fan page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Barbara...

Reviews

[on storygraph (macclown) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Going to be completely honest, I don't speak French. I bought this purely because Marco Mazzoni is my favourite artist ever and I buy every book they illustrate.

This is visually stunning, one long running piece of art folded accordion-style. Highly recommend for any art lover.

[Tablerose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Magnifique réflexion sur la mort